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Hi,

First up, yes it's JonClark2 who's been on the forum for donkey's years here. The login fields were playing up so, just like when I transformed from JC to JC2, I decided to register another profile for myself - only to find that JonClark3 was already taken! So we're up to JC4 now.

Next up, apologies for not replying to the final few posters on the cine film thread - I've been soooo busy lately that there's not been much time for web surfing.

Anyway, to the problem. I tried out a couple of suppliers for my cine film conversion and eventually ended up using someone who simply re-recorded the projected film, ironically enough. The difference with this fellow was (PM me if you want his name) that he manually cleaned the cine film first, shot it under tightly controlled conditions and tided up the recorded footage afterwards. His footage was way ahead of the others in brightness and clarity.

My supplier also added two black bars at the sides of the recoded 3;4 footage to make it display correctly on a widescreen telly. If I plug my camcorder straight into my PVR, everything views perfectly. If however, I record his footage into iMovie 09 in widescreen format, iM9 takes his oblong 720x576 pixel recording (sized checked by exporting a still from the footage) and changes it to square pixels making it more akin to 4:3 footage. It also does this to the other footage from other suppliers. Does anyone know why it does this and how (if) it can be resolved?

As always, thanks in advance for any and all advice offered.

Cheers,

JC / JC2 / JC4

Looks like I've solved my own problem - I eventually got the video footage to import perfectly into iMovie. The solution seemed to be selecting the widescreen option BEFORE running the footage from the camcorder. Duh!