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Hi team,

My first post in the forums! I am an AV Integrator and am doing a Job for a school who had a very limited budget and is hoping to record their performances with a PTZ camera. The drawback is they could only afford the Sony EVI D80 option which is native 4:3 aspect. having this and a ceiling mic system running through a Vaddio AV bridge which outputs a USB connection for capture to a PC. All testing is fine using VLC as the capture software with the only issue being I cannot have the 4:3 feed manipulated to widescreen before capture (that I can see anyway) I am hoping there is a way to do this without having to rely on post production editing.

Can anyone advise on how/if this is possible. If they have to suffer pillarboxing then so be it, but I have a feeling VLC can combat this.

Any help is hugely appreciated!!!

G.

Hey G.

Fellow AV integrator here. Have you tried going into the advanced settings? Once you open Media and select the "Capture Device" tab, their should be a "Advanced Options..." button. The first option is Picture aspect-ratio n:m. It is set to 4:3 by default, but I have found you can change it to 16:9 for wide screen recording.

Pat