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How can I export a 16:9 anamorphic movie to work in a 4:3 aspect project?
I’ve been setting a comp to 864×583 with D4/D16 Standard (0.95) as the pixel aspect correction and then scaling the movie 93%.
But, there has to be a better way to set up the comp and render output settings so that I can just import the re-rendered clip from AE into DVD Studio Pro or iDvd without the stretching. Black bars would be fine but faking it with scaling doesn’t seem right.
Is there at least one answer? I’m just looking to make a project for view on a computer monitor.
Thanks
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Make a comp that matches the DV widescreen preset. Drag your widescreen movie into that comp. It should have no black bars. Render it. Drag the render into whatever compresses the movie to MPEG-2 for DVD. Make sure the DVD knows that the movie is 16:9. Burn the DVD.
When you play it, it should look fine on a computer.
Any questions?
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Ok, so I tried that. Now, should the movie when played in QuickTime not be vertically stretched? It is right now.
I don’t know if that means that upon burning a dvd at 16:9 will fix that but the clip straight out of AE is stretched.
I’ll have to add 4:3 stuff later so I’m experimenting to see if I should convert 16:9 to 4:3 or vice versa.
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Yes, Quicktime doesn’t compensate for non-square pixels, so the movie would look wrong in Quicktime. If you continue with my process you should be fine when viewing a DVD on a computer or TV.
If you have to add 4:3 stuff later, consider this:
– in a 4:3 project, 16:9 material is either letterboxed, or scaled up and chopped off on the sides
– in a 16:9 project, 4:3 material is either pillarboxed, or scaled up and chopped off top and bottom.Your choice … 🙂
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ok, thanks that worked great!
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