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How to convert a 16:9 movie to a 4:3 letterbox version?

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Suppose you have a 16:9 aspect ratio wide-format movie file and you want to make a version ideal for playing on a 4:3 device. Since you don't want to clip any of the image or distort the picture, so you want to make a letterbox version. That is, you want a 4:3 movie with black bars at the top and b…

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Newer versions of ffmpeg deprecate the "padtop" and "padbottom" options. To do it with the new version, use the same basic logic above. In my case, my original video was 720x404, but I wanted to encode 720x480 - padding the top and bottom. So per-ab…

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