[Chris Borjis]

Neither of those will work without issues as they
have in past versions.

[Chris Borjis]

Yeah we’re all talking about open region Recordable DVD,
not hollywood pressed titles with Region Codes.

Those obviously wouldn’t work without hacking.

[Chris Borjis]

cropping would not lose vertical rez as you would be
cropping out the black from the formatting in a 4:3 comp.
in a 16:9 comp it fills the screen but looks vertically elongated.

I can tell you this much, if you print out to a DV tape
with the export/comp/project/whatever set for DV Widescreen
with a pixel aspect of 1.2, then capture that in FCP
and interpret it as DV Widescreen (1.2) it will definitely
work.

[Chris Borjis]

There are some other programs with bugs in them that
have to do with forcing PAL as lower field when it
should be upper.

go with whatever works i say. 🙂

[Chris Borjis]

I remember having to manually interpret widescreen footage
pixel ratio’s but that was in Premiere 6.5

Not sure if pro interprets in properly on import. does it
look right when editing?

I could be wrong but I don’t think any .avi player can
format anamorphic footage like that. It’s something
thats done only with DVD playback.

If it has to be played back on computer you have to render
it in a 4:3 comp and have it letter box, or if its a quicktime you
you crop it in a 4:3 comp.

[Chris Borjis]

It should be. I thought PAL DV was always upper field first.

[Chris Borjis]

Isn’t the Sony codec in V4 & 5 the mainconcept DV codec?

Thats one of the cleanest DV codecs of all time with Canopus.

Gary if you have room and render uncompressed you can do it
as much as you like.

[Chris Borjis]

Thats great! Thanks for the link edward!

[Chris Borjis]

I have heard nice things about the Toshiba models as well.

One of my clients own a newer panasonic recorder and
he recently made a disc with no menu. He said the
option was kind of hard to find in the menu.

Not sure which model though.

[Chris Borjis]

The panasonic brand Recorders are to this day still the best
ones out there for picture quality and reliability.

They are perfect suited for quick & easy low cost DVD production.

That jittery footage would probably look that way on tape
as well (being slowed down)