16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio?

[Rodrigo Alva]

Correction : display on 16:9 on full screen but with HORIZONTAL bars on 4:3

[Tom Wolsky]

Export to QuickTime Movie, self-contained or ref. Take it to Compressor. Make your MPEG-2. Take it to DVDSP and in the inspector there set the DVD to display letterbox.

All the best,

Tom

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[Tom Wolsky]

Same answer. You set this in the disc inspector in DVDSP.

All the best,

Tom

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[Michael Gissing]

How are you viewing the DVD? Is on computer or a set top player? How is the playback device setup and what aspect ratio monitor are you viewing on.

The problem may be in playback and nothing to do with the DVD encode. And don’t transcode to H264 before making your mpeg2 in Compressor. Search this forum as the best workflow from FCP to DVD Studio Pro has been covered a gazillion times.

[Brendon Killen]

Make sure when your fcp sequence is in 16:9 and the 16:9 footage u have fills the canvas and ur 4:3 footage has vertical black bars (pillar boxed). If ur 4:3 footage is stretched out to 16:9, just remove attributes>distort.

Then when you export a quicktime and bring it into DVDSP make sure the track is displayed at 16:9

[Rodrigo Alva]

Thanks for you answers.

I’m checking my settings again and the footage was taken as anamorphic and displays as 16:9 on FCP,(meaning widescreen) I have no 4:3 footage on the timeline. My final product shows Black lines Top and bottom in both aspect ratios (4:3 and 16:9) I’m still working on have it as non bars on 16:9..:(

I’m using a Plasma Tv and a regular dvd as playback devices. I will check more on the forums for the right workflow, and some similar cases..thanks

Rodrigo

[David Roth weiss]

Rodrigo,

Why don’t you use the Cow features that let you embed either a still image or a video clip so we can see examples. This is after all the business of show. Right?

All the little icons under the word “Message:” have nice little functions that are well worth learning and using here as they help will us to help you, and allow you to show people exactly what you’re talking about.

Second from the right is one that looks like a motion picture camera — that’s for adding a video clip to your post. Just to the left of that is the one for adding a still. Got it?

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[Alan Okey]

It sounds to me like your DVD player or your monitor is not set up correctly.

First, check your DVD player setup menu to make sure that 16:9 TV/monitor is selected and not 4:3 TV/monitor. If the player is set up properly, I would next look at your monitor settings to make sure that the monitor is set to the proper aspect ratio mode for the respective content that is being played back. Make sure the monitor is set to “full” or “16:9” when you play back a 16:9 DVD, and make sure it’s set to 4:3 when a 4:3 DVD is played back*.

*UNLESS you have a newer DVD player that automatically pillarboxes (vertical black bars on each side of the image) 4:3 content when a 4:3 DVD is played back on a 16:9 monitor.