Another render to DVD question

[John Rofrano]

[Tim Maddoux] “Following instructions found on this forum the simple way is to render to BR, author in DVDA, create my BR then change settings in DVDA to DVD for my DVD’s.
When I do this I get black bars on both sides of the footage.
I have messed with changing the PAR but only with bad results.
What am I missing here?”

DVD Widescreen is not an even 16:9 like HD is. It’s a little wider which is why you see the black bars on the sides. They will hardly be noticeable on a TV where the edges are cut off anyway but if it bothers you, you will have to re-render in Vegas and tell Vegas to stretch the video (no not letterbox) and it will stretch the video slightly to eliminate the black bars. It doesn’t bother me and I’d rather not have my video stretched.

~jr

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[Tim Maddoux]

Thank you so much John!
Once I created a test DVD it didn’t seem to be really noticeable.
Also thanks for all you do on and for this forum. I’ve really learned a lot from you.

Tim

[John Rofrano]

[Tim Maddoux] “Once I created a test DVD it didn’t seem to be really noticeable.”

Yea, that’s what I’ve found. It didn’t make sense to me to stretch the video because it actually softens it just a bit and it’s not worth it when you really can’t tell on a TV.

[Tim Maddoux] “Also thanks for all you do on and for this forum. I’ve really learned a lot from you.”

Thanks for the kind words Tim. It’s really appreciated. I enjoy helping others and I’m glad that I can.

~jr

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[Kees Verwijs]

I found this post because I was looking for a solution to exactly this problem. I still see problems with both solutions mentioned above (re-render with stretch or keep the bars)