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  • footage switches between 16:9 and 4:3

    Posted by Jhbrewer on December 20, 2006 at 9:34 pm

    I’m working on a project, and I exported the final video from FCP via Compressor in .m2v and two audio files (maybe .aiff and .ac3). The file is widescreen, I can pull it up in QT and it plays in 16:9. I imported it to iDVD and played the preview, and it is in 4:3 with grey bars on the sides. The project is set to widescreen, and all of the menus are widescreen.

    Any ideas?

    Jerry Hofmann replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Jerry Hofmann

    December 20, 2006 at 10:06 pm

    iDVD can’t accept MPEG files from Compressor. You need to export it as a reference movie that uses “current settings”…. file/export/QT movie… Import that file into iDVD for the encode and burn.

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