Aspect ratio when burning DVD

UlfLaursen wrote on 2/6/2008, 11:06 PM

Hi

I have another question :-)

I have shot some wide footage, and capturet into a DV PAL wide project. I render to DVDA MPEG2. I import into DVDA with single movie into a PAL Wide project, and everything looks wide.

When I play back my DVD on my JVC videomonitor, which is default 4:3, I get letterbox, and that is ok.

When I play back on my widescreen TV in the livingroom, I get widescreen AND letterbox, which I don't want of course.

Is this a setting already in render I have to change?

Thanks a million :-)

/Ulf

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 2/6/2008, 11:27 PM

If everything from Vegas thru' to DVDA has been widescreen it's probably your TV or DVD player that needs the aspect ratio setting - check the setup menus.

UlfLaursen wrote on 2/6/2008, 11:54 PM

Thanks Peter, but I'm still confused.

I think I have checked everything on the TV too.

Could it be the checkbox that is named something like "strecht do not letterbox" in the renderdialog somewhere (do not have my vegas machine here at work)?

Thanks.

/Ulf

PeterWright wrote on 2/7/2008, 12:23 AM

Yes, that box should be checked - but if it was shot widescreen, edited in a widescreen project and rendered as widescreen it wouldn't make a big difference - maybe get rid of a thin black line at the sides.

Have you checked if there's a setting in the DVD player?

farss wrote on 2/7/2008, 12:29 AM

Probably not.
You need to check the setup of both the DVD player and the TV.
There's a setting in DVD players that tell it what kind of TV it's connected to and how to handle a 16:9 DVD.

If you shot 16:9 (which camera BTW?), edited that on a 16:9 T/L and it looked like 16:9 in Vegas's 16:9 preview window and you encoded to mpeg-2 with the 16:9 flag set i.e. used a 16:9 template and authored a DVD in DVDA using a 16:9 template then you have produced a 16:9 DVD.

They're pretty much all I do these days unless it's legacy footage and all work correctly. I cannot say the same for TVs and DVD players and how people set them up. My TV will correctly recognise the 16:9 flags from OTA DVB however it doesn't 'see' the 16:9 flag coming from the DVD player so everytime I play a 16:9 DVD I have to manually switch the TV back into 16:9.

If you're not confused yet there's more. Most TVs menus when it comes to 16:9 setup are plain confusing. I think on mine "Normal" is 16:9 and wide almost cinemascope with bars top and bottom to make room for subtitles.

You could try playing your DVD in your PC. All the software players I've tried seem to get it right.

Bob.

UlfLaursen wrote on 2/7/2008, 1:23 AM

Thanks Peter and Bob - appreciate it. I'll test tonight

/Ulf

UlfLaursen wrote on 2/7/2008, 9:04 PM

You were right, Bob (again...) :-)

Made a test just with some generated media for 1 min. - all wide.

Played back on laptop, 100% ok - good for reference, I think.
Played back in livingroom on old CRT TV, Ok.
Played back on cheap player on a small LCD TV in my working room, it automaticly zoomed in.
Played back on another set top player in my working room on my prof. JVC CRT videomonitor, which is 4:3 - I had the bars.

/Ulf