rendering widescreen

[John Rofrano]

HD 1080-50i (1920×1080, 25.000 fps) recorded at maximum resolution on a panasonic tm300. my footage since february has been recorded at same resolution with a original widescreen panasonic converter lens attached (this could be an issue).

You are correct about the widescreen converter being an issue. The Panasonic HDC-TM300 already shoots widescreen HD. If you put a widescreen converter lens in front of it that would be a bad thing. I’m not sure what you would wind up with but it probably won’t look correct unless you manually change the pixel aspect to compensate for it.

not sure what setting i should put on for pixel aspect ratio 1.4568 pal dv widescreen? at present this is set to 1000 square

When rendering, just select MainConcept MPEG2 as the type and DVD Architect PAL Widescreen video stream as the template. This will render the video only. Then render the audio as Digital Dolby AC3 and give it the same filename with the .ac3 file extension. This way DVD Architect will know that the .mpg file and .ac3 file are for the same video because then names are the same.

ps not sure where the uploaded image resides so not sure if its visible to you

If you are trying to show us an image, you have to copy the URL and paste it into your post after you upload the image. Just go back and select the image and cut and paste the URL.

Like this:

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[Peter Bailey]

Thanks for the advice! I am not sure what Panasonic are doing as the wide converter lens along with the teleconverter lens are recommended as accessories for the tm300. I did a compare shoot of the same scene and the widescreen lens does give a wider shot but maybe someone else will read this who has the same camera and can give more info.

Thank you as always for taking the time to respond.

regards in advance

[John Rofrano]

I am not sure what Panasonic are doing as the wide converter lens along with the teleconverter lens are recommended as accessories for the tm300.

I believe the problem is just the terminology you used. In your original post you called it a “widescreen” converter which is an anamorphic lens. What you actually have is a “wide angle” convert which is something entirely different and quite appropriate for that camera.

I did a compare shoot of the same scene and the widescreen lens does give a wider shot but maybe someone else will read this who has the same camera and can give more info.

Yes, that’s a wide angle conversion lens. It gives you a wider field of view and has nothing to do with widescreen.

~jr

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[Peter Bailey]

aha great so, so far so good. I assume that now haveing a widescreen format is not an issue with my converter lens? I had a trawl through the manual of the camera and could not find anything relating to a widescreen setting apart from the aspect ratio for connection to a television.

I might just have to accept that it does but still annoying not to be able to find the menu control.

i assume if its recorded in widescreen and then the dvda widescreen template is used that all will be well and i will see black bars.

regards in advance

[John Rofrano]

I assume that now haveing a widescreen format is not an issue with my converter lens?

Correct, it’s not an issue at all.

I had a trawl through the manual of the camera and could not find anything relating to a widescreen setting apart from the aspect ratio for connection to a television. I might just have to accept that it does but still annoying not to be able to find the menu control.

The camera will not have any kind of widescreen setting because HD is always widescreen by definition.

i assume if its recorded in widescreen and then the dvda widescreen template is used that all will be well and i will see black bars.

No, you never want to see black bars. Widescreen doesn’t have any black bars. Black bars are a result of a mismatch between standard TV and widescreen TV and should only be seen on a device that cannot display widescreen. Under normal conditions there should be no black bars; just full widescreen on a widescreen TV.

Remember you need to set your set-top DVD player up correctly to display widescreen correctly.

~jr

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[Peter Bailey]

so does the vegas preview window mimic a widescreen tv? it appears that the rendering process is handled correctly by the dvda template so to avoid having to create a dvd to discover a problem can i set it (preview) to show any potential problem? A lot of questions sorry!

regards in advance

[John Rofrano]

so does the vegas preview window mimic a widescreen tv?

Yes, if you right-click the preview window and make sure that Simulate Device Aspect Ratio is checked it will show you exactly what you should see on a widescreen TV.

~jr

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