Yeah, marking DV/DVCPRO as 16:9 in Streamclip worked fine when I was reviewing the clips in QuickTime Player -- everything looked fine. But iMovie insisted on importing them as 4:3 and then pillarboxing them. I never pushed farther than that with it, because there was image distortion during that import, and I just couldn't see it turning out satisfyingly in the end.
I played around with Streamclip settings a fair bit, and settled on exporting with AIC at 854x480, which seemed to have comparable image-quality to the original. I haven't had any stray quality problems that I've been able to notice. (Short track record, though.)
Nothing has ever been fully stable for me, but some things are more stable and other things are markedly less stable. AIC, so far, has been in the "more stable" category. As near as I've been able to figure, poking around the web, AIC was designed to be used during the intermediate stages of making a video, i.e., during editing.
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Date: 2013-01-17 11:26 pm (UTC)I played around with Streamclip settings a fair bit, and settled on exporting with AIC at 854x480, which seemed to have comparable image-quality to the original. I haven't had any stray quality problems that I've been able to notice. (Short track record, though.)
Nothing has ever been fully stable for me, but some things are more stable and other things are markedly less stable. AIC, so far, has been in the "more stable" category. As near as I've been able to figure, poking around the web, AIC was designed to be used during the intermediate stages of making a video, i.e., during editing.