SVCD and aspect ratio

vitalforce2 wrote on 4/12/2003, 7:13 PM

Question. I have a CD burner, Vegas+DVD (saving up for the DVD burner), and DVD Movie Factory 2 which will reliably crank out a generic SVCD so that the video can be kept up to roughly MPEG-2 quality. Put a 9-minute demo trailer of a movie I'm editing onto a CD that way this afternoon (rendered to a 24p avi file, then had MF bring the avi in, change it to MPEG-2 and make the SVCD), and was faced with the "skinny" picture caused by the different aspect ratio of SVCDs.

Wonder if someone has worked out the "anti-ratio" at which to set DV when rendering an avi in Vegas, making it wider (similar idea as an anamorphic lens), so that the corresponding "squeeze" of SVCD formatting would yield video with content matching what appeared in the original aspect ratio?

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/13/2003, 7:18 AM

All SVCD's are 1x1 aspect radio (because they're 480x480). This shouldn't pose a problem to you when you render. Whe I make a video CD from a non-480x480 source, (like 720x480 or 640x480) it doesn't crop your picture, it just elimnates some horizontal pixels. Also, when endering, check the "Stretch Output Frame (don't letterbox)".

Former user wrote on 4/13/2003, 10:55 AM

A standard VCD will always be 480 by 480 regardless of the original source. If you are playing on a DVD player, this will be compensated for, if you are playing on a computer, then you need to use software that knows what DVD is. If you are making your file just for a computer, you can make it any ratio you want by setting custom sizes and not using the standard SVCD template.

Dave T2

stormstereo wrote on 4/13/2003, 11:04 AM

A little tip if you maybe just never thought of it. You can burn a VCD directly from within Vegas 4 instead of going through Movie Factory.
Best/Tommy