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Making a PAL DVD but getting unwanted pillarbox
I’m kind of new to Encore and I’m having trouble with a PAL DVD. My source is a 720×576 letterboxed m2v PAL file. The problem is when I bring it into Encore, Encore is also pillarboxing it so that it has black around the entire file. The source is not pillarboxed. How can I fix this?
A little detail about the project. It’s a simple first play PAL DVD with one m2v video asset. No menu. I have the project settings set to:
Authoring mode: DVD
Television Standard: PAL
Transcode Settings: Codec: MPEG-2; Dimensions 720×576; Frame Rate: 25; Fields: Lower Field First; Audio Transcoding Scheme: Dolby Digital; Maximum Audio/Video Bitrate: 9.4 MbpsThanks for any help.
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3 Replies
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robert,
first of all – your bitrate is much to high. 9.4Mbit will not work on burned discs, the max. bitrate would be 8.5Mbit (video and audio incl.).what do you mean by letterboxed? anamorph 16:9 or letterboxed 4:3?!
PAL-DVDs will only be lower first as the source-material is DV-material, DV, DVCPRO25, DVCPRO50 or DVCAM. all other PAL-source is upper field first.
if the original is 16:9 letterboxed, you need to encode the MPEG2 as 16:9 using adobe media encoder or any other encoder.
cheers
danny
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Hi Danny. Thanks for the response. The file is neither anamorphic or letterboxed 4:3. It is PAL 720×576 letterboxed with a 16:9 video. I’ve already encoded the original which was a DVCPro HD file. When I bring it into Encore, Encore is adding a slight pillar box on the sides of the frame making the entire 16:9 video be surrounded in black.
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robert,
if it´s a real 16:9 PAL-clip it IS anamorph, as 16:9 with aspec 1:1 would be 1024×576 instead of 720×576.but if your source is DVCPRO HD, this is HD and need to be scaled to SD prior encoding, and if it is 1080i50-source, it needs to be cropped left and right to fit to 720×576.
what encoder do you use to create your PAL SD MPEG2? adobe strangely using a different aspec-ratio (1050×576), but your encoded file will be 720×576 as well.
are you using adobe media encoder?
NOTE: DVCPRO HD has a native resolution of 1440×1080 instead of 1920×1080, it´s an anamorph HD-resolution.
cheers
danny
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