720 vs 1080... Full Screen

bydavidrosen wrote on 5/1/2014, 5:09 PM

Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly... But I have a 1080p video file. If I really wanted to go through the trouble, I could convert it from quicktime to any file format that Windows DVD Maker supports (MP4, WMV, AVI) and import it and then burn it to a DVD and go play it on my Playstation3 on my 1080P HDTV and it plays full screen.

However, I just got Vegas 13Pro with DVD Architect, partially so I could just skip all of that and burn quicktime files directly, however it only allows me to choose up to 720p. When I choose that and burn a DVD and then go play it on my Playstation 3, it plays in a window in the middle of the screen.

What am I doing wrong here that's making it not play full screen? I'm obviously not going to change settings on the playstation... You can't expect your viewers to change settings to get a DVD to play full screen... It's gotta be either with the file or the software, right?

Thanks for your help!

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/1/2014, 6:58 PM

Are you trying to create a DVD or a BluRay disc?

DVDs are standard definition, 720x480 videos by definition. There is no such thing as a DVD as a 1080p DVD.

Or are you not trying to create a BluRay or DVD at all -- in which case, I'm not sure why you're posting this question to the DVD Architect forum.

You say you're outputting a 1280x720p MOV from Movie Studio? Then you say you're burning DVD. What are you burning of DVD of? Are you just burning the MOV to a DVD disc? Or are you porting that 1280x720 video into DVD Architect -- in which case the DVD you produce from it will be 720x480 standard definition.

So can you clarify what you're trying to do? Are you trying to output a DVD or a BluRay disc -- or something else? And how are you involving DVD Architect in the process?

musicvid10 wrote on 5/2/2014, 8:17 PM

Also, you cannot "burn" Quicktime files to DVD or BluRay.
DVD is mpeg-2, BluRay is mpeg-2 or avc.