Print to Video Question: Not 16×9 on my external monitor?

[Katie Van]

We’ve just been monitoring on a second computer screen – Digital Cinema Desktop preview. And I’ve just been de-interlacing the 4:3 stuff with the De-interlace Video filter. The archival in on initial DVDs I made in iDVD did look pretty bad though.

I have been reading the DVD SP manual, and got the Peachpit book today, but can’t find what I’m supposed to do with this situation. I figure it must be pretty common.

Thanks so much for any help

[Katie Van]

Hi David,

By “Set the 16×9 flag” in Compressor do you mean just choose that in Geometry? You warn against accidentally encoding a letterboxed MPEG 2.
I don’t want to do this, but don’t know how.. I don’t see letterbox option.

If I just export a 16×9 MPEG, then in DVD SP do I choose 16×9 letterbox or just 16×9? (To get it right on all TVs)

Finally, can I just go from fcp to Compressor MPEG without exporting a QT at current settings?

I’m very nervous about getting this right tonight.

Thank you,
Katrina

[David Roth weiss]

[Katrina Mann] “By “Set the 16×9 flag” in Compressor do you mean just choose that in Geometry?”

Nope, if you’ve output a 16×9 QT from FCP, the proper setting in Compressor is “16×9” in the Aspect Ratio field in the Encoder tab of the Inspector.

When properly set, that places a flag that signals authoring programs to automatically scale your DVD so that it displays 16×9 on widescreen monitors and letterboxed on 4×3 monitors.

Pretty simple huh?

Good luck tonight…

David

David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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