Changing Pixel Aspect Ratio in DVDA

goodtimej wrote on 7/18/2007, 4:04 PM

Hey. I have a widescreen clip that I created in After Effects, and as such, it has a square Pixel Aspect Ratio.
I come into DVDA and create a NTSC widescreen project and pull that file into the project, and it will only play in 4:3.
I know in Vegas, to get the program to recognize the 1.2 par, you have to change the properties in the media pool.
How do I do the same in DVDA? Thanks a lot!

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MPM wrote on 7/25/2007, 5:17 PM

Widescreen video for DVD should be sized to a std DVD frame with 720 width, then encoded to DVD compliant mpg2 using the 16:9 flag or setting. This is what players and authoring software expect -- on playback it'll expand back out to wide screen.. BTW DVDs only have 2 aspect ratios: 4:3 & 16:9, which is set by or in the clip.