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Andrew Griffiths
January 17, 2012 at 10:25 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX showing as 4:3 in iDVD

Dave

Many thanks – you’ve helped me towards the solution!

I think I’ve finally cracked it. I double checked the properties of the project in FCPX and found that the video properties were set to 1404 x 1080. I changed them to 1920 x 1080. I’ve exported a small segment and dragged it into iDVD whereupon it now plays in 16:9 – at last!

The annoying thing is the way QT7 reported the earlier videos I’d exported as being 1920 x 1080 – which they clearly weren’t even though QT7 played them in 16:9!

I think I was a victim of the FCPX feature which offers to set the video properties automatically on the first clip. From now on I won’t use that!

Thanks for your help.

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 17, 2012 at 10:19 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX playing in 4:3 in iDVD

Jack

I hope the solution I’ve finally found works for you!

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 17, 2012 at 10:14 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX playing in 4:3 in iDVD

Tom

Thanks for your reply.

I think I’ve finally cracked it. I double checked the properties of the project in FCPX and found that the video properties were set to 1404 x 1080. I changed them to 1920 x 1080. I’ve exported a small segment and dragged it into iDVD whereupon it now plays in 16:9 – at last!

The annoying thing is that QT7 reported the earlier videos I’d exported as being 1920 x 1080 – which they clearly weren’t!

I think I was a victim of the FCPX feature which offers to set the video properties automatically on the first clip. From now on I won’t use that!

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 17, 2012 at 9:06 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX showing as 4:3 in iDVD

Dave

If I open the movie in QuickTime 7 and open the properties, the the video track it reports the size of the video as 1920 x 1080. As I understand it, that means it is 16:9 – is that right?

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 17, 2012 at 8:15 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX showing as 4:3 in iDVD

Michael – many thanks, will do.

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 17, 2012 at 8:15 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX showing as 4:3 in iDVD

Dave

Many thanks – appreciate your suggestions. I should have mentioned that my video is HD which as I understand it is automatically 16:9.

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 16, 2012 at 6:42 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX showing as 4:3 in iDVD

Thanks Dave – I’ve checked the settings in iDVD and they are definitely set for 16:9

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 16, 2012 at 4:44 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX showing as 4:3 in iDVD

Dave

Thanks for your reply. I’ve successfully made a 16:9 DVDs using iDVD in the past after exporting from FCE so I guess the answer is yes.

I’ve also made a 16:9 DVD in iDVD from FCPX (from a movie exported from FCPX) – that was just before Christmas, but every time I try it now, iDVD insists on playing it in 4:3. I’m still stumped.

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 16, 2012 at 4:23 pm in reply to: 16:9 movies from FCPX showing as 4:3 in iDVD

Replying to my own post (!) I should have added that I’ve tried Anamorphicizer and myDVDedit but neither worked. I use a Mac with OSX 10.7.2 (Lion).

Andrew
Andrew Griffiths
January 2, 2012 at 6:57 pm in reply to: Compressor 4 – does it fix the probems?

Re submit button greyed out –

I tried repairing disk permissions but that didn’t work for me. What DID work was a free download of Compressor Repair 2.1.1 which you can download from https://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Compressor-Repair-Download-45934.html.

I ran the program, waited 30 secs as it suggests then restarted Compressor 4. I then found that the submit button was no longer greyed out and I could convert files successfully.