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Avid DVD with 16:9 footage
I have Avid DVD (sonic dvdit 6 pro) and I am working with 16:9 footage that I would like to keep 16:9 without having to format it to 4:3 to show on a 4:3 TV. I have seen DVD’s with the option to have widescreen or fullscreen all on one disk. Surely these guys aren’t burning two different sequences? Is there anyway with ANY DVD program you guys know of that you can do this without having to reformat it in post?
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3 Replies
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If you encode it as anamorphic 16:9, the DVD Player itself has settings to display it as 16:9 full height, letterbox or center crop (4:3). If you don’t like the default center crop of 4:3, then you do need to create two master encodings.
anything 24fps
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What if I were to format it or even capture it as 4:3 letterbox – would that allow widescreen tvs to display it as 16:9 as well without the black bars on top and bottom?
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If you create letterboxed video, a 16×9 display will have black bars on top, bottom, left and right sides. The only way to deal with that is to enable the zoom mode on the display to fill up the screen. That causes a 33% loss of resolution, plus any encoding artifacts will become much more obvious.
Most owners of 16×9 displays avoid letterbox DVDs like the plague!
The DVD spec provides all that is needed to play 16×9 anamorphic video correctly on all displays.
Bill Stephan
Senior Editor/DVD Author
USA Studios
New York City
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