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  16:9 HD footage to full frame 4:3 SD DVD

  Posted by Kyle Vernier on January 29, 2009 at 2:41 am

  I have a project where the footage is DVCpro HD 720 60 (Recorded to P2) and I need to make an SD DVD of the edited product.

  The footage was shot with a 4:3 full frame image in mind. But I’m having a difficult time creating a DVD in DVD Studio pro 4 that looks alright.

  I’ve tried a number of things but so far the only thing that has worked is using sorenson squeeze and cropping the 16:9 to 4:3 and and exporting an .mov and then importing into DVD studio pro. This produced a horrible image.

  Any suggestions? I created a 4:3 matte for the project and I could technically just export a 16:9 frame with pillars. But I’d really prefer not doing that. There must be a better solution that I’m just not thinking of.

  Thanks

  Kyle Vernier

  Noah Kadner replied 17 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Noah Kadner

  January 29, 2009 at 5:47 pm

  Drop into a 4:3 NTSC sequence in your NLE, export as uncompressed or directly to 4:3 NTSC MPEG2. Then make sure in DVDSP you’re dropping it into a 4:3 track. Should work fine- not going to look great on a 16:9 TV of course.

  Noah

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