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Widescreen DVD plays back squashed on WS TV
I am using Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 to render my video using the “DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen Video Stream” setting. I have DVD Architect Studio 4.5 and use the “NTSC Widescreen (720×480)” setting. When I play the resulting DVD on a computer it looks fine. As expected, the DVD playback on my 4:3 TV is letterboxed, but the video is proportional. The problem is playback on my widescreen TV looks squashed vertically when the TV is set to 16:9 mode. When I set my WS TV to 4:3 mode, the video becomes both letterboxed and pillarboxed, but the picture is proportional. Setting the WS TV to “Zoom 1” mode makes the picture look correct; it fills the entire screen and is in proportion. Professional DVDs look correct on the 16:9 setting. How can I get my DVDs to play properly on the 16:9 setting?
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4 Replies
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Unless you have stated this within your post, what have you set your TV’s DVD player to? Is it 16×9 WS or Auto or what? I can’t quite discern this from what you have written. From what I’ve read it would appear you are testing the veracity of your conclusion about your 4×3 TV against the output and monitoring on your WS TV. What I am saying is that this could be spurious and, consequently, COULD be giving you a comparison that is in itself a false positive?
Waddyah fink?
Grazie
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The only playback setting I can find on the DVD player is “zoom”, and it is set to “1x”.
Furthermore, I have taken the DVD player from the 4:3 TV (which looks fine there) and connected it to the WS TV, resulting in the squashed picture. So, two different DVD players give the same result on the WS TV.
Thanks for your help!
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Ok, I found the screen size setting on the DVD player. You are right, it was set to 4:3, and setting it to 16:9 corrected the problem. THANK YOU!
Why did professional DVDs play fine for the last year I have had this TV and DVD player? My concern is that I will be sending my DVDs to people who know much less about video than I do, and I couldn’t even figure out this problem without your help. Is there a way to make this DVD “fool proof”?
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I don’t think so! Too many fools out there!
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