As most of my work is old video tapes, they are 4:3 fullscreen. I generally do each chapter project in 4:3 and then assemble them into a 16:9 project. I have experimented with 16:9 backgrounds for the side bars, using some from here, and often just a colored background that I vary in color over the project.
Today I was playing around with the effect I often see on TV, where they take the same video as in the 4:3 area, and just zoom it to fill the width and Gaussian blur it a bit, along with some change in contrast and intensity. Is there a name for that effect?
I can make it look like I want, but just not sure if I like it or not. Anyone have any experience doing this?