Different 16:9 widescreen templates

wslagter wrote on 11/9/2003, 11:08 PM
The "16:9 Widescreen TV aspect ratio" Preset of the Event Pan/Crop is exactly 1:1.777 (16:9)
However, the "NTSC DV Widescreen" Template of the Project Properties has a slightly different ratio of 1:818
So when I choose this " NTSC DV Widescreen Template" of the Project Properties, the footage made with it does not exactly match my 16:9 widescreen tv ratio. (vertically slightly cut ).

Question:
Is there a way to make a custom 16:9 Template in the Project Properties so I can start my projects with the correct 16:9 settings ?

Comments

KJerome wrote on 12/26/2003, 8:48 AM
I have the same problem and havent found an answer. I get the black bars on the top and bottom of my wide screen TV.
JJKizak wrote on 12/26/2003, 9:10 AM
My opinion. The 1.77 ratio is the the exact dimension of your tv screen
and does not include the overscan which I think is 1.81 or 1.85. So what happens is the present video which is overscanned gets overscanned again after reprocessing and the picture keeps getting bigger and bigger. Also some of the widescreen tv's do not show the 16 x 9 properly as their ratio (actual) is 1.77 and when you show the 1.85 (overscan) they show the black bars. Man, I said this and I don't even know what I said.

JJK
PainterPaul wrote on 12/26/2003, 5:30 PM
If I set the Project Propteries to NTSC DV Widescreen, and go to Render, the Aspect Ratio is still 4:3 under the Custom/Video tab. I am relatively new to VV and DeskTop video in general, but I was thinking that if you don't change that aspect ratio from 4:3 before rendering, you'd have widescreen imprinted upon the 4:3 pcture size, hense, black bars on top and bottom? Just a thought.
Spot|DSE wrote on 12/27/2003, 11:43 AM
PainterPaul, you are correct. The event properties have to be set to widescreen, and the video either cropped as such, or shot as such to eliminate the letter boxing.
PAW wrote on 12/27/2003, 12:51 PM

I noticed something odd with event pan/crop, if the project is set up as widescreen (PAL in my case) and you choose 16:9 from the pan/crop presets it is a differnt size to the match output aspect - I would have thought they are the same.

Is this down to rounding errors on calculating pixel aspect ratios?

Regards, Chester