Creating anamorphic widescreen dvds

Does iDVD (in combination with iMovie) now produce anamorphic widescreen DVDs from a 16:9 camcorder source?
I'm currently using iLife '05, and the DVDs it produces are not anamorphic widescreen, which means when I play them back on DVD Player, they have a 2" border on all sides of the screen.

Andrew,
You are talking about two different issues with iLife 05 - Importing anamorphic video into iMovie HD (in iLife 05) and then burning anamorphic 16:9 DVDs with iDVD.
Many 16:9 cameras work great with iMovieHD. I even created anamorphic 16:9 DV files with both iPhoto and PhotoToMovie that also worked great with iMovieHD (05). However, some cameras do have the pillarboxing issues you pointed out and Matti referenced. I do not know whether or not this was fixed for your camcorder for iLife06.
The second issue iLife05 has is how it creates 16:9 anamorphic video in iDVD5. Actaully this does work correctly! It's only the conversion of the anamorphic 16:9 to letterboxed 4:3 for 4:3 TV's that is an issue. If you take a "good" 16:9 anamorphic movie in iMovie and transfer it to iDVD5, it does encode as anamorphic - it just doesn't set the flag right for display on 4:3 TVs.....they are full screen 16:9 anamorphic DV for 16:9 displays, and play correctly on my 16:9 plasma TV at the normal WS setting with no distortion, just like commercial WS DVDs. If this were not an anamorphic signal, I would have to use the "zoom" setting, which is how I view letterboxed cable shows. If you read David Althoff's site carefully, you will note that iDVD5 can use 16:9 encoding, but the playback flag is not forced to letterbox it for 4:3 displays.
Now I'm not saying that you haven't had the issue of getting 4:3 encoding....and your 2 inch border does suggest that! I think your main problem is the import of the movie into iMovie in the first place is creating 4:3 video, and once you've got that, iDVD isn't going to fix it.
You need to make sure that your start a 16:9 WS DV project, and then import your video with the preferences "unchecked" as Matti suggests.
And what kind of camera do you have???
John B.

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Hi! Please can you help me with some widescreen problems?
I recently filmed a stage play with two cameras - one recording in 16:9 "True Widescreen" and the other (an older camera) filming in a "false" widescreen: letterboxed 4:3.
On top of this the camera I'm using that has a firewire connection to the Apple is the older camera that plays back the "True Widescreen" tape squeezed.
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You need to do it the other way - you need to stretch the letterboxed footage's height to the True Widescreen's dimension, which btw is refered to as Anamorphic. Then you need to tell the system that it is anamorphic footage (there's a checkbox for this in the properties window).
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What is the presets for creating NTSC_ Widescreen DVDs?

I have footage that is 1920x1080/60p and 1920x1080/60i that I will combine into one project to edit. First off, what project setting should I be using? I will be creating Blu-ray and DVDs. The Blu-ray quality looks great. BUT the DVD quality is not good at all. I understand I will be getting loss of quality creating DVDs, but not that much. When creating DVDs what is the preset for NTSC_ Widescreen_Dolby DVD? When saving a file to computer - NTSC_ Widescreen, it has an advanced option where you can change the settings to get better quality. I am using Elements 12. Will this advanced feature be added to creating DVDs in the next version?

