16:9 footage shown letterboxed and pillarboxed on 16:9 tv

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16:9 footage shown letterboxed and pillarboxed on 16:9 tv

Posted by Danny L. on October 25, 2006 at 1:38 am

Hello everyone,

I can’t seem to find an answer to this.

I have 16:9 footage that I edited in a 16:9 project with Premiere Pro 1.5.

Once transfered onto a DVD it is displayed letterboxed and pillarboxed on my 16:9 HDTV. Just like if the movie was shown in 4:3 and then with black bars on top and bottom, resulting in a black frame around the picture.

The settings seemed okay when converting the footage and the 16:9 option is checked.

When displayed on a 4:3 tv, the footage is okay with black bars on top and bottom only.

Project resolution: 730×480
Pixel aspect ratio: 1.2

Any clue on this?

Thanks in advance,

Danny

Danny L. replied 19 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Chris Knight
October 25, 2006 at 4:23 am

How did you transfer it to DVD?
Is your DVD player setup to display anamorphic video on your widescreen TV? (all players have a setup menu to configure video output).
Danny L.
October 25, 2006 at 10:50 am

I transfered it to DVD using Adobe Premiere’s “Export to DVD” function and I also tried exporting it in .mv2 format to use it in a Adobe Encore project. It’s the same result in both cases.

Settings: NTSC DV 16×9 high quality 7mb CBR 1 pass

And for my DVD player, I didn’t find any setup menu but it plays anamorphic DVDs correctly.
Blast1
October 25, 2006 at 11:47 pm

[Danny L.] “I have 16:9 footage that I edited in a 16:9 project with Premiere Pro 1.5.”

What camcorder did it come off of?
Danny L.
October 26, 2006 at 10:13 am

A Panasonic GS-500
Blast1
October 26, 2006 at 7:35 pm

If you don’t have a mis-setting in your project some where it sounds like there could be letterboxing set on your DVD player, DVD player usually have Aspect settings, like “letterboxing, Pan and Scan, 16:9”, Different players have the functions under different titles on the remote, some have it under SETUP, some INFO , some DISPLAY, some just MENU.
Have you tried to playback the DVD with DVD player software on your computer to see if it does the same thing?
Danny L.
October 26, 2006 at 10:49 pm

I plays fine on my DVD player, and I changed the settings of my DVD player from 4:3 letterbox to 16:9 Wide.

Now the pictures is letterboxed and squished, but I have seen this problem on other threads.

Thank you very much for your help, I will continue searching this forum (which is very useful by the way)

Thanks again!

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