Multi-track authoring (16x9, 4x3)

NhikRath wrote on 5/30/2003, 1:36 AM

I'm getting ready to author a large number of video files of various formats and sizes. One of my main goals, obviously, is to maintain video resolution for all my videos, and the main problem is what seems to be some difficulty in authoring both 16x9 and 4x3 projects. Where do I select for some videos to be anamorphic 16x9 and for some to be strictly 4x3? Should I simply VV4-render all into 4x3, or do you suggest rendering 16x9 files as 16x9-anamorphic and 4x3 files as 16x9 right-left "letterboxed"? I'm led to believe DVDA supports anamorphic 16x9, is this correct? and if so, are there any problems with it that I should be aware of (things I should be sure to select)?

Thank you for your help, I hope I've been clear.

Comments

Vulcan wrote on 5/30/2003, 5:09 PM

DVD-A is multi VTS which means that you can have video with different AR's (don't know about the menu). I have authored discs with a 16:9 and 4:3 mix on the same disc and both the 16:9 and 4:3 assets comes out right.

Hans

rwizard wrote on 6/1/2003, 2:18 AM

Currently working in dvda with all 16:9 content/menus, before that I was using dvdit pe which insists on 4:3 menus for 16:9 content.

One thing I noticed, which you might want to watch for, is that coming out of a 4:3 menu into 16:9 the dvd player / tv set, not sure which, seems to have to think about what's going on, with the result that there is some momentary visual readjusting.

My fix was to a quick fade up from black into the 16:9.

Richard

SonySDB wrote on 6/3/2003, 8:30 AM

The video's aspect ratio can be set in the Optimize DVD dialog (File | Optimize DVD...). For 16x9, set the video's format to 'NTSC Wide' (or 'PAL Wide').