Pls Hlp asap – cant figure out correct render from Vegas to DVD-A

[Phil Loarie]

Hello,
Please tell me more about your widescreen tv.

Assuming this is a HD TV, you likely have a button on your remote
to change its display, mine (46″ Sony KBR) has a button labeled “wide”. When engaged a menu appears in the upper left with four choices: stretched, full/normal, [something else] and Zoom. What you should have it on, is full or normal. Zoom does not stretch, or change the aspect ratio, it only ‘zoom’s in to fill the screen.

Another thing you might do is look at your render on your computer so you have a baseline reference, use Windows Media Player, or such or even use the PMB. If it is stretched on these then yes you have a render issue, if not, then it’s your widescreen tv’s settings.

Hope this helps,
-Phil

[Chris Forsyth]

Phil…
THANK YOU THANK YOU for responding – seriously – I really appreciate it.

This IS getting me somewhere. It leads me to believe that I am selecting something wrong either in DVD Architect or Vegas.
Here’s what I found:
It plays fine on any computer that I drop the DVD into.
So – I have a Samsung 50″ Plasma HDTV.
On the remote is a button “P-Size” for Picture Size. The options are

1. 16:9 (sets the picture to the 16:9 aspect ratio
2. Zoom1: Stretches the 16:9 aspect ratio picture vertically
3. Zoom2: Stretches the zoom1 picture vertically
4. 4:3

The default it 16:9. When it’s on 16:9 the picture is letterboxed on top and bottom, and picture is stretched horizontally. When it is on 4:3, the picture is still letterboxed on top and bottom, and the picture only fills up 2/3 of the middle of the screen, with large grey areas to the left and right. When I put it on Zoom 1, it basically zooms in on the 4:3, and the picture fills the screen – no stretching – so basically it’s stretching the picture to cut off the black letterboxing on the top and the bottom – but it displays correctly. Zoom 2 stretches it vertically so things are too thin.

What does this all mean – can you help me make sense of it?

Again – MANY thanks.
Chris

Thanks

[Chris Forsyth]

Phil…
FIGURED IT OUT!
Ok – WOW – wow do I feel like a HEEL.
The issue was – (and this has been plaguing me now for a year – because every other DVD I burned had this problem too) – my DVD player was set up as if it were connected to a 4:3 TV, not a 16:9 TV!

OY!!!!!

Thanks Phil for getting me started in the right direction! It led me to another post on here ( https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/915339#915469 ) that talked about this. I have no idea why it never dawned on me that my DVD player had to be set up also!

Again…WOW…it’s always the simple stuff that evades the more technically savvy people!

Thanks again Phil.
Chris

Thanks

[Phil Loarie]

Great News ! congrats. You can feel like a heel if you want to, but you did all the work to make it work. No failures remember, each test is a step in the right direction.

I completely neglected to include your DVD player in the chain.

Basically, if it appears ok on your computer player, then it must
be something down the chain that was adding the unwanted stretch.

Glad you were able to isolate this one.
-Phil

[Chris Forsyth]

Indeed…well said!
Thanks again Phil.

Thanks

[Phil Loarie]

You are very welcome, good luck on your delivery tonight.
-Phil