Projects played on 16:9 HD TV

Cooldraft wrote on 5/30/2006, 8:23 AM

How do you make a video 'safe/non-fat'. I have noticed that when I play my videos they are always fat on my hd tv. It is stretching for 16:9. Normal tv does not look this way. Is there something that I should set in vegas. I don't know if the client has a HD set, and don't want the client/talent fatter :)

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DavidMcKnight wrote on 5/30/2006, 12:50 PM

K,

What are your project properties? Mine are always NTSC DV, and on my hd set it's in standard 4:3 ratio. Any stretching I have to do at the set itself. Could it be the input you're using on the set - maybe that input is set to stretch? Or, a setting on the dvd player?

David Jimerson wrote on 5/30/2006, 6:14 PM

What are you playing them on the TV with? DVD? Straight from the camera?

Most HDTVs let you set the properties for each input separately, so if you have your inputs from cable or from an antenna set to display 4:3 correctly, you might have the inputs for your DVD player or camera set correctly. Check into that.

riredale wrote on 5/30/2006, 9:30 PM

This is one of my pet peeves. I go into a fancy hotel, and in the lounge there is a gorgeous 16:9 plasma on the wall, and all the people on the screen are fat. I tell the people in charge to change the aspect ratio, and they look at me like I'm from Mars.

Either they honestly don't realize that 4:3 video is NOT supposed to look this way, or they feel the screen would look "broken" if there were vertical black bars on the sides.