how do I fill a 16:9 screen?

Terry Esslinger wrote on 9/12/2008, 8:02 PM
I am going crazy here t5ryonng to figure out how to make a wide screen DVD that fills the screen on a 16:9 television.
I shot in 16:9 DV with FX1. The monitor on the camera is filled nicely.
I then capture in Vegas with the DV capture utility and the preview is widescreen and filled. I set my properties for the Vegas project at STSC widescreen (720x480) and the Vegas preview shows widescreen and filled. I render to DVDA NTSC widescreen video MPEG2 with aspect ratio set at 16"9 display. I open AVDA and take the files into it (5) with project video format set at MPEG2 740-480 60i
16:9. and it fills the preview screen in DVDA. I then make the DVD and when I play it I get a pillared picture on my 16:9 TV. I even tried the stretch to output frame check box. Did not help. What am I doing wrong?

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/12/2008, 8:18 PM
sounds like your TV is setup wrong.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 9/12/2008, 10:15 PM
TV plays back 16:9 commercial movies full screen as well as HD broadcasts which are 16:9. I can fill the screen by a zoom feature but that loses some of the real estate and resolution takes a hit.
lasty2222 wrote on 9/17/2008, 10:22 AM
It happens to me as well. Did you get the solution?
Terry Esslinger wrote on 9/17/2008, 9:23 PM
Not Yet. Anybody have any answers for us??
PeterWright wrote on 9/17/2008, 9:25 PM
It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong -every DVD I make these days is widescreen from start in Vegas to finish in DVDA, and it fills widescreen players fine.

I even have a current project which is mainly 4:3, created 10 years ago, but I've added a new Widescreen movie to it and when this is played it fills a 16:9 screen completely, whilst playing an old 4:3 clip from the same DVD creates black bars at the side (Project properties are 4:3).

So it sounds like a settings issue, either on your DVD player or TV. Good luck sorting it out - it seems every type of TV or DVD player has its own way of doing things ....
tcbetka wrote on 9/19/2008, 7:06 PM
I am not sure this is the answer to your problem, as I am just learning Vegas myself. But I was surfing YouTube tonight and ran across this video:



It isn't about 16:9 aspect ratio per se, but the speaker talks about setting that for an output ratio, at about 1:00 on the video. Have a peek...at least it won't take you long. You probably have already tried this, but I thought I'd throw it out there nonetheless.

TB
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 9/20/2008, 9:51 AM
its 720 by 576 you want not 480 this is for PAL

Just noted your NTSC
MSK wrote on 9/24/2008, 2:08 PM
You could browse to the folder with rendered media clip and right click on it in Vegas Explorer window; choose Properties. Under Media tab, to verify that it was rendered properly look at the pixel aspect ratio. If anything other than 1.2121 is listed, then incorrect template may have been chosen when you rendered. May help in your investigation.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 9/24/2008, 4:54 PM
Interesting: I taped a kids football game with FX1 set to DV widescreen. Captured into Vegas with project properties set to DV widescreen. Edited it. Then rendered to MPEG2 Main Concept DVDA compatable widescreen (all using the default settings) Then prepared DVD as widescreen NTSC with defauklt settings (except changed the minimum bit rate to 4,500,000) and burned a DVD. PLayed beautifully on 16:9 TV and played letterboxed on 4:3 tv. Just like I wanted. Duh!