Preview 4:3 instead of 16:9

AWKEU wrote on 5/6/2009, 9:11 PM

Hi,

I have DVDA4.5d which came with Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum.
What I found is preview and burning in 4:3 format even though I set 16:9
After editing (set 16:9) and render I added my video to DVDA. I set everything to 16:9 and all tamplates are shown as I set. However when I preview it shows videos as 4:3 (square). Why is that? Furthermore, I burned DVD and after that I decided to make copy using DVD Clone. What was surprise for me, when software showed me data as follows: "NTSC DV mpeg 4:3"
Is this because of DVDA? I think this is reason I have not so good quality when I watch as 16:9 on my LCD 37". I record in HD 1920x1080 but my project is 720x480 NTSC Widescreen.
Any help is very appreciated
Thank You

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 5/7/2009, 9:14 AM

I think we're not getting all the information.

If your rendered material is 16:9 MPEG-2, and your DVDA Project Properties are set 16:9, you will get a widescreen DVD.

If the DVDA Project Properties are not set properly, or if your video is in the wrong format, then you will not get widescreen.

AWKEU wrote on 5/8/2009, 12:47 AM

Thanks. I figured out this later. What I needed to do was Render for DVDA Widescreen video only and after that audio seperate into AC-3. It worked perfect. No idea why do we need to render Video and Audio seperate in oprder to get what we want to in DVDA.

musicvid10 wrote on 5/8/2009, 2:42 PM

"No idea why do we need to render Video and Audio seperate in oprder to get what we want to in DVDA."

That's because the preferred audio format for DVD is AC-3, not MPEG audio.
AC-3 audio cannot be rendered into an MPEG-2 file in Vegas.

It also gives you the flexibility of having more than one audio track on your DVD, such as for a second language, a narrative, or some other purpose. Hope this answers your question.

AWKEU wrote on 5/9/2009, 12:06 AM

Thank You a lot for very clear explanation.
I very appreciate it :)

bStro wrote on 5/9/2009, 1:53 PM

For the record, whether you encode as one complete file or as a separate audio and video file has absolutely no bearing on whether your DVD Architect project will end up 4:3 or 16:9. A single muxed file just means that DVD Architect has to re-encode the audio stream.

If your second render fixed your problem, my guess would be that you accidentally chose a 4:3 template the first time.

Rob

AWKEU wrote on 5/13/2009, 3:10 AM

Hi Rob,

Thank you for reply. I didn`t use 4:3 accidentally. In some point it didn`t render in 16:9
I even watched tutorial how to make 16:9 on DVDA, folllowed advise but still had 4:3
By choosing template 16:9 doesn`t mean, movie is made 16:9. After all, by searching Google I found a forum where people had the same problem. This is where I found out about video and audio render seperate. Even Sony don`t explain where can I get audio when I choose to render DVD for DVDA Wildscreen.
Anyway, problem has been solved and I`m happy now :)
THANK YOU ALL FOR RESPONSES