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“Double letterbox” with WMV HD export.
I’m rendering a 1080i movie from PPRO 1.5.1 shot with the Sony Z1U to WMV 9 HD (1080i). It renders (slowwwlly), but the aspect ratio is wrong. It “letterboxes” the already 16×9 image to create a horizontally stretched and letterboxed image. There seem to be no obvious encoder settings to make this right. Any suggestions?
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Hopefully I can list all of the pertinent settings for you. This is how I would export to play on my AVeL Linkplayer2 to display on my Sony HDTV. And yes, it is quite slow. Around 8 times realtime on my system.
Start with the WMV9 1080 60i preset. Do not choose the anamorphic, just the plain one.
Under video, it is Windows Media Video 9 and I generally use a constant bit rate if the video is not an hour or more.
Under audio, I change from the 9.1 professional to the plain 9.1 because of the Linkplayer.
Under audiences, I select a frame rate of 29.97, a custom pixel aspect ratio of 4:3, a frame width of 1440 and a height of 1080. I move the bitrate settings to 8000.00 and 100. And the audio is set to 128kbps, 48KHz, stereo (A/V) CBR
If you are playing it on a PC, you might want to change to 1280X720 square pixels. That actually works just fine on a Linkplayer connected to an LCD or DLP TV with 1280X720 pixels. Saves file space since there is no need for more resolution than the HDTV can actually show.
Steven
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Thanks, Steven. I’ll try it out.
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