I have a video from a Panasonic HD SD700. It is 1920/1080 50P. I turned it into an mp4 in Vegas Studio using DVD Architect PAL Widescreen video stream. Other methods (Main Concept mp4, avi and Sony's mp4 offerings) gave the same problem.

The output from Vegas is fine, but when I then use DVDA to prepare files for DVD, I have had the following results.
- the bottom third of the screen was green OR
- the aspect ratio was full widescreen as for big screen movies. This made the A/R of the video wide to screen width, but not high enough
- the video was correct A/R but letterboxed.

This has happened when playing in in Media Player, Media Player Classic, and VLC.

The preview in DVDA letter boxes the video. It reaches neither the sides nor the top and bottom of the preview screen

Any help greatly appreciated. Please see MediaInfo for both videos below.

HAHA! BTW "dogscrap"was about dogs "scrapping" (fighting, although they were just playing) not what I can now see it could mean :)

Nick

MediaInfo for Vegas output (using DVD Architect PAL Widescreen video stream)
General
Complete name : C:\NickDocs\Vegas\dogscrap.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 3.79 MiB
Duration : 3s 0ms
Overall bit rate : 10.6 Mbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
Duration : 3s 0ms
Bit rate : 10.4 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 9 800 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Bottom Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.003
Stream size : 3.72 MiB (98%)

MediaInfo for Vegas output (using avi encoding)
General
Complete name : C:\NickDocs\Vegas\dogscrap.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Commercial name : DV
File size : 32.6 MiB
Duration : 8s 960ms
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 30.5 Mbps
Recorded date : 2013-02-03 16:35:40.000
TCOD : 98800000
TCDO : 188400000

Video
ID : 0
Format : DV
Codec ID : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint : Sony
Duration : 8s 960ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Stream size : 30.8 MiB (94%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 8s 960ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.64 MiB (5%)
Interleave, duration : 280 ms (7.00 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration : 280 ms

MediaInfo for the output from DVDA
General
Complete name : C:\NickDocs\DVD Arch Out\Untitled1\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 2.86 MiB
Duration : 4s 938ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 4 857 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 4s 938ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 761 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 9 500 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Bottom Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.460
Stream size : 2.80 MiB (98%)

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