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Widescreen issue ?
Hello again,
Searched the forum & the internet but did not find the answer for
this situation. Suggested sollutions did not work.I have to render my HD videoclip to mpeg2 / Pal widescreen to dvd for convertion to digi beta for tv broadcast. The recorded clips are 1280x720x32; 25 fps progressive (720P/25PN Film mode).
When I change the project properties to PAL Standard/IMX widescreen (720 x 576) or PAL DV / Widescreen to see what it will look like I get the well known sidebars in the preview window. If I play the PAL widescreen rendered mpeg2 file in dvd architect the sidebars are there.
The video was recorded with HVX 201 in HD on P2 cards, so that means 16:9 (widescreen).What is happening here? I guess I’m doing something wrong. Is there a
way to render this in PAL widescreen without the sidebars?
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> What is happening here? I guess I’m doing something wrong.
You are not doing anything wrong. HDV 1028×720 is 16:9 aspect while PAL Widescreen is not really 16:9. Do the math. 720 / 9 = 80 and 80 * 16 = 1280. So 1280×720 is 16:9. For PAL Widescreen 576 / 9 = 64 and 64 * 16 = 1024. Since PAL doesn’t use square pixels you have to multiply 720 * 1.4568 PAR which is 1048.896 which does not equal 1024! So PAL widescreen is not 16:9. It would need to be 1024×576 to be 16:9 but it’s roughly 1049×576.
> Is there a way to render this in PAL widescreen without the sidebars?
You need to crop your entire project to PAL widescreen aspect. The easiest way is to open a new project, set it to PAL Widescreen, drop the HDV project in as a nested project, open Pan/Crop on the nested veg and select Match Output Aspect, then render to PAL Widescreen.
~jr
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Thank you for your help, John. I will do just that.
Now I can finally take the last steps to end this project.
THANX !!!
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