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Exporting a 16:9 project
I have just finished editing a music video that I filmed in 16:9, and edited in premiere Pro as a 16:9 project.
When I export the project as an .avi, and use either windows movie maker or Nero to create a DVD, the footage does NOT play back correctly. When played back on a standard 4:3 TV or Monitor, the DVD made using Movie Maker Simply Stretches the image to make it full screen as opposed to having black bars on the top and bottom. When making the DVD using Nero, I selected to make the project 16:9, but when I play back the clip, the entire image has been shrunk down and there is a black box surrounding the whole thing. So in this case it is playing in wide screen, only it’s not filling out the screen at all.
How do I get my finished project to play full screen on a 16:9 TV or monitor, and make black bars top and bottom when played on a standard 4:3?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Will Gaffney
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5 Replies
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You’ll need to export it using the correct pixel aspect ratio (ntsc 16×9 has a 1.2 par.) This creates a 720×480 image with the entire 16×9 image squished into it. When the MPEG’s are made for the DVD, the flag for 16×9 will need to be set to indicate to the DVD player that the video is 16×9…the player then figures out what it should do based on it’s settings…add black bars to letterbox the 16×9 or unsquish it to fill a 16×9 set.
Erik
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You should use Nero 7 as previous versions have issues with 16:9.
Even better, use Premiere 2.0 or Encore 2.0. -
I use Premiere Pro to make my MPEG2 files – so if you do it that way too, make sure you’re using a 16×9 setting there. I import the MPEG2 files into Encore for authoring.
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Is MPEG just as good quality? What is the best format to maintain quality?
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MPEG is what DVD is. Any assets you import into encore (or other apps) and transcode will end up as MPEG files.
I tend to do all my transcoding outside of Encore, using procoder so that I can control and tweak various aspects of the encoding…I’ll create “elementary” mpeg streams (separate files for video and audio) and import them into Encore.
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