How to shoot widescreen (16:9) video
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4. Shooting in 4:3 but framing for 16:9, followed by cropping in post-production.
This simply involves shooting in the 4:3 aspect ratio but framing for the 16:9 aspect ratio, with a view to anamorphizing it in post-production. Of course, you need some means by which to frame accurately: some cameras offer the option of displaying 16:9 guidelines in the viewfinder, or you can mask a monitor appropriately to help in framing. This technique is known as "shoot and protect."
The raw footage can be anamorphized by vertically stretching it by a factor of 133.3%, which can easily be done with most video editing programs.
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