There are a few reasons why you'd want/need to letterbox your videos. However in this article, I present reasons for NOT leterboxing your videos. The two cases in which I feel letterboxing is not desired are as follows:
You want your HD videos (16:9 aspect) to look like Cinemascope film
One would think that of all things, getting your video to show in the correct aspect ratio would be something that just happens. In reality, we find however that this is not the case. The most common problem people seem to have is what I call a “squished” video. A squished