i believe that simply depends on your camcorder. our videos shot with our main camcorder look squashed in at 640x480 and the guys look natural and the way they looked to me in the studio at 720x480, which is what our capture program says they are.

btw, we have one here that shoots 640x480 and one that shoots 720x480.

Quote Originally Posted by Xstr8guy View Post
Hopefully you can clear this up for me Patti...

Shouldn't videos be displayed at 640x480 instead of 720x480 for the proper aspect ratio?

I use Vegas upon you recommendation and Vegas says that the video's original size is 720x480 but if I encode in that size, the aspect ration looks wrong. The video appears stretch out horizontally but 640x480 looks correct. Is this correct or is my aspect ratio screwed up?