4:3 aspect woes. Curse that "widescreen preview"!!

I searched this subject before posting and couldn't find an answer. I created a slideshow -- with NO audio -- using "Photo-to-Movie" in 4:3. I exported it to iDVD using the program's settings, choosing 4:3 when prompted in iDVD. Even chose a really old theme, as all the newer formats want widescreen (yes, I know I can choose 4:3, and I have). Everything goes fine until I preview, then my stretched out photos show up with the dreaded green "widescreen preview". The discs burn this way as well. Read all the threads here which address this problem with FC and FCE, which I have used in the past, but not this time. Doubt it is a corrupt audio segment, as again, there is no audio to this project; it is supposed to play silently at a graduation ceremony in two days. Have resigned myself to going back into PTM and re-doing all the key frames, etc in widescreen format. What a huge waste of time. Everything on my Mac is up to date, except the PTM is an older version. The movie it exported (.mov format) plays fine everywhere else except for when I bring it into iDVD. Why why why won't it preview and burn in standard 4:3 format?

Hi there.
I have encountered the same problem lately, and downloaded the Inverse Amorphicizer, as suggested. It downloaded, but there are no instructions as to how to use it. This discussion thread suggests that it opens in QuickTime. It doesn't do that for me. It has its own menu bar (with nothing but "Amorphicizer" on it. The creator's instructions were to "drop your quicktime move onto the Amorphicizer". I do not understand this. I try to drag the QT movie file onto the icon for the Amorphicizer, but nothing happens. I guess I don't understand how to use this download.

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hello everyone
i already have a project that i made using the templates in idvd 08,my project was shot in 16x9 anamorphic and then i put it on a 4x3 sequence so it will letterbox on normal 4x3 televisions, when i hit the preview button and played my footage it showed my project was squashed, and below was a green caption 'widescreen preview'.
anyone know how to disable this?because i have done lots of projects in this same workflow(16x9 to 4x3 sequence) but showed to be fine when i preview it on idvd (a letterboxed footage in a 4x3 aspect). this is the first time i encountered this and i cant seem to find how to disable the 'widescreen preview'
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i hope someone could help me, thank you very much
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Found a post in another forum from JTR210, it worked for me...
Quoting...
I found a stupid workaround where you download a program called Inverse-Anamorphicizer
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
You drop the 4:3 movie you are using into Inverse-Anamorphicizer and it creates a reference movie that you drag into iDVD. After using this process the DVD burned fine and I tested it on 3 different machines to confirm that everything was at a 4:3 ratio.
The menu, movies and slideshow of the DVD were all coming up widescreen but everything works like it should now. Does anyone know a better method than this or is quicktime and iDVD just screwed up until they update it?
End Quote...
Hope this helps.

Widescreen Preview

I have a 4:3 aspect ratio project from Final Cut Pro 6.5... I've been exporting as a Quicktime movie for years from FCP......So I know how to do it and have done it 100's of times.
Today - I went to burn it to IDVD and the movie "previews" in widescreen even though it is not a widescreen template or movie. It says "Widescreen Preview" in green at bottom right of screen during preview.
In Quicktime - the movie plays as it should 4:3.
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Thanks for your help - it turns out that I opened the .mov in quicktime and resaved it. That seemed to take away the "wide screen" scenario. My guess is the my FCP project had a combo of Wide Screen and Standard Screen video in it. Even though I exported the whole project as a standard screen movie - IDVD picked up on the widescreen stuff. Anyway - that's how I solved the problem.

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