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complicated aspect ratio scenario…
Hi all, I have a task which is confusing me. It’s about aspect ratios and everytime I try and work it out my head hurts too much! Please bear with me while I explain!
I made a 16:9 DVD for somebody. However they now want another item added to it that will only be played on a projector. This new item consists of material both in 4:3 and 16:9 but mostly 4:3. Now, this projector screen is 4:3 and they want to show the segment in 4:3 aspect ratio anyway and considering it will only get shown on this screen then I can make it with in mind (they want to avoid letterboxing too.) So, I can either resize 4:3 footage to match the 16:9 footage (of course it’ll be a compromise of quality vs streching) or I can make it all 4:3 (which makes sense as most of it is 4:3.
Ideally, what I’d like to happen is when this segment is brought up on the DVD (a seperate track), then the DVD goes into 4:3. However, is this possible, as in DVDSP from what I understand, the whole DVD is formatted as the one ratio. If I drop a 4:3 track in then, what will happen to it on a 16:9 dvd when the projector is in 4:3 and therefore squashing stuff horizontally.
Hope I explained it well enough.
Ta 🙂
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3 Replies
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[dylan Tucker] “as in DVDSP from what I understand, the whole DVD is formatted as the one ratio.”
Nope, menus and tracks can have different aspect ratios. You change the simulator in DVDSP to be 4×3 or 16×9 to see how the different tracks will play. When you choose how to interpret the 16×9 file, choose letterbox and not pan and scan.
-Russ
(I don’t have any problem helping, but you might have recieved more feedback on your post in the DVDSP forum.)
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Thanks. So as for the overall dvd project, in DVDSP where you select the formatting options, does it matter if I make it a 16:9 or a 4:3? Or is this just more of a global option to save you setting the properties of all the files and as you said, you can alter each one anyway?
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I think it’s just a setting so when you create a new menu or track, that item will default to that setting. But you can still change the setting of the item individually.
-Russ
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