dvd wide screen

[David Garrett]

Encore will only allow you import a recognised format… PAL 720 X 576 or NTSC 720 X 480

[Miguel]

i cant make a retangular format !? only square !? a can

[David Garrett]

not so much a weak point in Encore.. just the DVD specs it asks for… i have imported 4:3 & 16:9 MPEG2 video into Encore with no probs..
Perhaps Encore just don’t like the Divx format and or possibly the aspect ratio that you are trying to import

[Miguel]

what the size of 16:9!?

tnks

[Tim Kurkoski]

16:9 is the same size as 4:3- PAL 720×576 or NTSC 720×480. The difference is 16:9 uses wider pixels. For example, NTSC uses 0.9 pixel aspect ratio for 4:3, and 1.2 PAR for 16:9. I’m not sure of the ratios for PAL, but it’s similar.

And no, Encore probably won’t take your DivX files. It’s not a standard format. Convert them to MPEG-2 first.

[Miguel]

i convert the file but this is impossible to import cause the format is wide screen i have to convert all the files to square format !?

tnks

[Greg Cotten]

Miguel-

Apparently you don’t understand Pixel Aspect Ratios. All movies that you see on a DVD are 720×480 with a certain pixel aspect ratio. 16:9 that you see on DVDs is actually 720×480 (which is technically square) with a 1.2 Pixel Aspect Ratio. This means that the width of the pixel is longer than the length of the pixel by a ratio of 1.2 .

There you go.

-Greg