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Widecreen Practical Issue
I’ve read through all the posts I can find about widescreen issues, and am wondering about a practical issue:
First, I do alot of corporate video work, much of which is distributed to their clients. From what I’m reading, if I create and output in true (anamorphic) widescreen, there will be many DVD players that won’t recognise the PAR flag and will display the video as tall and squished. And since there are still many 4:3 video displays out there, does it make any sense to use a true widescreen (720×480 apr=1.2) for general distribution? For maximum compatability, doesn’t it make most sense to simply create the project in 4:3 and put black bars at top and bottom? What are people’s “real world” experience?
And, although less important, if I create a widescreen project in PPro then the DV output is anamorphic and requires a widescreen monitor to “stretch” the display (rather using than the expensive broadcast monitor I already have). It would be helpful if PPro had an option to resize a widescreen output on the fly to the DV output (with black bars top and bottom). This is a minor point though. My main issue is how people are handling video creation that goes out to general audiences.
Thanks!
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I would do it with an apr of 1.2. that way, if they have a widescreen display they get the maximum quality. If their DVD player is so old that it doesn’t properly display widescreen material then that is there problem. I’ve never seen a dvd player that didn’t recognize widescreen dvds that I’ve created with premiere/encore. That’s with probably 100-200 different dvd players, so there could be one out there that doesn’t recognize the flag, but I haven’t encountered one yet.
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Thanks for your input Steve!!
How do you get a proper monitor output with a widescreen PPro project? Now that I look at it, the DV output of a widescreen formatted project puts black bars at the right and left … even a widescreen monitor wouldn’t fix that.
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I don’t think I was clear in my response. What I’m asking is how do you get a proper display of a widescreen project While you’re editing it? How do you get the proper output from PPro (before encoding) so I can judge colors, etc while editing.
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I use a widescreen monitor, fed either with the third output of a Parhelia, or analog PassThrough on a DV device fed by firewire depending on the computer I’m using.
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