Shot in 16:9? Must've been that the footage was filmed with the 16:9 wide mode on the camcorder set to on. What this does is squish the footage you film horizontally so that when it's stretched to 16:9 it'll look correct, with objects having the same width as if the footage was shot in 4:3 and encoded as such, such as resizing the 4:3 filmed footage to 1440x1080 with a PAR of 1:1. As the raw .avi file would have an AR of 3:2
What is needed is to give the footage an Aspect Ratio flag of 16:9, or if you'd want to resize the footage for YouTube for example, resize it to 1920x1080 with a Pixel Aspect Ratio of 1:1 (square pixels)
Here is an example of footage that was filmed with 16:9 wide mode set to on and resized to be 4:3 and 16:9. As you can see, the 4:3 version is incorrect, with the humans appearing too skinny. While with the 16:9 version they appear wider and overall look more correct, now they are not too wide (as in footage shot in 4:3 stretched to 16:9) but instead the width of everything would match what the footage would look like if it was filmed with 16:9 wide mode set to off and encoded with a 4:3 AR, so pretty much the default settings. You film in 4:3, you encode to 4:3, you film in 16:9, you encode to 16:9.
Saved with an Aspect Ratio of 4:3 -
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Saved with an Aspect Ratio of 16:9 -
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