I've been exporting 16X9 sequences from FCP, changing the video settings in QT to 853X480 to get IDVD to burn a 16X9 DVD for a long time now. Has always been fine. All of a sudden, its not working. The DVD is playing squished ( black bars left and right) in a 16X9 window... Has something changed? I have to REALLY pre-widen the image in QT to get it to fill the IDVD 16X9 window, and that seems to be introducing a host of other problems ( green line on the bottom of the screen, interlacing crappy looking image, etc)
I know I can move to DVDSP, but I really like the animated templates on iDVD ( or the one I constantly use anyway) and this ( i should say THESE- 3 projects- same result) is a one clip simple DVD. Throw the clip onto the menu and its done..
In any case I hate to leave a good mystery unsolved
ps- one oddity I havent pinned down. I have seen some files come out of FCP as 873 X 480, instead of 853? related?
Thanks
Paul
MacPro
FCP 7
Idvd7