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  Vegas 8.1 /DVD Architect 5 Rendering Advice

  Posted by Ken Hower on May 15, 2009 at 6:16 pm

  Here’s my problem.

  I have video shot at 1920×1080 HD. I can render one test clip (5 min) at 1280 x 720 (720p) and burn to DVD from a DVD Architect 5 project. When displayed on my HD TV, the video fills the entire frame (full screen).

  However, when I render the entire video (90 minutes) in the same format (1280×720) and move into a DVD Architect project, the video exceeds the size of a standard (4.7gb) DVD, so DVDA shrinks to fit. Obviously, the video is now 720×480, and has a Letterbox around the entire video.

  So to solve this, I used a Double Layer DVD, 8.5gb and set up DVDA to NOT shrink to fit. The video was around 6.6Gb, leaving 2gb of free space on the DVD. However, when I played the DVD it STILL displayed with a letterbox around the entire video. Why is this?

  What setting am I messing up? I know by doing a 5 min test clip, it is possible to see full screen video. But when I attempt to do the entire 90 min video, I can not get full screen resolution.

  I’m baffled.

  Jordan Sweeney replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  May 17, 2009 at 12:17 pm

  Are you trying to make a DVD or Blu-ray? DVD is only 720×480 so there is no need to render to 1280x720p. You should just render to DVD Widescreen and it will fill your HD TV (although the quality will not be HD).

  ~jr

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  Ken Hower

  May 20, 2009 at 7:18 pm

  Thank you…I will try that.
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  Jordan Sweeney

  January 18, 2010 at 2:24 am

  How do I make it HD and still make it fir to TV? How would I render it?

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