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Widescreen (again)
Maybe I need to clatify my previous question. I’m working on a DV project with two basic sources, normal DV and stills, that ends up being displayed on WS TV (as well as in Director as QT movies). The reason I
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I would stay widescreen all the way, from Vegas Project properties to Render settings, to DVDA Project Settings.
To make SD pics fit into the 16:9 shape, you can either:
Use Pan Crop – Right click / Match Output Aspect. In effect this will cut off the top and bottom, but you can slide the frame up or down if the central crop isn’t what you want. The downside of this method is that because you’re using part of a 4:3 pic to fill a 16:9 frame, this zooming-in will cause a loss of resolution. Supersampling may help minimise this loss.
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Leave them as they are, which means you have them at their full height but with a blank space either side. You can either leave this as black or fill with a colour, gradient or some other still or moving image such as texture loops.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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[Peter Wright] “Supersampling may help minimise this loss.”
Supersampling is for temporal data (inter-frame) and has nothing whatsoever to do with spatial data. In other words… it’s not going to make any difference to the scaling/resolution issues.
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Thanks for the clarification Liam. What sort of situation would benefit from Supersampling?
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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Thanks Peter. Widescreen all the way. Basically the same problem. It’s as though the widescreen were letterboxed. Normal video fills the screen, widescreen has a black band top and bottom. The screen size says “Full”, I’ve used “S” video and AV cables. The only thing I haven’t tried is component video. I’m going to go try another widescreen TV as soon as I get a chance. I’ll let you know the results. Thanks again.
Arthur
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Tried the widescreen all the way on my regular TV. It appeared perfectly letter boxed same as on my widescreen. Is there a setting in DVDA that could be causimg this? Or do you think the problem’s in the widescreen. An inexpensive 15″ Norcent. Thanks.
Arthur
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Peter,
You were close to right the first time. It wasn’t a switch or driver on the TV, it was a menu item on the silly (read old) dvd player. It actually had to be set to 16:9. Thank you for your help. You may have saved my sanity.
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Glad you got it sorted with your brain intact Arthur.
Your experience will be very useful for many – widescreen is still in its infancy and I’m sure many more are going to encounter similar problems.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au
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