To squeeze or not to..

[Lake Films]

Hey guys. Ok, I'm about to start production on a short & I'm really interested in shooting it in 'squeeze' mode. Here's the question, once & for all, lol. As I understand it (Which isn't much) is, if I shoot in squeeze, on a true wide screen television, it fills the screen sans black bars? But, if the television isn't a true wide screen, the black bars are automatically added by the dvd player? At any time will my picture look distorted and if so, why? Thanks...

 

[bigbossbmb]

If you author the DVD correctly (so that it is flagged as 16x9), then it will look correct on all TVs when played on a DVD player.

 

[Lake Films]

So, when I send the file out to Compressor, I would set it to 16x9 in Compressor?

 

[Joshua Provost]

You got it, if you go: SQUEEZE -> 16:9 timeline -> 16:9 DVD... you will never have any issues. Only time you would have a problem is if you played back from the DVX hooked up directly to a 4:3 TV... but who does that?