Erma
Thanks for the reply.
12.1 Update was released by Adobe for Premiere Elements 12 around March 2014. It's obvious fix is related to the text styles issue specific to the Expert workspace. There are supposed be other perks.
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2014/03/pe12-update-121-released.html
This update is free and is accessed only from within the opened project, using Help Menu/Update.
If history repeats itself, Adobe should be releasing a new version of Premiere Elements at the end of September 2014. No one but Adobe knows the feature set, and that type of information is released by it only at the moment of release of the new version. In the past, after the new version release, Adobe has announced its policy with regard to going to the new version from a recent purchase of the version that the new version replaces.
For a mixed timeline, I want to edit only one time and save to Blu-ray and
DVD. Which project preset Full HD1080i30 or AVCHD 1080p60 would be best?
DVD-VIDEO and the Field Order of interlaced frame rates are the concern. Do a mini test run to determine which works for you. DVD-VIDEO uses Field Order = Lower Field First. Your 1080i30 does not. It uses Upper Field First. And, there is my moment of pause. Contrast.... If the destination is Blu-ray, your interlaced source is going from and to an Upper Field First.
The project preset should be set to match the properties of the source media. There again the matter of priorities.
But, when it comes to export and you have a choice of 1440 x 1080 HD Anamorphic 16:9 vs 1920 x 1080 16:9, go with the 1920 x 1080 16:9 which will not depend on a 16:9 flag to stretch the video to 1920 x 1080 16:9. Some players have problems with the 16:9 flag to stretch the 1440 x 1080 4:3 to 1920 x 1080 16:9.
Not sure what you mean by
Do you know what is the preset for NTSC_ Widescreen_Dolby DVD?
When you burn your Timeline to DVD-VIDEO widescreen on a DVD disc, NTSC_Widescreen_Dolby DVD is the preset that you select in the burn dialog.
That will give you your Timeline in NTSC DVD-VIDEO format on DVD disc (720 x 480 16:9 @ 29.97 interlaced frames per second). In this case, the 16:9 flag stretches the video to about 856 x 480 for display after encoding. You cannot customize that preset.
Not sure where you are going on this
NTSC_Widescreen for saving to computer has advanced options, where you can
change quality 3 up to 5? Interlaced or progressive?. CBR? lower/higher
VBR, 1 pass or 2 pass?
No matter what file you send through the Premiere Elements Publish+Share burn to with the NTSC_Widescreen_Dolby DVD setting, you are always going to get the same results (export properties) of the present
720 x 480 16:9 @ 29.97 interlaced frames per second). In this case, the 16:9 flag stretches the video to about 856 x 480 for display after encoding.
If you want to export your Timeline content to a file saved to the computer hard drive, you can use the Publish+Share/Computer/ Advanced settings. But, then you need to decide on your playback opportunities related to the specifications of the player.
Please review and then we can work through the details.
Thanks.
ATR

Widescreen DVD's

Guys
Hope you can help
I've created a widescreen DVD project to help with a local charity and have had people report back that the sides/top/bottom are being chopped off. I've read somewhere this is due to the DVD not being intelligent enough to know which to use widescreen/ordinary and wondered how I go about fixing this?
Thanks!
Daz

Try putting the widescreen movie file inside an iDVD slideshow, the kind created by the "+" button at the bottom. That will let you scale the movie to the TV safe area like you can with stills.
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This is what you get:
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OT

Creating a PAL Widescreen DVD from NTSC footage.

First off, my iDVD is version 7.0.4
If someone could help me out with a very precise workflow it would be great, because I have a project with a one day turn around and the DVDs have to play properly the next day.
This is the (sparse) information I got from the company that needs the DVDs : "As long as the DVD is UK pal widescreen it will play on the monitors."
In the past, if shooting in NTSC and transferring to PAL, I've had the DVDs professionally transferred. With this project, I won't have time to do that.
I'm planning on shooting on a DVX100 and editing in FCP. If shooting in NTSC is going to cause problems, I can definitely rent a PAL camera instead. (And would prefer to do that than have to do too much in post to get to a PAL Widescreen DVD)
Can you let me know what sequence settings I should use (for both the NTSC possibility and the PAL possibility) in FCP, and then exactly how to set up the DVD in iDVD? I know this is a super basic question- thanks in advance for your help.
Please note: I need the most reliable, quick workflow- would rather spend some money on renting a PAL camera if that's a more reliable method than transferring footage.

Thanks for the response! I just learned about an additional problem, unfortunately...
The client has OTHER footage that was already shot in NTSC that they need edited into the project. So I pretty much have to shoot in NTSC. However, there is the additional option of uploading the final clip to a server instead of burnind DVDs... any advice? Can I use MPEG Streamclip to create Pal files (let's say quality doesn't have to matter as much...)

