DVDSP 16x9 Best Quality DVD Please ignore if easily upset

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bentramer81

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Well I figured out that the problem I had before was my dvd burner was bad, so I got an external one and it's working like a champ. And also my source was wrong the new iDVD doesn't work with mpeg2.


Question: (Regarding DVDSP)

In "preferences" what all do I need to click on to ensure that my dvd is a "true" 16x9 image and the highest quality. The footage is made into m-Peg2 and dolby 2.0 using compressor 90 min. best quality. (from what I have read this is supposed to be the best)
 
It automatically will be a 16x9 movie if you used the widescreen (16x9) preset in Compressor. You can verify that it's correct by using the 'simulate' button in dvdsp.

The quality is determined when you compress it and make the mpeg2 file. DVDSP only points the player to your file.
 
Tim is right. Might also want to make sure your menus are 16x9. Click on menu. In the "menu" tab in the inspector window, be sure "display mode" is set to 16x9 letterbox.

I like the title of this thread.
 
Here's another quick question, what is Pan-Scan and why would I choose it over the other settings?

And correct me if I'm wrong but you can make a 16x9 image in compressor but click on 4x3 in DVDSP. Also, by veiwing your film in the simulate box would not necessarily be obvious if it's 4x3 or 16x9 if it is automatically fitted. I'm sure some people will say just look for the letter boxing, but I've made 4x3 shorts that are letter boxed too.
 
Pan & Scan is a way of showing a widescreen (16:9, or 1.85:1, or 2.35:1, etc) frame in a 4x3 area. It basically consists of cropping the widescreen frame off at the sides (usually only left and right sides), and panning with the action (i.e. following, say, the main actors in a shot, wherever they move). It'd be like like reframing a widescreen project in post if you wanted a 4:3 version that wasn't letterboxed. I'd also imagine that since keyframing every frame would be a *****, that the 'Scan' part of Pan & Scan would point to some automatic way of tracking the main elements in an image.
 
Don't be so hard on yourself. You asked a question and hoped to get some answers. Sometimes I post the same question on 3 different websites before I am satisfied! LOL!
 
Dingos8mybaby said:
Pan & Scan is a way of showing a widescreen (16:9, or 1.85:1, or 2.35:1, etc) frame in a 4x3 area. It basically consists of cropping the widescreen frame off at the sides (usually only left and right sides), and panning with the action (i.e. following, say, the main actors in a shot, wherever they move). It'd be like like reframing a widescreen project in post if you wanted a 4:3 version that wasn't letterboxed. I'd also imagine that since keyframing every frame would be a *****, that the 'Scan' part of Pan & Scan would point to some automatic way of tracking the main elements in an image.
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I'll turn Pan-Scan off since it's not a true 16x9 image, thanks for the valuable info., now if I could only get DVDSP to detect my burner... :(
 
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