Video Squished in DVDA

Sidecar wrote on 9/9/2004, 8:51 AM
I import 4:3 video into DVDA, author and burn. It looks fine.

I reopen the DAR file and the video is now squished on the line: the 4:3 video is now about 2.35:1. There is a large black band that takes up 20% at the top and bottom of the frame. The video is "flattened". It's full width but not height.

The original video plays normally in Windows Media Player.

I reimported it and it's still squished visually on both the time line and the preview monitor. I made a new DVDA file and it still imports squished.

The show Properties is set to NTSC 720x480 (NOT widescreen)

It's weird. I worked, then it didn't.

Comments

jleev wrote on 9/9/2004, 9:09 AM
sidecar,

See my post below. I was experiencing the same when importing elementary streams.
You need to close DVDA and delete all *.SVFX associated to the MPEG files you imported then re-open DVDA.
This work around I stumbled on my self since I haven’t been able to find any info. regarding this problem whats so ever except for Rob’s reply below.
Any thing further you come across please share.


Cheers,

J






MozartMan wrote on 9/9/2004, 9:29 AM
I found another work around.

I have multiplexed MPEG-2 file with video and AC3 audio streams. I also have just AC3 audio file demuxed from that multiplexed file in the same directory. I load that MPEG-2 file into DVDA2. Apparently DVDA uses only video stream from that multiplexed file, and picks up that AC3 file as audio stream. That's it. Works great. Every time I reopen the project video displays normally.
Sidecar wrote on 9/11/2004, 10:07 PM
Jleev,
Thanks. I'll try deleting the SVFX files. It's the strangest thing. And you're right: they are elementary streams compressed to MPEG-2 on a Mac, not encoded by Vegas's Main Concept encoder.

Dan
Sidecar wrote on 9/11/2004, 10:13 PM
kabanero,

My original files were elementary
- MPEG-2; actually, the extension was .mpv and I renamed them .mpg so DVDA would recognize them and
- WMA audio streams, not AC3.

DVDA re-compressed some of the files to prep them for burning. DVDA did it in mere seconds, by the way--so fast I thought nothing was done. But they burned to disk fine.

It's just that later when I reopened the file to show a friend what I had done, the image was, to use a technical term, "squished."

Thanks for the input.

Dan