• DVD Authoring

  Menu – 4×3 or 16×9

  Posted by Stacy Formby on October 17, 2006 at 10:43 pm

  In designing a menu for a SD disk with a widescreen anamorphic feature, should the menu be 4×3 or 16×9? Customer agrees that the letterboxing of the feature is “good” on 4×3, but wants the menu full sized. If the menu is 16×9, it will automatically letterbox if played on a 4×3 setup. If 4×3, it will pillar box on a 16×9 setup. Right? So we have to choose?

  Guy1234 replied 18 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Pierre-luc Pare

  October 18, 2006 at 3:38 am

  You got it. You better use 16:9 letterbox, letterbox menu on 4:3 is far more acceptable than pillarbox menu on 16:9.
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  Stacy Formby

  October 18, 2006 at 4:22 am

  Is there no way to make the menu itself anamorphic, so that it auto-fits? Using DVD Studio Pro, btw….
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  Roman Melekh

  October 18, 2006 at 5:28 am

  Try use Adobe Photoshop, this is help how to create 16:9 LB menus:

  16:9 Menu Tracks
  When 16:9 Widescreen content is played, DVD players automatically resize it for viewing on standard 4:3 televisions. In doing so, black bars are added at the top and bottom of the screen, so the image
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  Guy1234

  July 24, 2007 at 12:02 am

  I’m having trouble with this. I have the 2 subtitles in dvd studio pro 4 but then how do I set it up so the dvd player chooses the correct aspect ratio. I assume it’s with scripts… but i’m not well versed in scripts.

  could some one help me out please??

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