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16:9 vs 4:3 Question
I have a movie that I made using Vegas and DVD Architect that I want to be widescreen. My question, put simply is: How can I make a widescreen 16:9 movie that plays widescreen on a 16:9 television AND plays widescreen on a 4:3 television (with black bars).
To get the video to fill a 16:9 television, I know that I have to render the video as 16:9 in Vegas. However, if I want my final DVD to play on both 16:9 and 4:3 television screens without being distorted (squished to fit on a smaller screen) how would I do this?
Is putting both a 4:3 and 16:9 version in the DVD Architect project the only way to accomplish what I want to do? Or will a 4:3 television screen/DVD player recognize a 16:9 video and output it as a letterboxed movie?
Any help regarding this confusing topic would be greatly appreiciated.
Michael
PS- As far as the factors that might relate to this: the render format of the video file, the DVD Architect project format, the television size, and the DVD player settings. -
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[michaeljmpsu] “if I want my final DVD to play on both 16:9 and 4:3 television screens without being distorted (squished to fit on a smaller screen) how would I do this?”
In DVDA, open the project properties and choose one of the widescreen options as the video format.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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As Gary says, make everything 16:9 and when its played on a 4:3 TV it SHOULD be autimatically letterboxed.
I have however, seen my widescreen video stretched to fill a 4:3 screen, making everthing distorted and thin. To help prevent this, I usually include a paragraph on the DVD case like this:
This DVD has been produced in Widescreen (16:9) format, and if
you have a Widescreen TV, the picture should fill the whole frame.
If on the other hand you are using a Standard Definition TV, the
picture should be -
Thanks so much! Everything works as it should now. I was hoping that there was some way the DVD player recognizes the letterboxing. This makes things so much easier.
By the way, I love this forum. I don’t know where I’d be without it! 🙂
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I had the problem of losing the side information of my video shot at 16:9 when played back on 4:3 tv’s. To fix this, I set the “Track Motion” to 640 x 427 (the computer will auto fill in the 427 if you leave the lock aspect ratio on).
Jeff
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