DVDA 3.0 16:9 video plays back 4:3

jeffk wrote on 10/20/2005, 5:07 AM

Hi All,

I've got a client coming to pick up a DVD in less than 12 hours and I can't get DVDA to burn a 16:9 DVD properly.

The footage is in 16:9 and renderd to 16:9 PAL MPEG in Vegas. WinDVD loads and plays the footage in 16:9 and both vegas and DVD Architect read it in as 16:9.

The DVD-A project is set to PAL 16:9 Widescreen. It previews on my 16:9 monitor at 16:9.

But - when I get DVD-A to create and burn the DVD, all the menus on the disc are still 16:9 and the video footage is 4:3 letterboxed...

Any help appreciated and urgently needed!

~Jeff K

Comments

Jack McCann wrote on 10/20/2005, 6:45 AM

Jeff,
Is it possible that ratio has to be changed of the TV you're view on. I know I've done that!
Jack

jeffk wrote on 10/20/2005, 6:55 AM

I only wish it were that simple... The menu on the finished DVD is playing back 16:9. Circles are circles and squares are squares so the aspect is right but the video content is playing back 4:3.

The whole project previews on the screen and on my external monitor at 16:9 from start to finish. It's only after I create the DVD that I have any issues.

The MPEG file is already renderd in Vegas at 16:9 and DVDA isn't re-rendering it so this must be happening while the DVD is being compiled, ie when the vob files are being created...

This disc has to leave on time to get to a trade show and I've laready been working 36 straight hours to get this finished so I don't even want to contemplate there not being a work around...

~Jeff K

ScottW wrote on 10/20/2005, 7:14 AM

go to www.mediachance.com and download a trial version of DVD Lab Pro (fully functional), see if you have the same problem (just create a single movie project as a test). If DVDA won't burn the project that Lab Pro creates, snag the trial version of CopyToDVD from www.vso-software.com.

I've created 16x9 stuff with Lab Pro and I know it does things correctly.

--Scott

jeffk wrote on 10/20/2005, 9:56 AM

Thanks Scott,

I've downloaded it and even though it's taking me a while to re-create the menus (mostly because I have no idea how to use it) but DVD-Lab is producing the DVD properly with all assets ending up widescreen on the disc.

I still keep hoping that I've just missed an option setting somewhere in DVDA...

~Jeff K

ScottW wrote on 10/20/2005, 10:59 AM

Did you change the DVDA project settings to be widescreen? It sounds like you did if the menus look right, but just checking.

jeffk wrote on 10/20/2005, 11:12 AM

The menus were set to widescreen and it even previews that way on my external monitor... then you burn it and it all goes downhill from there.

I used Ghost to restore my system to a fresh install of DVDA 3b and I get the same thing happening...

ECB wrote on 10/20/2005, 1:02 PM

I just authored (DVDA3.0c) a WS project with WS menus and WS video in NTSC and the DVD played fine, all in 16:9 but NTSC. I am sure you did this but did you go through setup on your DVD player and make sure it was setup for WS?

Ed B

jeffk wrote on 10/20/2005, 1:55 PM

All my DVD players are definitley set for WS - I don't actually own any 4:3 televisions or monitors any more...