[Paul Crowe]

Jim,

been using M100 for seven years +. I’ve rarely had a problem with it. But when I have, it’s mostly been due to a box I’ve forgotten to tick.

Hmm, sound familiar?

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

You could. Export the movie out of M100 as a refference file. Then use Boris or After Efects to turn it.

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

I was right, I was being dumb.

Doh!!

[Paul Crowe]

“I’m not familiar with Toast for DVD authoring. Forgive me if I’m covering something you already know.”

No worries, Wayne it was hearing it again that got me to thinking…and I stumbled onto this simple ‘freeware’ solution. So thanks!!

For anyone who’s got Toast and is interested for future refference. Not sure if it’s the ultimate solution, but it worked a treat for getting the
movies to play in the right aspect ratio for approval copies for the client (prior to having them authored properly)…

If your problem is only that the clips that were recorded as widescreen come out “squished”, here’s all you have to do in Toast:

1) Run the whole (planned) disk through Toast, but save it as a disk image. Or, if you’ve already burned a disk that’s good in all other respects,
but just has clips looking squished, put that disk in your Mac.

2) Copy the complete VIDEO_TS folder from the image (or the burned disk) to your hard disk.

3) Change the privileges on the VIDEO_TS and on all the files in it from read only to read & write. (That’s why you copied it to the hard disk,
you can’t have write access to files in a disk image)

4) Now, open this VIDEO_TS folder with MyDVDEdit. Highlight each title set in the upper left window. For each of the squished ones, click the
“IFO” button on the lower big window and change the aspect ratio, which probably says “4:3”, to “16:9 auto letterbox” using the pulldown. If any
are supposed to be 4:3 leave them alone.

5. When you’re finished, save the changes and put the VIDEO_TS into Toast in data mode (set to DVD-ROM (UDF).
You’ll probably need to Add a new VIDEO_TS folder and put the contents of the old one into it then rename the disc using _ instead of
spaces between
the title words. You might have to do this because often toast defaults to call the disc VIDEO_TS instead of just adding the whole folder to it,
it just adds the content to the data area (sounds confusing, but ti makes sense when you do it). Anyway, add another new empty folder naming
it Audio T_S. Then Burn. This disk will play just like the last one except that the titles that were recorded as widescreen will play letterboxed.

Hope this is of use to someone.

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Yes That is helpful thanks loads Chaos.

Um, this is a basic Q I know…but, you’d give each character two tracks one panned L & and one R – right? Only, I read somewhere it’s safer(?) to put em down the middle, but that seems to defy the concept of stereo.

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Man that was fast!!
Cheers for that Floh. I’ll check that out.

[Paul Crowe]

cool, thanks for that Jim

[Paul Crowe]

Sorry for the delayed reply. Thanks for that Paul, that’s outstanding customer support – I’ll do that

Cheers
TB

[Paul Crowe]

Hi Chris

the other thing your editor could do is use Flip4Mac pro to turn the files into wmv files for you to play on a pc.

cheers
tb

[Paul Crowe]

oh, yeah I should have mentioned graffitti in title mode seems to be working fine. It’s just comps in the video tracks I’m having trouble with ‘can’t find plugins’ warning comes up.

Cheers again
TB