I have some footage of kickass cars doing kickass things. I want to share it with the world via this cool website called "YouTube" that I found.
Problem is, the YouTube only displays 4:3. Because my roommate in university took a minor in film, I can only shoot in 16:9 or he will hunt me down.
Obvious solution: letterboxing! But it's just not working out for me, I'm having serious problems that I think are related to interlacing.
So. The footage was shot on DV. I'm working with Premiere Pro 1.5. I've opened a new project in 4:3, imported my 16:9 clips and used the Effect Controls to set the scaling to 75%. This does exactly what I wanted in stills. But when I go to play it back, I get bad problems with horizontal lines. DivX just plain gives up and can't encode it. Am I missing something obvious? I don't want to hack up the video quality too much before the YouTube stomps all over it.
For reading this far, I give you an LS1 Miata autocrossing. In widescreen, of course. http://www.flyinmiata.com/video/files/Keith_run_6.divx, about 6.4 MB.
