Squeeze to DVD on widescreen TV is stretched...

dbarak

dbarak

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At the risk of beating a dead horse, I have a questio n about squeeze mode footage on DVD. I tried searching here and found hundreds of threads. Here's my problem:

I've been doing some playing around, trying to find the best way to do some 3D animation for stuff shot in squeeze mode. As a result, I burned some DVDs with footage shot in squeeze.

When I play the DVDs through a wide screen TV, the taped footage is stretched horizontally, bordered on the top and bottom with black bars as if it were letterboxed. The footage plays with a normal letterbox appearance on a 4:3 TV.

I exported to DVD from Premiere Pro 1.5. One DVD was burned as 16x9 anamorphic, and one was burned as 4x3, and both showed the same thing on both TS. The only TV to display correctly was the 4x3.

Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong? Again, I did a search here but found hundreds of threads with potential answers.

Thanks!

Dave
 
What format project are you working in?

As a "fix", you could set the wide-screen TV to "16:9 zoom" mode, which would zoom in the 4:3 image and crop off the letterbox bars - but that's costing you resolution.

Also, check the display settings of the DVD player [normally you hit "Menu" without a disc in the player to get to these settings]. It may think it's connected to a 4:3 TV and may be adding the letterboxing on playback.

- Mikko
 
Hi Mikko,

At this point, I'm just experimenting. My original intent was to see exactly what settings in Cinema 4D I would need in order to render animations to be used with squeeze mode footage. I shot the squeeze footage to use as a benchmark, edited in with my 3D footage, to see how they compared. I'll try making adjustments to the DVD player to see what difference I might make.

Thanks for the reply!

Dave
 
They auto-sense the format of the video. But they have no way of telling what shape TV they are connected to, so you need to manually tell it that it's connected to a 16:9 TV.

- Mikko
 
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