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Mix aspect ratios?Posted by Stu_Jaimison
Using DVD Studio Pro 4, telling it to be a 16:9 format automatically creates HD DVD.
There is NO real 16:9 SD media so something here is misleading. Are you using anamorphic recorded SD looking like 16:9 or what? What camera/format were these clips recorded into? The output of Compressor can change formats to some degree, but it may take a very long time.
This brings up an interesting point, though.
For the past few years, we have been been shooting and editing everything in HDV - 16:9. Very infrequently, we have had to put 4:3 footage on our DVDs that are 16:9 anamorphic...for example, we shot a wedding and edited the whole thing, and the customer wants us to put on their photo montage that someone else did for them that's in 4:3. I have just been doing that in DVDSP...controlling the aspect ratio that way, but now I'm changing my methods...starting today, actually. All my menus are setup for 16:9 Pan/Scan and Widescreen, and all the videos are 16:9 widescreen. This way, the menu will fill the entire screen, regardless of TV size, and the video will fill the screen on a widescreen TV, and be letterboxed on an old fashioned 4:3 TV. I have a corporate project now that has all been shot and edited in HDV, but now they want to add some old footage to the DVD...as a separate menu item. This time, I'm going to import the 4:3 footage into my HDV timeline (a 16:9 SD timeline could be used too), and put it over a background (like what you see on network HD programming when they're mixing SD footage), and import that into DVDSP as 16:9 Pan/Scan and Widescreen, so that the aspect ratio is always correct...and not stretched wide on a 16:9 TV. The things we gotta do.... Casey www.unitedvideoinc.com
Just to confirm:
You can have 4:3 & 16:9 menus in a project with no problem. You can also have 4:3 Menus with 16:9 Tracks if you want. Using DVD Studio Pro 4, telling it to be a 16:9 format automatically creates HD DVD - This is not true so something else is up if this is happening to you. There is NO real 16:9 SD media so something here is misleading. - This is not true. Recordable media doesn't have an aspect ratio. Basically, display flags are read which tell the player how to display the content and your TV/DVD Player settings should ideally match to get the expected output. Sorry, you do not have permission to post/reply in this forum.
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