Downconverting a FCP edited project in HDV to create a SD dvd

Hello,
I've just finished a Project that was shot on Z1 and was editied in HD1080i on FCP. I want to create a SD dvd on DVDSP 4.0.3. My workflow that i have tried is exporting a QT using the export command and the default settings of HDV1080i and that gives me a QT which is by 1920 X 1080. i then brought that into compressor 2 and used the apples setting of high qualtiy 90min 16:9 preset. I altered the .m2v preset so that the filed dominance was upper layer, i changed the "frame control" to be custom (in "resizing control" i selected "best" on "resize filter" i changed it to "top first" and finally i changed the "deinterlace" to "best".
i then imported the encoded project into a SD DVDSP project and burnt it. Is this the best way to get the highest quality of final DVD or am i just doing it in an unnecessarelly complicated way?
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Fred

You say SD DVD, but do you mean anamorphic 16:9 on regular DVD-Video? There are way too many lines in 1080i for normal NTSC, and as you're deinterlacing anyway I think the field dominance issues don't apply.
Here's a quick test I did with some 1080i video, I just deinterlaced it and scaled it straight to 720x480. It's H264, so DV would look better, but it may give you an idea. I guess the result is 29.97P, if there is such a thing! After creating the 720x480 movie I then sized it to 854x480, which is the right size for SD 16:9. Here you go:
http://staff.funnygarbage.com/colin/scaled.mov
One thing I've been curious to try is to take every third pixel from 1920x1080i, in both directions and laying it into a 640x480 frame. That should give a perfect 60i 640x480 video, with the picture information in the 640x360, 16:9 middle part (and which Compressor would happily compress to MPEG-2). I know that people argue to have anamorphic so that more quality is in the picture when it's stretched to fill a widescreen TV, but as you'll notice in my short clip some vertical edges gain artifacts from being squished horizontally.

Getting a widescreen DVD from my footage - ARG!

Okay, I am trying to take 720p video and create a standard definition widescreen dvd.
In FCP2, I have the setup as DVCPRO HD - 720p30 , and I can edit and see the sequence in widescreen without any problems in the Canvas.
PROBLEM: When I try to export through Compressor and use any Apple preset for creating a DVD, the image looks "squished" and made to fit inside a 720x480 frame, thus looking rather ridiculous.
What am I doing wrong?? Help!

If you don't want it to be anamorphic, you need to specify the width and height of the output (in pixels). Otherwise, for some reason I'm not familiar with, Compressor likes to anamorphic-ize 16x9 footage. In fact, I usually give up with DVDSP and end up using iDVD to create the DVDs since it seems to be more forgiving with the video size, whereas DVDSP seems to like to check the Anamorphic box.

NTSC & PAL Widescreen DVD from Flash Animation

Hey Everyone. I have a question regarding a project I am finishing up. I created an animation in flash that is being exported to both NTSC Widescreen DVD and PAL Widescreen DVD.
I started with 1024x576 in flash and created a sweet animation with audio. (Its a 1 min animation that will be looped for conventions etc)
For NTSC
From Flash I exported a 853x480 animation and imported it into FCP to add some fades to the beginning and end and make a few tweaks. I exported out another 853x480 video and imported it into DVDSP set to NTSC Widescreen. I burned the disc and everything looks great on my screen (letterbox on my crappy home tv)
For my PAL version I followed a similar process.
From Flash I exported a 1024x576 animation and imported it into FCP to add some fades to the beginning and end and make a few tweaks. I exported out another 1024x576 video and imported it into DVDSP set to PAL Widescreen.
The thing I noticed is that the video in the viewer seems stretched where as the NTSC looked perfect.
Am I missing something here? Where did I go wrong. Should i have set the video size smaller in FCP and outputted the proper video size (NTSC 720 x 480 and PAL 720 x 576) to bring into DVDSP? I don't know why one would look ok and the other would look stretched.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Fish

Fish:
Try this in FCP:
PAL VIDEO
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- Create a new sequence and open it
- Go to menu Sequence > Settings...
- Change Quicktime Video Settings Compressor from DV-PAL to uncompressed 8 bit
- Check the anamorphic option
- Import your movie and make it fit the canvas (check the Distort option in the Motion tab)
- Do your edit
- Export your timeline as Animation.
Same for the NTSC but using DV NTSC Easy Setup and so . . .
If I don't missed something your movies must be fine in DVDSP.
Hope it helps!
Alberto

