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  •  Try this one thing for me. (0+ / 0-)

    Take a screengrab off of the Hillary ad on Youtube since it's not extra-stretched. Dump it into Photoshop. Select Image->Pixel Aspect Ratio...->D1/DV NTSC (0.9) Scale the images so they are the same vertical height and measure to see if they aren't within a pixel of the same width now. Set the top layer to Difference to highlight the edges.

    On my system they were well within a pixel of each other.

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    by johnsonwax on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 08:02:06 PM PDT

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    •  "Well within a pixel"? (0+ / 0-)

      I wish my monitor could display fractions of a pixel.  ;)

      No, I agree.  It's just a little odd that it would come up, since they were starting with interlaced NTSC source files and outputting an interlaced NTSC final product.  Why on earth would they ever be working in Square Pixels mode to begin with?  

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      by cartwrightdale on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 08:10:43 PM PDT

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      •  Your version of Photoshop (0+ / 0-)

        doesn't interpolate? Come on, stop being defensive.

        And I agree that it's odd that it would come up, but it's also odd that they would pick that EXACT aspect ratio when stretching his video, no? Stretching it by 11.1%? It's also odd that they would dump interlaced video on their website. There are lots of odd things that taken together tell me these people are winging parts of this rather than crafting some insidious plot.

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        by johnsonwax on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 08:24:22 PM PDT

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        •  Well, nit-picking here, but it wouldn't be a plot (0+ / 0-)

          so much as somebody playing around with different effects and settings and coming up with something that plays up the candidate's race, and then thinking that could be useful. Hell, they might be a racist who thought that those made him look less appealing without even realizing why--played the trick on themselves, in other words.

          Sloppy production and intent to play on racism aren't mutually exclusive. Occam's razor just happens to favor the sloppy production explanation.

          Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. -Barack Obama

          by klizard on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 09:01:15 PM PDT

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