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letterbox for DVD, whats up with the dull grey letterbox??
I just exported and burned an HDV project to a SD DVD, footage looked great, but I was thoroughly dissapointed with the dull grey letterbox around the footage on my television.
My process was, export the HDV sequence at full res, then drag the QT into a new SD project, and renderout with compressor. I outputted the MPG2 with the padding set to 16 by 9 and it letterboxed it perfect aside from the grey box. Is there a way to make this black? Or its it that my TV is a piece of crap?
Any input would be great,
thanks
G5 4gigs FCP6.0.1
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[zeech26] “My process was, export the HDV sequence at full res, then drag the QT into a new SD project, and renderout with compressor. I outputted the MPG2 with the padding set to 16 by 9 and it letterboxed it perfect aside from the grey box. Is there a way to make this black? Or its it that my TV is a piece of crap? “
Sounds like a odd process. it is much easier to ether export directly through compressor from FCP or pull the full sized video into compressor.
There is no need to actually letter box the video also. Make sure that in compressor you have it set to 16×9 or just use a preset that is 16×9. Then in DVD SP make sure you set the video track to 16×9. This was the DVD player will automatically display it as letter boxed on a 4×3 TV but on a wide screen TV it will fill up the whole screen.
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thanks I will give it a try!
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