Marc Dewey
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Yes, I think you’re right. With the Philips player, in the menu I changed the default to 16:9 and now it works fine. Thanks,
Marc
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I have a similar question – I already exported my 16:9 24p HDV Final Cut Pro project to a .m2v using the Compressor “DVD Best Quality 90 min.” preset. I am then importing this into an Encore DVD project. I’ve already burned a test DVD but have run into problems.
What I want is to have 4:3 fullscreen menus, then have it switch to 16:9 widescreen for the video. Simple, right? In the preview window, it looks fine. When I try it on a computer DVD drive, it works – the menus are fullscreen & the video is widescreen. I’ve tried in a couple older set-top DVD players and they also worked fine.
However, with 2 of the newer set-top DVD players I’ve tried (Panasonic & Philips), they couldn’t figure it out. They both had full-screen menus, but one of them squished the video to make it fullscreen. The other one just cut off the sides.
Should I use a different compression preset, or is there an Encore setting I might have wrong?
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Yep, that’s my exact problem alright. I found a temporary work-around, at least for my needs. I just swapped the monitors’ DVI cords, so my 22″ became my secondary and my 17″ the primary (I couldn’t find any way to do this via display options like on PC). Then I dragged the program windows onto the secondary like I wanted for editing, and when I go to preview it works on the small one.
I don’t consider this a solution though, because I really don’t like using my tiny 17″ as a primary monitor. Argh.Here’s hoping a solution will come our way Michael….
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Thanks for the clarification Michael. I’m using a Mac Pro desktop, not MacBook – and it has 2 DVI ports. I have a 22″ Samsung LCD as my primary and my 17″ Dell LCD for a secondary. If I drag the individual program windows into my 2nd monitor (browser, viewer, canvas, timeline) then set Video Playback to Digital Cinema Desktop-Main, it will preview full-screen on my primary monitor just fine, but I want to do the opposite! I want the big screen for editing and the small one for previewing. Why is it so hard?
I am using Final Cut Pro HD 4.5 – Is this just maybe an older-version issue? With Premiere, there’s just a small button in the preview window that brings up the settings, then just a check box for the external monitor and it WORKS! Argh…
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When I set to that, it does a full screen preview on my PRIMARY monitor (the one I’m editing in), not the secondary.
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Okay I have a newbie question, but it’s related to this. I have a brand-new Mac Pro with FCP and am trying to get dual LCD monitors working – one for editing & the other for previewing. Sounds simple, right? Both monitors are hooked up via DVI and are set up as dual screens (not mirrored) in System Preferences and the 2nd monitor is working fine.
In FCP, I keep hitting “Refresh A/V Devices” to no avail. When I go to “Video Playback” I’m only given the option of “None” or “Digital Cinema Desktop – Main.”
So now I’m wondering: is this even possible via a straight DVI hookup, or do I need a Matrox or something similar? Wouldn’t that still hook up via DVI though? I did get external previewing to work by hooking up my camcorder via firewire to my TV but I can’t hook that up every time I want to edit! That’s why I have 2 monitors!
I can get this very thing to work in Premiere Pro in about 5 seconds, so should I just return my new Mac and switch back to PC? Please tell me I’m just missing something…