Wide Screen Process

diggersf wrote on 2/3/2004, 4:09 PM

What is the difference between 16:9 and NTSC DV Widescreen? Vegas dosn't seem to have a 16:9 template so is it alright to use the "NTSC DV Widescreen" template for widescreen projects?

There seems to be serveral methods of changing aspect ratio. For example project properties template, the individual event properties and then render properties.

I would like to go from a consumer miniDV camera to a widescreen dvd. I have DVD architect. Can someone give me some info about settings? Also, if I make a DVD with DVD Architect's Widescreen template, what will happen when it is place in a 4:9 TV? Thanks for reading all of this and thanks for any help!

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the_learninator wrote on 2/3/2004, 4:18 PM

stick a widescreen DVD movie in your 4.9 TV it should look exactly like they look. I'm using the dvd-a widescreen NTSC template the video looks pretty good. (not as good as the original .AVI but still pretty good). I heard one of these Sony forum admins say it's better to go with the templates because when you fool around with them it may make something incompatible when it's time to burn it to a Disc.

Guy Bruner wrote on 2/3/2004, 4:20 PM

For miniDV cams (720x480), 16:9 and DV Widescreen are the same. The NTSC DV Widescreen template is what you want to render to before authoring. DVDA will author your DVD with the widescreen bit set so that a DVD player will recognize it as widescreen and either play it that way on a 16:9 TV or letterbox it on a 4:3.

diggersf wrote on 2/3/2004, 4:47 PM

Thanks for all this help. I dont have a WS tv so I dont know what happends with menus. Do the menu stretch to fit the screen or only the movie. The menus of DVD i have dont letter box.

FuTz wrote on 2/3/2004, 4:57 PM

I know that this won't answer directly your question but there's good information about widescreen at this adress:

http://www.bbctraining.co.uk/onlineCourse.asp?tID=5173&cat=2781

... reading for when you got spare time ; )