SVCD weirdness in VV3

Former user wrote on 7/31/2003, 8:52 AM

I am still using VV3, can't afford 4 right now.

Ran into something I have not noticed using the Cookie Cutter and creating an SVCD. The SVCD was just to check content and flow.

I used an OVAL cookie cutter to hightlight a football player. The oval was vertical (tall). After creating an SVCD, the oval appeared more circular. My feeling is since SVCD is 480 x 480, the oval was rendered at an oval, but did not take into account the change of aspect for the SVCD. Thus when it was aspected correctly for viewing, it was stretched horizontally and looked like a circle.

Has anyone else noticed this and is there a workaround. I know I can make an AVI file and then create the SVCD from that, but I was curious about this situation.

Thanks Dave T2

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mikkie wrote on 7/31/2003, 9:09 AM

Seems I recall something similar in an earlier thread or two...

Rendering to SVCD mpg2, normally turn off aspect from a 720 x 480 frame & proj. so that the video will fill the frame. Generated media/FX go off the proj settings, so they don't always stretch like the rest of the video. Don't recall all the methods suggested, besides the obvious pre-render, but you might want to try the stretch to fill frame box on the render as dialog (doesn't always work but might in this case).

Former user wrote on 7/31/2003, 9:31 AM

Thanks, I will do a search to see if I can find the other threads. I didn't remembering this being brought up, but I might have just missed it.

Dave T2

farss wrote on 7/31/2003, 9:50 AM

I've only used TMPGenc to create SVCD and haven't notice anything going wierd with AR, but what did you play it on.

If you just played out the MPEG2 from the SVCD on a PC it would probably play it as 480x480.

In a real SVCD or DVD player it must convert the aspect, just so it fills the screen.

Former user wrote on 7/31/2003, 10:01 AM

I played it on a DVD player. The picture aspect was played correctly, but the previous OVAL had become a CIRCLE. The rendering did not account for the aspect change.

I could frameserve it to TMPGEnc and it would probably be correct. Thanks for the idea!

Dave T2