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export FCP project to adjust to different televisions
I´m editing a video for an amateur talent show and the contestants and their families want to purchase copies. However, I´m not sure how best to export the DVD to play on different types of tvs. Is there a way that I can format it to adjust to whichever set it is on, be it 16:9 or 4:3? The footage is shot and captured in 16:9. I have been trying to export 16:9, but it keeps showing up squished in 4:3 format when it is in iDVD. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! I am in Europe using PAL by the way.
-Adrianne
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You export your 16:9 project.
Compress it in Compressor for DVD using the Best Settings and 16:9.
You send that to DVD Studio Pro and make your DVD.
The video will play letterbox on a 4:3 TV and wide screen on a widescreen TV.
This has been covered dozens, if not hundreds of times on this very forum. In the future use the Search Function and you’ll find your answers immediately.
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Actually, I did a search and only found info about changing 4:3 to 16:9. I must have used bad keywords. My apologies. The problem seems to lie in that when I send the final cut file to compressor, I don’t see anywhere to set the widescreen properties. I am using compressor 3.0.3. Thank you for your time and suggestions.
-Adrianne
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Adrienne,
After dragging and dropping one of the DVD presets onto the QT video that you’ve imported into Compressor, you will see both an audio and video setting. Click on the video setting to select it, and the the Inspector window to your right will show six rather cryptic B&W icons. Click on the 2nd icon, which is the “Encoder” tab and you will see several tabs open, the first being “Video Format.” Under that one, the third item down is “Aspect Ratio.” Click on the little button to the right to activate it, and then set the dropdown to 16:9.
Also, if you practice using the Help feature you can become adept at finding most of these features in just seconds.
Hope this helps…
David
David Roth Weiss
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Thanks David. I see what you are talking about. One other question, probably very dumb. I see an option for pan, letterbox, or pan AND letterbox. Is the pan AND letterbox option what allows you to watch the project on both widescreen and standard televisions? If not, is there something else in particular I need to do to ensure it will adapt? Thanks again for your time.
-Adrianne
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[adrianne williams] “I see an option for pan, letterbox, or pan AND letterbox. Is the pan AND letterbox option what allows you to watch the project on both widescreen and standard televisions?”
Nope, that’s what setting to 16×9 does. Its part of the so called “DVD spec” that sets a flag that the authoring program should see automatically (sometimes you need to set it manually) that will make the DVD automatically play 4×3 letterboxed on an SD TV and 16×9 on a widescreen TV.
BTW, sometime when you’re feeling adventuresome, checkout the pan and letterbox settings so you know what they do. Like most other buttons in FCS, they don’t bite…
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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