[Chris Forsyth]

Indeed…well said!
Thanks again Phil.

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[Chris Forsyth]

Phil…
FIGURED IT OUT!
Ok – WOW – wow do I feel like a HEEL.
The issue was – (and this has been plaguing me now for a year – because every other DVD I burned had this problem too) – my DVD player was set up as if it were connected to a 4:3 TV, not a 16:9 TV!

OY!!!!!

Thanks Phil for getting me started in the right direction! It led me to another post on here ( https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/915339#915469 ) that talked about this. I have no idea why it never dawned on me that my DVD player had to be set up also!

Again…WOW…it’s always the simple stuff that evades the more technically savvy people!

Thanks again Phil.
Chris

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Phil…
THANK YOU THANK YOU for responding – seriously – I really appreciate it.

This IS getting me somewhere. It leads me to believe that I am selecting something wrong either in DVD Architect or Vegas.
Here’s what I found:
It plays fine on any computer that I drop the DVD into.
So – I have a Samsung 50″ Plasma HDTV.
On the remote is a button “P-Size” for Picture Size. The options are

1. 16:9 (sets the picture to the 16:9 aspect ratio
2. Zoom1: Stretches the 16:9 aspect ratio picture vertically
3. Zoom2: Stretches the zoom1 picture vertically
4. 4:3

The default it 16:9. When it’s on 16:9 the picture is letterboxed on top and bottom, and picture is stretched horizontally. When it is on 4:3, the picture is still letterboxed on top and bottom, and the picture only fills up 2/3 of the middle of the screen, with large grey areas to the left and right. When I put it on Zoom 1, it basically zooms in on the 4:3, and the picture fills the screen – no stretching – so basically it’s stretching the picture to cut off the black letterboxing on the top and the bottom – but it displays correctly. Zoom 2 stretches it vertically so things are too thin.

What does this all mean – can you help me make sense of it?

Again – MANY thanks.
Chris

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Douglass –
Can you clarify a little bit? Are you talking about the template in Vegas?

I mis-posted in my original post. The Template I am using is:
DVD Architect 24p NTSC Widescreen Video Stream
Which has the following settings:
Output Type: DVD
720-480
Frame Rate: 23.976 + 2-3 Pulldown
16:9 Display

Is this not the right template?

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[Chris Forsyth]

Mike – THANK YOU! Beautiful…

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Hey John,
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it – but unfortunately – although Neoscene can output to avi – it cannot convert avi – which is kind of weird.

I did however find out that Premiere Pro has the ability to export to cineform AVI…

I basically ended up pulling the AVI created by OnLocation into Premiere Pro, and am exporting it using the Cineform codec as an AVI, with the most lossless / highest quality settings possible – and the resultant file is readable in Vegas. I could just edit it in PP, but I don’t know my way around that program, and just want to work in Vegas where I know my way around really well. Uugh…

[Chris Forsyth]

Hey John:

I did call Raylight, but they said their product would not decode the AVI files – only quicktime files that were exported from FCP.

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Is this my only option? To pay $160 to be able to use this video in Vegas??
https://www.mainconcept.com/products/apps-plug-ins/decoding/decoder-packs/dvcpro-hd.html

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[Chris Forsyth]

Anyone?

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Hey Scott,

I too disable windows “sounds”.
The weird thing is – when I have the focus on the Presonus UI applet, I can change it manually to 48k, and it takes just fine, but the minute I put the focus on the Vegas window – it switches the sample rate in the presonus applet back to 44k. Thats why I thought it might be a setting somewhere inside Vegas that I needed to change, since it seemed that putting the focus on Vegas was switching the firestudio to 44k – as if Vegas was calling for 44k.

Any thoughts? Do you experience this also by any chance?

Thanks