On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:01:24 -0800 Indian Maiden <theindianmaiden at gmail.com> wrote: > ffmpeg -y -i ./1080bars.mov -s 1728x864 -vf 'pad=1920:1080:0:0:gray' -ss > 5.00 -vcodec tiff ./test1/file%4d.tiff Perhaps this will do what I think you want: ffmpeg -y -i 1080bars.mov -vf \ "scale=1728:-1,pad=1920:1080:(1920-iw)/2:(1080-ih)/2:gray" \ test1/file%4d.tiff