Exporting in 16 x 9 with Premiere 1.5

[Blast1]

[Dylan O’Leary] “DVD won’t hold the aspect ratio at 16×9 when played on a TV.”

What kind of TV SD or WS, I assume WS, whats it doing, pillar boxing?

[Dex Craig]

I produced a feature-length movie using Premiere 1.5 in 16×9 without any trouble. Where I had trouble was with the DVD authoring software. Adobe Encore 1.5 was perfect; I’d tried using some other DVD packages and would wind up with 16:9 squished to 4:3.

What software are you encoding the DVD with?

[Blast1]

I was using Encore 1.5, I’ve got 2 now but haven’t used it yet, I’ve done a bunch simple projects in Ppro 2 where I could just use its DVD templates and photoshop.

[Ervin Farkas]

I scratched my head over this same issue just a few weeks ago. To further complicate things, the authored DVD (Encore) looked 16×9 on the PC but full screen on my TV. Turned out, I had my Philips DVD player set wrong…

Ervin

[Dylan O’leary]

naw, it’s just expaning to fill the 4:3, so the sides get cut off. It’s a normal (4:3) TV.

Dylan O’Leary
http://www.scoutsthemovie.com

[Dylan O’leary]

I’m using just the Adobe Premiere program to export to DVD. I’ll try exporting as MPEG2 then burning it to DVD. More soon.

Dylan O’Leary
http://www.scoutsthemovie.com

[Jeff Bellune]

Check the player’s settings. They should be set to 4:3 Letterbox.

-Jeff

The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0