16:9 footage stretched on external monitor?

Luxo wrote on 7/7/2003, 2:47 PM
I have an NTSC DV Widescreen project with 16:9 footage. It looks great in the preview window but when previewing on an external monitor the footage is stretched to fullscreen anywhere there are no FX applied. When FX or transitions are applied, the output is properly letterboxed for that segment.

As a workaround I applied a black & white FX filter to the entire project and left the value at zero. Now all of the footage is displayed at the proper aspect ratio all the time, but the framerate has dropped slightly. Is there a better solution, save buying a professional monitor or TV with a widescreen switch?

Comments

Alliante wrote on 7/7/2003, 3:43 PM
Do you have your project settings set to DV Widescreen NSTC? :)

I've not yet tried this (not near my NLE right now), but I've read last week here that this is the magic key to help you along.
videoarts wrote on 7/7/2003, 4:20 PM
Right...make sure your project settings are adjusted for 16:9, but also, you can right click your preview window and select the aspect ratio simulation to get a 16:9 preview.
Luxo wrote on 7/7/2003, 5:25 PM
Yeah, the project is set to DV Widescreen, and the preview window is set to simulate the proper aspect ratio. It looks fine down there.

The problem is with the external monitor. I believe this has been raised on the forum before, I just wondered if there was a better solution than the one I found.
24PFilmmaker wrote on 7/7/2003, 7:25 PM
Is your footage 16x9? if so, here what you do...if you want to see letter box on external monitor set your project property to regular 4x3 DV setting...but your preview will be squeezed of course...unless you have that production monitor that can be switch between the two...then you don't have to do anything mention above...It's a catch-22.
Luxo wrote on 7/7/2003, 7:37 PM
Ha! Right you are. How strange. Still it looks like the framerate is lower than a perfect 29.97. Thanks for the tip though.
24PFilmmaker wrote on 7/7/2003, 8:01 PM
Vegas is funny in the way that you have to play it couple of times for it to run at the perfect rate.
PumiceT wrote on 3/6/2005, 5:15 PM
Such a similar problem, not worth making a new thread...

Hardware: Canopus ADVC-100
Software: Vegas 5.0d

Trying to preview a NTSC DV Widescreen project on external monitor, I'm getting stretched full-screen. I've changed the settings between widescreen and standard NTSC, and it showed up correctly ONCE. I don't know what setting made it work, but, it won't go back!
farss wrote on 3/7/2005, 2:55 AM
Normal monitors cannot display 16x9 correctly.
If you send them correct 16:9 then it should look exactly the same as 4:3 but with everything squashed i.e. people are taller.
IF you have a 16:9 capable monitor then it should respond to the 16:9 flag and auto switch the pixel AR but I've noticed a few things that don't seem to work quite right in that respect. One that doesn't get it screwed up though is Vegas. If the monitor doesn't autoswitch then you might need to force it into 16:9.
Bob.
JJKizak wrote on 3/7/2005, 5:24 AM
I have also found that if you take a 4 x 3 letterbox project (16 x 9) and change the preferences to 16 x 9 and render it widescreen to DVD it gets full of wormy noise, but if you render it standard NTSC and render it to DVD then zoom it out with the tv set zoom it looks great.

JJK