Aspect ratio settings...16:9 vs; 4:3

Daddy wrote on 3/9/2004, 2:43 PM

I am setting up a video to play back on a 60" plasma monitor and I want to make sure that the 16:9 ratio is correct when I am editing in Movie studio. How can I be sure?

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Kikikins wrote on 3/9/2004, 3:02 PM

Wow, I was just going to post the same basic question. I want to do a presentation that is played on a widescreen TV - so which setting is best?? The NTSC DV and NTSC DV Widescreen project settings are both 720x480, so I'm not sure what the difference is between the two.

Also, when panning/cropping, and using a preset, I'm assuming I should use the 16:9 preset, right?

Thanks in advance!

allyn wrote on 3/10/2004, 7:34 AM

assuming you have anamorphic widescreen souce material, you'll want to use the ntsc widescreen project type and the widescreen presets in the pan/crop dialogs. if you have 4:3 format source material or "cropped 16:9" you may as well just use the ntsc project because you don't really have widescreen video.

here's the only catch: movie studio doesn't allow mpeg-2 encoding in widescreen format. what you end up doing is encoding to mpeg-2 using the regular ntsc dvd template, then using a free tool called dvdpatcher to change a field in the file header from 4:3 to 16:9, and then burn it to dvd. you can still use the mydvd software, this works fine.

more details in this thread:
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=241236

Daddy wrote on 3/11/2004, 6:13 PM

Thank you for your responce. Where do I get this DVDpatch for burning to a 16:9 ratio final format?