changing the aspect ratio of 4:3 footage to see more thumbnail images in the browser
Just a workflow question. I have a bunch of WW2 era newsreels that I'm upscaling from 480 4:3 to 1080 16:9. I understand that to fit a 4:3 image into 16:9 frame I could either just leave it be and go with the pillarbox look, or scale up proportionally and crop losing 25% of the image above and below, or anamorphically stretch the upscaled 4:3 image an extra 33.33% to fit into the 16:9 frame.
But in this case, I'm thinking about horizontally stretching the 4:3 footage to 16:9 at the start so that when I bring the footage into Final Cut Pro, I'm able to see more thumbnail images in the browser in thumbnail mode since the 4:3 aspect ratio causes a lot of space to be wasted between thumbnail frames (see below). Of course, once the edit is done, the edited footage can always be horizontally squeezed back to 78%. Would there be anything technically wrong with this type of workflow?