A How To: Create a Widescreen High Definition Slide Show from the Organizer

[EDIT] I just tried another one and, weirdly, that produced an output with black bars around all four sides! So maybe this 'how to' is not 100%. I have considered deleting the post altogether but, as it does still produce a superior slideshow quality file than the standard ones provided with Elements, I've decided to leave it with this edit added at the top for additional info.[END_EDIT]
In answering a question in another forum I found a nice quick way to create proper widescreen high definition slide shows from just the Elements Organizer. Apologies if this is 'old news' to readers, but I've not seen this described elsewhere so I thought I'd share it.
The Organizer Slide Show creator, if not wanting to edit in PRE, provides a small set of Windows Media Player profiles to create .wmv files. But the best of these goes only to 1024x768 (a 4:3 monitor resolution setting). I've noticed, but never paid much attention to, that at the bottom of the Slide Size box there is a 'Browse for more' option that lets you search for additional Windows Media Encoder profiles. Investigation showed me that I can download the Windows Media Encoder software from Microsoft and create my own profiles. But even further investigation showed me that someone had already done this! I've tested their full HD profile and it works just fine (1920x1080).
So if you are just after a straightforward slide show (i.e. not needing PRE features) but want it displayed on your Full HD TV set here is what you do:
Download the HD Profiles from http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/236895-hd-profiles-for-windows-movie-maker/. There's also a couple of useful SD sizes there as well. Save them somewhere you can easily find them.
Create your slide show in the Organizer. Obviously use appropriately sized images for HD. There's little point outputting an HD wmv file using low resolution and/or 4:3 aspect ratio images.
Save and Output your slide show.
In the output dialog ('Save As a File') scroll down to the bottom of Slide Size and select 'Browse for more ...'.
Browse to the file you downloaded in step 1 and click Open.
Click OK and your Widescreen HD .wmv file is prepared.
Here's a Gspot analysis of my test output file. As you can see it is an HD file with a 16:9, square pixel, aspect ratio.
Ta Da!
Cheers,
Neale
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children
If this post or another user's post resolves the original issue, please mark the posts as correct and/or helpful accordingly. This helps other users with similar trouble get answers to their questions quicker. Thanks.

nealeh
You did not mention a specific Premiere Elements Elements Organizer combo for this, so for now I will address this from the version 11, not Windows Movie Maker, perspective if I need to get version specific.
.prx
The Browse for More is a well known route and does offer at least one Adobe profile for 1280 x 720 16:9. I am not sure where you came up with the lesser resolution,1024 x 768 that you mentioned. The Windows Media profiles have existed for several versions of Elements Organizer. Those Adobe ones that you do not see under Output Save As A File Movie (.wmv), can be found in the Windows 7 or 8 64 bit path
Local Disc C
Profile Files (x86)
Adobe
Elements 11 Organizer
Assets
Locale
en_US
tv_profiles
in the tv_profiles Folder are included the .prx files
.....10. 640 x 480 Enhanced Definitions
.....12. 852 x 480 Widescreen Enhanced Definition
.....14 1280 x 720 Widescreen High Definition
A homemade 1920 x 1080 16:9 30 frames per second .prx has long been sought but not that easily produced by many using with the Windows Media Encoder Editor. Apparently you have found one online, and it does get accepted into the Premiere Elements 11 Browse for More choices. And, if you do a gspot readout for the wmv output from Elements Organizer 11, it will display all the "right" properties that you hoped for and that are shown in your screenshot.
The bottom line, why bother with the wmv slideshow? If you take your original photos and size them for 1920 x 1080 16:9, use them in the Elements Organizer 11 Slideshow Editor (Crops used in preferences), use the Edit with Premiere Elements Editor command, what you get in Premiere Elements 11 is full and good in all regard. Have you tried it?
I can see your interest if this is HD going to HD (AVCHD on DVD or Blu-ray disc format on Blu-ray disc, but I do not see this for an Elements Organizer Slideshow that is going to DVD-VIDEO widescreen.
More later.
ATR

HDV Widescreeen FCP to PAL SD Widescreen DVD?

We have a film that is finished in HDV 1080i50 on FCP at 1440 X 1080 (16:9). We now want to create a PAL SD DVD that gives us pure 16:9 rather than 4:3 letter boxed. What are the exact sizings for this and where should i be resizing?
I have found another post on discussions that reccomends using the method I employed below but I am unsure that this produces a perfect 16:9 video.....
I've been exporting a QT using the export command and the default settings of HDV1080i and that gives me a QT which is by 1920 X 1080. I then brought that into compressor 2 and used the apple setting of high quality 90min 16:9 preset. I altered the .m2v preset so that the filed dominance was upper layer, I changed the "frame control" to be custom (in "resizing control" I selected "best" on "resize filter" I changed it to "top first" and finally I changed the "deinterlace" to "best".
I then imported the encoded project into a SD DVDSP project and burnt it.
When watching this it seems ok but this method seems a little convuloted to create a widescreen movie. I am not sure if this produces a perfect 16:9 SD movie. What is the correct workflow?
Many thanks for anyone who can help me.....
Fred

