[OT] Why do so few people understand aspect ratios?

[David J Patrick]

On 10-05-27 02:07 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> The job went swell and everything looked great, but the next job, when I
>> went back to corporate headquarters, I saw the video playing and almost shit
>> myself; they had, in a later post stage, squashed the 16:9 to 4:3 (making
>> everyone stretched and distorted) and then added black bars to THE SIDES TO
>> make it 16:9.. total debauchery !
>> So if the big-brained Telus video team were such f'n idjits.. it's pervasive
>> stupidity.
>> djp
>
> ...but, if they just left it the way it was...I...
exactly; morons
>
> How did you not choke them??
I've found that choking clients, as much as they often need it, is 
counter-productive.
Instead, I just lost a bit of faith in humanity and reminded myself 
"it's a service industry, it's a service industry"
yes, a little part of me died that day,
djp
>

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