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squeeze vs letterbox on DVD
Usually, when I make a DVD from HD material via compressor and DVD SP, I can set it so that it squeezes the video instead of letter boxing it.
Using the built in ‘share’ setting to create a DVD straight from FCPX, it gives you no options and just letterboxes. Does anyone know of any tricks to get a squeezed DVD?
For quick one-offs of DVD’s that I don’t want to bother authoring (especially when DVD SP stops working) it would be nice if we could have a little more control…
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I’ve made DVDs from X and it didn’t letterbox. I’m not sure there’s even an option. There is no reason I can think of to Letterbox DVD content. Letterbox is performed by the DVD player on playback if it has 16:9 material and has a 4:3 screen connected.
You sure you’re seeing letterbox and don’t just have the player setup for 4:3?
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Thanks for the reply! No, the player is the same as I always use. When I author a DVD using DVD SP, I set the display type to 4:3 and that squeezes the image so I can un-squeeze on the player to watch on my HD TV.
When I burn a DVD straight from the share menu of FCPX using Apple’s DVD preset, it creates a letterbox image. There seems to be no presets that I can see.
In the instance you’re referring to, are you using the share preset and are you going from HD original to an SD DVD?
Normally I author through DVD SP, but it would be nice for quick ‘one-offs’ to be squeezed so I can use the full image.
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