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What can I expect when I produce graphics that will be played on a widescreen plasma hd tv?
My friend who I am producing the graphics and dvd for (see my post about the 80’s stuff below) has a number of wide screen tv’s and just got this new plasma widescreen in the 32 inch range i believe. Anyways just out of curiousity will the plasma tv stretch the video to fit the screen or will it be cropped at the 720×480 mark leaving black areas on the sides? When I was at his house, he switched to a channel on his tivo that cropped the sides off on his widescreen tv. Is this to be expected ?
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I’ve done widescreen DVDs in DVD Studio Pro, where you set a flag (in DVD SP) for widescreen, and the picture adjusts itself. On 4:3 TVs, the show is letterboxed, and on widescreen TVs, it fills the screen. Maybe your DVD authoring app has that flag.
So create a DVD and test it. 🙂
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You mentioned HD in your title, but mentioned SD resolution. If you are working at HD resolution, it’s 16:9 anyways. If it is SD, then like Steve said do your graphics in 16:9 and make a 16:9 SD DVD. But set the playback DVD in 16:9 mode as well. For example my little Sony DVD player if you turn it on w/o a disk in it, you can get to menu pages to set it to 16:9. So when it has 16:9 material on it, it will be properly displayed on the screen.
If you do your graphics at 4:3, then yes you will have to set the Plasma to 4:3 but you will get cropped sides (How I watch SD TV). But you can, if it doesn’t bother you, set it to “Full screen” which stretches the image (like you usually see in Bars where they play sports and news streched out) which drives me nutz but apparently doesn’t bother many ppl.
Side note, make sure your graphics never stall on any one image for more than a brief moment or after your graphics loop on it for a while you can seriously damage the screen from permanent images being left on it. A buddy tried to sell me some Plasmas cheap that had been in a bar. We turned them on but to a black image and I could see the stripes from the CNBC Stock ticker permanently in the image. No deal.
Chris Smith
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hmm very intresting..
Here is a theory…I was thinking of doing two versions, one for SD and HD WS .. I mean the original source images are going to be the old 80’s videos, there isn’t much I can do to enhance it using premiere or after effects. The graphics will be done in after effects, and dvd built in encore, so there will be a few buttons and video preview thumbnails running for 30 seconds before looping. What I am thinking is that I could loop the menu selection for about 30sec x 10loops= 5 mins then it auto plays the entire disc then returning to the main menu for another 5 minute loop. Im sure 5 mins wont burn in the menu selections. what do u guys think?
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