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16×9 & 4×3 on the same DVD
I need to make a DVD for an expo however some of the footage is shoot in 16×9 & some in 4×3.
If I make my main project in Vegas 4×3 and lay a mixture of 16×9 & 4×3 and then export the entire timeline as 4×3, will the plasma screen know when to set itself to the right format?
Should I maybe export each section in its right format like all the 16×9 footage as 16×9.mpg & then all the 4×3 footage as 4×3.mpg, rather than encoding the two formats as one large 4×3 file.
If I take that approach, what format should the DVDA project be? 4×3 or 16×9, or is it just not possible to have both formats on one DVD?
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The second thing you said was right. If you want it to recognize parts as 16:9, you need to render those parts out as 16:9. If you do it all as one 4:3 project it will be letterboxed and the screen will display it as 4:3 letterboxed down to 16:9. This means that on a widescreen TV, you’ll have the black areas on the sides to create the 4:3 area, then that signal will have two black bars on top and bottom encoded into the video to make it 16:9. This means only the very center of the widescreen TV will even be showing your video.
It’s generally fine to mix 16:9 and 4:3 on the same DVD, they just need to be kept as separate videos on that DVD (so that each is rendered from Vegas at the aspect it was filmed at). Though you could probably just use a playlist in DVDA to make them play one after another as if they were just one video.
–the Fiddler
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