The DV Widescreen thing!

lnetzel wrote on 8/1/2003, 2:43 AM

I have a Panasonic NV-MX500 and I asked before about this stuff but this is a followup question.. not the same question again.

Since my camera cam caprute in REAL widescreen and it gets anamorphic on the computer i think (still 720x576 (PAL) but another aspect ratio). What happens when I encode this to DVD format (mpeg-2)? I don't have a DVD burner yet so I can't try. But I want to know if I can make Anamorphic movies on DVD too? not just Anamorphic *.AVIs (dv codec).

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RBartlett wrote on 8/1/2003, 5:01 AM

DVDA has widescreen support - partly by virtue of Vegas having project profiles and encoding options also in 16:9.

You can create 4:3 letterbox aswell - but you probably wouldn't with such a nice camera.

Widescreen on DVD is anamorphic - there is nothing wider than 720x576 on the DVD options. Just as the adjustment of AR on the timeline to widescreen doesn't change the number of pixels (by default). Hope this is accurate as I've taken a while of cutting through the hype of camera and playback technology to reach this conclusion.

Zendorf wrote on 8/1/2003, 5:39 AM

The way I do it is to render out a PAL DV Widescreen file from Vegas, which keeps it anamorphic and then (assuming you are getting DVDA) re-render this in DVDA using standard PAL settings(you could also use the widescreen PAL preset if you want your menu in widescreen). I prefer to render from Vegas as DV files and let DVDA do the mpeg encoding when I am authoring...a little tip I learned from Spot. If you aren't going to use DVDA...well someone else may be more equiped to give you the skinny on widescreen mpegs...

lnetzel wrote on 8/1/2003, 7:23 AM

thank you for the info all of you! ! I will probably use DVDA then, when I get a DVD burner!