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Property settings vs. Rendering settings
I have a project that I am about to burn, but want some advise first.
I have made 6 videos. Each video property was set as: HDV 720-30p (1280×720, 29.970 fps). When I rendered each one, I rendered it as “Template DVD NTSC. Did I do this correctly? I have (and most people do) HD tv’s. I don’t like the widescreen (letterbox) effect of black at top and bottom of screen, so I don’t want the video to turn out this way. I want the video to be able to fill up the whole screen. I know my tv settings are set to normal instead of widescreen, even though it is a widescreen as all HDTV’s are, and I know all of my HD channels do fill up the screen. So, I am open for comments, and hope that I don’t have to do these all over again. Project is sitting in Adobe Encore just waiting to be burned. -
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What’s your destination format for these videos? Youtube, Blu-ray, or just DVD?
If you’re only going to burn to DVD, then you can set the project properties to the appropriate DVD template (probably NTSC DVD Widescreen). Otherwise leave the project properties as they are, and for the DVD render, select MPEG2 as the format, and choose NTSC Widescreen DVD as the template. It sounds like you chose the non-widescreen template, which will letterbox your video into a 4:3 aspect ratio.
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Yes, just for dvd purposes. If I do the template to widescreen it changes the output as an “m2t” file, if that’s a problem. I know my computer doesn’t seem to recognize that extension.
So what you are saying is to set properties to default, which is NTSC Standard DVD, and rendering to template for NTSC DVD Widescreen? Will this fill the whole screen on a widescreen tv?
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Do you know what Encore expects for its input file(s)? Sony’s DVD Architect expects separate audio and video streams in MPG and AC3 files, so that’s what Vegas has templates for (the DVD Architect templates).
It sounds like you chose one of the high-def HDV templates. DVDs are standard def only. When rendering for DVD, you need to select MPEG2 as the “save as” type, then choose one of the DVD templates. The “DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream” is probably best, but that does not include audio (see above). You need to render the audio separately as the Dolby Digital AC3 format, and import both the Encore. Hopefully it will use them both without any re-compression.
I have Movie Studio 10 and it doesn’t have widescreen templates for audio and video in one file. If you need the audio and video in one file, you might need to choose the DVD NTSC template and click custom, then change the aspect ratio to 16:9
Phew, was that complicated enough? 😉
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Thanks Matt,
I think that I am going to do 2 videos with the different settings, and author them to a dvd and play on tv to see what the difference looks like. Thanks for all your comments. Always nice to have others steer you in the right direction.
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