I perhaps should mention that I haven't done this myself, and that I'm just trying to think through how it should be done, for what it's worth!
You're taking 1080 lines and making them be 576. If you just scaled from one to the other you who end up with a blur of the two fields mixed together. If there's much horizontal movement that might not be a good thing. Deinterlacing Best will probably do its best to mix the lines where there seems to be no motion, and ignoring the one field if there is a lot of motion. At least that's how I think it ought to work.
As there's going to be motion a lot of the time I would argue that just dropping one of the fields would be as good as any other way. Pick either field in the deinterlace options.
I just played around with the 16:9 settings in FCP, and it seemed to have a mind of its own! I wrestled with it and convinced the video clip to fill the document area. I'm sure there is a better way to make that work.
Anyway, having done that (set deinterlace, first field in my case, and squished to fill the document window), I then just did an export using Compressor, and in Compressor used one of the 16:9 encoders. The resulting m2v plays perfectly well in DVD Studio Pro, and I can switch the display resolutions in Simulator to anything I like, and it seems to do the right thing. The Track even had set itself to be 16:9 Letterbox.
With Simulator set to 16:9 display mode I get a wide screen, with the video reaching from top to bottom. If I set a 4:3 display mode I still see the whole video, but with the usual letterbox bars above and below the 16:9 area.

Creating a custom DVD template for Premiere Elements 7

I have Premiere Elements 7, as well as Photoshop CS3. What I want is a very simple DVD title page that shows all 18 scenes in our movie - text listings would be enough - the point of the exercise is to make it easy for someone to click on a specific scene (I could use movie markers instead of scene markers, I guess, if that makes life easier) while giving a talk.
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ari

Ari,
Welcome to the forum.
One thing that tends to get in the way, when creating Menus for PrE is that PrE's authoring module (creates navigation, Burns DVD, etc.) is that it does things semi-automatically. To accomplish this, one needs to think of Menu Sets (a Main Menu and a Scene Selection Menu, that will be replicated enough times to fit the Project). If you look in the folder structure of the Library, you will see that there are two Menus, and their accompanying PNG's (thumbnail display for Create Menu organizer) for each title. That is done to accommodate the semi-automatic aspect.
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Creating various quick time exports (of different sizes)and then importing them into iDVD. None of this has worked. Is it even possible to shoot in HD & then create an SD DVD? I hope so or my wife is going to kill me for insisting on that HD camcorder!
Its only a short film (approx 20 mins) & there is loads of space on both the external hard-drive I am working from & the internal hard-drive.
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Welcome to the forums.
Apple says that iMovie can work with high definition video, but that the video is converted in iDVD:
"High Definition and Widescreen Video
iDVD 5 now imports high definition video (HDV) and 16:9 widescreen formats from iMovie HD. iDVD 5 converts these formats to a standard definition DVD format that allows you to create the coolest-looking DVDs, while retaining the highest quality video."
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Lots of memory helps; and you'll need 10-15 gigs of free space on your main hard drive for scratch space.
Buy good quality disks - I've seen recommendations for Maxell, Sony, Verbatim, TDK and a few others based on testing. I primarily use the first two and usually don't have trouble.
Give yourself lots of time.
Turn off your screen savers and energy savers; don't let your hard drive go to sleep.
Get your computer healthy and ready for some heavy lifting. (video work could be the hardest job your computer can do) MacJanitor followed by Apple's DiskUtility's Repair Permissions is my routine.
Most of the time iDVD is working, it is encoding (compressing) your video to fit on the DVD. Create an image file (Save As Disk Image) and use Toast or Disk Utility to burn it to disk. Burn slow (1 or 2x).
I import into iDVD rather than export from iMovie (fewer errors).
No other apps open.
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After I edit in FCEHD and export to quicktime and then put that quicktime in IDVD it doesn't put it back in anamorphic widescreen... is there anyway to fix this?

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Batch Monitor opens and shows progress. Double-click the file created in your destination location. Mine will show 720x405.
Simple, eh? I did that without consulting a manual.
I hope it works for others!!!

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