[Gary David]

[Shane Ross] Sorry, your noob-ness is showing. 🙂 . . . I’m sure this is something happening because of the TV, not anything you did.

It’s good to know I’m not as much of a noob as I appear! 😉

Anyway, I finally found the setting. It’s in DVD Studio Pro. In the upper right of the Viewer window there is a Settings drop down menu. It’s there! The kids no longer look stretched.

Thanks to all for helping!

[Gary David]

Shane:

Thank you so much for replying. Here are what I think are the answers to your questions (I’m a bit of a noob at this stuff):

When I look in sequence settings, I see Apple ProRes 422 as both the render codec and the QuickTime video setting. I think I have it for the clip settings, too as I did a Log and Transfer to pull in the clips (and my Apple trainer said that converting to Prores would ultimately give me greater flexibility and/or quality).

I am testing this on Sanyo HD TV. The DVD is formatted as a 16:9 letterbox. It was shot in 16:9 and is being edited in 16:9. So, I’m not stretching 4:3. The stretching is slight, but noticeable.

I think I want both square and rectangular pixels depending on output. I’m burning the DVD for the friend (rectangular) and creating mpgs (square) for online view by out-of-state family. Also, because computer monitors work in square pixels, isn’t that what I want while editing?

In Compressor, I’m outputting to MPEG-2 for a DVD. Wouldn’t that convert to rectangular?