idvd black bands on top and bottom, jerky movement

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idvd black bands on top and bottom, jerky movement

Posted by Chris Walker on October 19, 2011 at 3:36 am

So many challenges as I switch to an all-hd footage, fcpx workflow, from sd and old fcp…
I read about a workaround for the lack of chapter markers in fcpx, involving exporting to GarageBand. Problem is that when I add chapters there and then go to idvd, there are black bands on the top and bottom of my dvd, from hd converted to sd. Also, the movement is decidedly jerky.
With old fcp I could simply export a quicktime movie and open up idvd and and make a good quality dvd from that movie; no black bands, no jerkiness.
So, I suppose this means that I have to use studio pro if I want menus and chapters. But I’d really like to save myself that expense. Please help.

Chris Walker replied 14 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Chris Walker
October 19, 2011 at 9:40 pm

OK the jerkiness was due to a mistake I made in Streamclip settings. But how to get rid of the black bands?
T. Payton
October 19, 2011 at 10:07 pm

Black bands at top and bottom? Did GarageBand add them by any chance?

Also instead of garageband you could try this free app also.

https://www.applesolutions.com/bantha/MH.html

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
Chris Walker
October 21, 2011 at 12:56 am

Hi,
No, garage band didn’t add them; it’s just stretched somehow. Happens with any ntsc 720 by 480 sd file. The workaround i’ve found is to use Streamclip to make an oddly sized sd file, 720 by 525, for import to idvd. It has something to do with pixel aspect ratio settings, but I don’t see where to change that in idvd.
T. Payton
October 21, 2011 at 11:06 pm

Humm. I’ve output at least 6 SD Anamorphic projects from FCP X to DVD. Half to compressor & DVD Studio Pro and half to iDVD. All of them worked beautifully.

So if you drag it to iDVD without adding the chapter markers in GarageBand what happens? Are you sure you are creating an SD Anamorphic project in FCP X?

So I’m a big MPEGStreamclip user but I can’t figure out why you are using it? To resize footage?

BTW. Did you try Hootenanny? https://www.applesolutions.com/bantha/MH.html Worked great for me.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
Chris Walker
October 22, 2011 at 4:34 am

Hi,
I was making a non-anamorphic sd file, but by stretching the 16X9 footage in fcpx to crop the sides off, exporting a prores 1080 file, and then choosing the prores ntsc 720 by 480 option in Streamclip. Using Streamclip to get better downscaling. I know I could do the crop in streamclip but I wanted to do some panning of uncentered scenes in fcpx. So then, if you choose the 4:3 option in idvd, you should get no black bands, right? I’m assuming it has something to do with making a prores rather than a dv file, so pixel aspect ratios are different.
Chris Walker
October 22, 2011 at 4:53 am

I should add that when I don’t stretch the footage in fcpx and just make an anamorphic 4:3 file in streamclip, the black bands are still there on a 16×9 screen if I use idvd. However, if I make the dvd using compressor, using the exact same streamclip file, the bands are gone. But then I have no menu of course.
Yes, I have now found metadata hootenanny and it’s great for adding chapters, but idvd still produces the black bands.
One other thing: if I export a prores file of my hd footage, and use that in idvd without going to streamclip, the downscaling is fine and there are no black bands. So this is only a problem when I want to chop off the sides.

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