16:9 showing up as 4:3

Phil Spitler wrote on 3/22/2005, 7:26 PM

Hi,
I have some 16:9 (720 x 480) video clips that I want to use in a widescreen project.

The project is set to NTSC widescreen and the menu graphic (still) looks fine but when I bring the video clips in (QuickTime) they are shown as 4:3 with black bands either side. If I go to the "optomize" setting and manualy set the video as 16:9 aspect it still dosn't work either in preview or in the multiplexed files.

Any ideas?

Phil

Using DVDA 2.0

Comments

bStro wrote on 3/22/2005, 8:09 PM

Bug. Search the forum for SVFX.

Rob

Phil Spitler wrote on 3/22/2005, 9:00 PM

I can't see any SVFX files, only and sfk.

I delete this and I still get the same problem.

It is a QuickTime file not an mpeg file that I am using.

Phil

Kanst wrote on 3/23/2005, 12:08 AM

Simply encode it to MPEG2 in Vegas

Phil Spitler wrote on 3/23/2005, 12:35 AM

I could do that but it adds an extra step in the production process which is fine for one or two DVDs but if I am going to be doing a lot of them, I would rather just render my QuickTimes from AE and have them work in DVDA.

Thanks

Phil

bStro wrote on 3/23/2005, 6:52 PM

I doubt the fact that it's a Quicktime file is related to the widescreen issue you're having, but to be honest you may as well render to MPEG2 before bringing your movies into DVDA -- they're gonna have to be MPEG2 eventually, whether you make them so in Vegas or AE, or you let DVDA re-render them. There's no such thing as a MOV-based DVD. ;-) Doesn't AE export to MPEG2?

At any rate, you're sure the videos are actually widescreen?

Rob

Kanst wrote on 3/24/2005, 11:36 AM

Why you deside render QT from AE? It can render to DV or MJPEG avi (some codecs are free).
And 2 steps recompression is not best choise for saving quality. Also you can use some frameserver application for sending from AE timeline to any external standalone MPEG2 encoder (Vegas, MainConcept MPEG Encoder, Canopus ProCoder ets.)

Phil Spitler wrote on 3/24/2005, 6:29 PM

I render out of AE using a QT codec called MicroCosm which is an lossless codec.

I do this so that I can view the QuickTime in real time and also use it to either drop to Digi Beta or create other media files.

I could add an extra output module to my AE render queue to create the mpeg2 files at the same time the QT files are being made but it seems to make more sense if DVDA can use the QT files to let it do the mpeg2 encode.

There are plenty of work arouns but just wondered why DVDA won't let me change the QT to be 16:9 anamorph.

Phil