frustrating export to dvd problem..help!

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[Vin2000] “ntsc widescreen 16:9 7mb high quality, cbr 1 pass, then once it’s done, and i put it in a dvd player, the end result isn’t widescreen. my actual film footage appears as if it’s 4:3, as a box,”

What are you viewing it on? if widescreen have you set the DVD player for the proper format in the settings?

[Vin2000] “some of my footage has a little black bar on the left or right screen, like 2/10th of an inch. is there any way i can crop that? i remember when i was exporting there was a crop option, but when i would crop it, it would crop part of the image and have more black space, i want to do the opposite!”

Cropping is the procedure to remove part of the image, you want to stretch the image a bit

[Vin2000]

i’m viewing it on widescreen… i tried it in the dvd player on the TV, on the laptop, and a different one. I keep getting this big black border around the image.

I noticed at a different forum someone had the same problem, but they told her that her source footage might not be the same as the dvd 720 x 480 i think.

i checked my source footage and it’s the same as the output, i can’t put my hand on it… happens all the time and it just looks weird watching it like that!

has anyone ever encountered anything like this before??

btw, how can i stretch the image? i need only like the right stretched a tiny bit, like 1/10th of an inch.

thanks again guys!

[Blast1]

[Vin2000] “i’m viewing it on widescreen… i tried it in the dvd player on the TV, on the laptop, and a different one. I keep getting this big black border around the image.”

Where did you get your source footage from?
What it sounds like is you have letterboxed 4:3(0.9) footage that you are putting into a 16:9(1.2) project, all DV AVI footage whether 4:3 or 16:9 is 720×480 just the pixel aspect ratio is different.

[Vin2000]

i was afraid of having 4:3 footage…

but when i open the clip, i see the black bars above and below the footage as if it’s in widescreen, and i remember (this was a long time ago when we filmed) that it wasn’t 4:3

and that being the case, how come in the source and output it looks fine but then it doesn’t?!

sorry for all the questions, just have to get this right, newbie here!!

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Some cams like the DVX100 just cropped the 4:3 footage to look like widescreen but it was just 4:3 footage that was reduced vertically to resemble widescreen so the canvas(Frame) was 720×480 and the image was 720×360 with black filling the other 120 vertical pixels on the top and bottom, the next version the DVX100a also cropped the image like above but used DSP to fill the frame to a full 720×480 but with anamorphic video(1.2 to 1) so the 720×480 image looked elongated vertically it also contained a widescreen ID bit so when fed to a WS TV it compensates and shows the video as widescreen, but cams that do this like the DVX100a, VX2000/2100, PD150/170, etc have poor vertical resolution, the sony cams have a bit better DSP so give a tad better widescreen, the best widescreen for these type cams is done with add-on anamorphic lenses like Century or Optex so you get full frame vertical resolution

In the case where you have a thin black line on the edge you can right clik on the offending clip and select “Scale To Frame Size” or if that doesn’t work you can select the Effects Control tab above the source monitor and apply the motion controls to modify the image to suit yourself.

[Vin2000]

that’s exactly what happened…. we used a dvx100…

so that being said, what are my options so that i don’t have a black frame around it?

i’m thinking instead of choosing ntsc 16:9, i’ll choose ntsc 4:3 and then choose 16:9 where it asks me 4:3 or 16:9. i’m trying to do that on a simple sequence, 1 minute to test it out. should that work??

but NOW it’s saying i have insufficient disk space to create temporary burning files!!! it has 30 gig free, and the sequence is only 1 minute! I closed the program, restarted, cleaned out some files didnt use to get more space, and still nothing. I had no problem yesterday burning the main entire sequence, 30 minutes, and now it wont let me test out the 1 minute one! lol…

any help would be greatly appreciated!

vin.

[Vin2000]

ok,

i kinda got it to work.

i chose 4:3 for all the options and it works.

however, is there a way to convert it to 16:9 without having the black frame all around? i don’t mind it being stretched.

and how do i exactly “stretch” part of the sequence? I need like 1/10th of an inch stretched to the right side to kill this black bar that’s there.

thanks!

mike

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[Vin2000] “and how do i exactly “stretch” part of the sequence? I need like 1/10th of an inch stretched to the right side to kill this black bar that’s there”

Like I said in the previous post, right clik on the clip on the TL and select “scale to frame” and see if the black bar goes away, If not use Motion Control under the Effects tab, use the help function index to locate info on using it, you can use the same to enlarge the 4:3 letter boxed.