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aspect ratio
Hi there,
Somebody help me please. I have finished a short footage and exported it as a Quick Time Movie. The problem is that the aspect ratios don’t match. In the Sequence Settings, my aspect ratio is HD (1440×1080) (16:9), but after exporting and burning it to a disk, it appears like a 4:3 on my TV. What am I doing wrong?
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7 Replies
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Andrew,
how are you burning to disk? Are you using an HD or Blu-Ray disk? Also, what are the settings on your QT export? If you are burning to an SD disk and want to maintain aspect ratio, you’ll have to export a letterbox version of your timeline. Depending on your disk build/burn program some exports are better. If you use the “export using QT conversion” option, you can select an SD frame size and then click the option to maintain aspect ratio. This will not come out as a full-frame on an HDTV, but will maintain the aspect ratio. If you provide a bit more information, troubleshooting the problem would be easier.
1. What type of disk are you burning to?
2. What are your export settings?
3. What burn program are you using?Josh
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Explain the steps you took to export and encode for the DVD.
BTW…all DVD players will letterbox 16 x 9 source material. You don’t need to letterbox your material during export and encoding. You just need to do everything correctly, so the DVD player knows its 16 x 9 (and also make sure the DVD Player settings are correct).
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Right John. I forgot that most authoring programs have a 16:9 aspect setting; I haven’t mastered with those settings, so it slipped my mind. Thanks for the clarification!
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Sorry about the missing information. This is what I did:
I shot a footage, kept everything simple. I used an HD camcorder (Canon XH-A1), with HDV 1080i50 setup and 1440×1080, 16:9 aspect ratio. I exported the movie using Quick Time Movie with current settings selected. Then I burned the file onto a DVD-R disk using iDVD. When I play this disk in my computer, the aspect ratios are still the same but when I play it with my DVD Home Theater System, the two sides get cut off and it looks like the aspect ratio changed to 4:3. My TV is not widescreen, but how come when I put Indiana Jones widescreen in my DVD player, there is no problem with that? I hope you can help me. If you need any more info, please let me know. Thank you. -
If you exported a Quicktime Movie with current settings, that is correct. If you are saying that your Indiana Jones DVD plays in letterbox on your 4:3 tv, that means your DVD player settings are probably correct. It’s likely something is set wrong in iDVD. In the version I have (7.0.4), when you first open iDVD it asks you to select 16:9 or 4:3 for your new project….are you sure you selected 16:9? Older versions of iDVD did not support 16 x 9…so that could be your problem right there, if you are working with an old version.
I am not a big expert on iDVD….rarely use it. More familiar with DVD-SP.
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I use iDVD version 7.0.2 and have checked the settings. It is 16:9. It plays widescreen on my computer’s monitor, but it changes to 4:3 when I watch it on my TV (using the DVD player), and like I said it does not happen with other movies. Both widescreen and full screen movies play accordingly, except my video clip. Do you know what could be wrong?
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Can you manually set your DVD player to play it 16 x 9? Perhaps your DVD Player cannot properly detect the 16×9 flag on DVD-R and automatically switch.
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