[Ron Davison]

Thanks Danny for your quick reply. To answer some of your questions I only require regular (non-HD) DVD as i don’t have bluRay burner yet and final destination is a DVD to play on flatscreen (16:9) tv. In terms of picture resolution i scaled them (the still photos) down using LightRoom so the longest edge is 1440. I do have some .mts files in the mix that were shot with SonyHandyCam AVCHD 1440×1080 format. So my final project is a combination of stills and photos with lots of panning and transitions.

A couple of things that are confusing me that perhaps you can shed some light and maybe what’s causing me problems – and that is the relationship to what you put in the project properites and what you pick to render….In the project properties i use a template calaled HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080) as this matches the output of my video recorder. I take it the information in the project properties has everything to do with media that you are reading and is not related to anything to do with rendering?? If i use something like NTSC DV Widescreen in the project properties i get a tiny bar on the left and right side when i preview and render. I guess this is because I ‘cropped’ all stills to use ‘Match output aspect’ when the project properties was using HDV 1080-60i….

Sorry for the rambling here….maybe a better question to ask is this. Given i am creating a project destined for a regular DVD player on a 16:9 flatscreen and the project content contains HDV 1440×1080 along with still photos…what should i setup my project properties and how should i set my rendering properties for best results?

Thx again for your help (and patience!)

[Ron Davison]

Thanks Danny – this does help. Guess i’ll be asking Santa for BluRay burner :(. So when you say render as “WMVHD or HD mpegs” is there a specific template i can use or are there some custom settings within one of the templates i need to make. Thanks again

Ron

[Ron Davison]

Sprague – I’m having the same issue – would you be able to share what settings made it successful to burn HD DVD. I’m getting tiny black vertical bars on each side when i render the project

[Ron Davison]

Thanks Jeremy – i’ll take a look at the trial