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Aspect Ratio?
Hi all,
I’m getting the standard “The aspect ratio of this file is not supported by DVD” error that seems to be popping up a lot. Does anyone know if all files in a project have to have the same aspect ratio for it to work? If so, then that’s my problem right there. (My movie file is in 16:9, but an interview file is in 4:3.)
Thanks!
Celene
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17 Replies
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What resolution are you rendering to? When you say that your movie is 16:9 but an interview is 4:3, do you mean that the interview, which is in your movie is a different aspect ratio? If this is the case, it should just stretch the video to the other aspect ratio. NTSC DVD’s support 720X480 resolution, whether it is 16:9 or 4:3. What makes one 16:9 vs. 4:3, is the pixel aspect ratio, which is set to 1.2 for 16:9, and .9 for 4:3. If you are importing a different resolution than this, that may be your problem (unless your project is PAL).
Heath
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Hi Heath! Thanks for the fast reply!
What resolution are you rendering to?All of my dimensions are set at 720 x 480, though is there somewhere to set the resolution it renders to?
When you say that your movie is 16:9 but an interview is 4:3, do you mean that the interview, which is in your movie is a different aspect ratio?
Sorry, I should have specified. Of the DVD, there are several files/timelines. One is called “movie”, the next called “outtakes”, the next called “interview”, etc. “Movie” and “outtakes” are both 16:9, but “interview” is 4:3. Is that doable? My menus are in 4:3 as well.
The weird thing is, it gives me the error on “outtakes”, saying it’s aspect ratio is unsupported, but “movie” renders fine, and “movie” and “outtakes” are exactly the same footage filmed on the same day from the same camera and both are in 16:9!
Thanks again!
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I don’t think there is any problem with having both 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios in the same project, but it’s been a while since I mixed the two.
What codec are you using on the video files you are importing into Encore?
Heath
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Hi Heath,
Yeah, I thought it wouldn’t be a problem combining 4:3 and 16:9, since it lets me do it without complaining at time of building the DVD. Though I’ve seen problems where it didn’t complain about things wrong before…
I’m not sure on the exact codec, but I can check. I rendered everything through Premiere Pro 3, so I’m using whatever the default is there. I’m guessing/hoping they work together.
All my files are currently .mpg video and .wav audio. The thing that may be catching it up is that to fix another error I got when building my DVD, I converted all the .m2v’s to .mpg’s. It solved the issue I was having before (when it was not transcoding the video, but erroring), but now I’m getting this error. I’m wondering if it’s related. Though, the aspect ratio still shows 16:9, so it doesn’t look like it has a problem with it?
Sorry if I’m making this more of a headache than you bargained for! But thanks very much for helping me out… any other ideas?
Celene
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Encore supports both 16:9 and 4:3 video on the same disc.
The problem lies elsewhere – do you have any button transitions?
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Hi Joe!
That’s good to know!
No, I don’t believe I have any button transitions… I just have very simple text buttons that I copied from a pre-made layout in the program.
Can anything else be doing it?
Thanks again!
Celene
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What links to your “outtakes” timeline?
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You can get to ‘outtakes’ from the special features menu only. Nothing else is connected to it. When it finished, it goes back to the special features menu.
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Is the timeline in a playlist?
Also, if you select the video asset in the Project panel, and then choose File > Interpret Footage – what does its current setting read?
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I don’t think it’s in a playlist… not quite sure how to do that.
Also, I tried the “interpret footage” option before, but it’s greyed out. I read that it can only interpret footage on untranscoded AVIs. This is an MPEG. 🙁
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