mr_goodbomb
Active member
I shot on a DVX100A with widescreen bars on in-camera. I am using iDVD to burn DVDs of the film. Should the DVD project be widescreen?
Shot on DVX100A with widescreen bars, should the DVD be widescreen?
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William_Robinette
Shallow Member
No, you need to render a 4:3 DVD for it to look right. It will be both pillar and letterboxed on a widescreen TV and will display normal letterboxing on a 4:3 TV.
Barry_Green
Moderator
If you already shot letterbox, and you want to author that footage directly to DVD, you'd author it as a 4:3 DVD. Letterbox footage is 4:3 footage with black bars on it.
If you want to author a widescreen DVD, you'd have to stretch the DVX footage vertically until the letterbox bars were cropped off.
If you want to author a widescreen DVD, you'd have to stretch the DVX footage vertically until the letterbox bars were cropped off.
mr_goodbomb
Active member
The test DVD I did was 4:3 and it cut the edges of the menu image off. Not sure why this is, it's a 720x480 image.
Barry_Green
Moderator
Both 16:9 and 4:3 are 720x480 in standard-def. The resolution doesn't change, it's the shape of the pixels that changes.
mr_goodbomb
Active member
Thanks, Barry. You're always a big help.