DV 16:9 Letterbox

Hello !
I have searched everything but no luck.
Can enyone please write step by step how do I export 16:9 movie with letterbox ??
Thanks

export your anamorphic sequence as QT Movie w/Current Settings then open in Quicktime Player and press Cmd J to open the Movie properties window, then under the presentation tab change the Conform Aperture setting to Production
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Can anyone tell me the settings I need to convert 16X9 to 4:3 letterbox for DVD. I am mixing other 4:3 letterbox content. Evertime I make an mpeg with Quicktime conversion it is squeezed. I want it to be letterbox in 4:3
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I'm authoring a feature film DVD. All menus and movies are 16:9
When I play the Simulator in "16:9" everything is fine.
When I play the Simulator in "4:3 Letterbox" my menus are letterboxed as desired, however every movie is for some reason squished into 4:3.
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All tracks show in the Track Inspector as display mode 16:9 Letterbox.
All Menus show in the Menu Inspector as Aspect Ratio 16:9
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Workflow sd letterbox to 16:9 hd through iohd?

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The original film was shot on a dvx100 in 4:3 and letterboxed. The file that I edited, and later could see output through my iohd to hd image on my flat screen as one of my monitors...I now plan to capture on the ninja as a pro res 422 hq file that I'll then throw back on fcp for preparation for hd files, one of which I'll output to an hvr-m15au as hdv1080i or 720p!
I have prepared various files and realized the ninja recognized the files uncompressed at 8 and 10 bit and not in rgb (?) when output from the iohd through hdmi...so I have ready uncompressed letterbox and uncompressed anamorphic set-up for digibeta or just 720x480 rather than 720x486...but I've decided on choosing the file I had ready for digibeta which seems to match the specs closer for hd.
The aja output is in 1080i 29.97 (for some reason the ninja only recognizes the signal as 59.97) and/or 720p 59.97.
But HERE'S MY QUESTION!
I get, of course a full screen capture of my anamorphic file that can then be recognized on the digital tv as 16:9 if I choose a "full" setting...is this the best solution considering the original source if I want to have at the end a full 16:9 picture onscreen...or is there a way to do all this and have a true 16:9 and at what point in the workflow would I do this "cropping" and if I do that am I back to square one with deterioration of image?????? I do have broadcast opportunities down the road with a distributor who is still pitching my film in its sd format and as well...I'd like to also fiddle around with blu-ray authoring on my own once I capture these files.
I'm also a little perplexed as to why I'm not seeing the stretched files on the ninja monitor out of the iohd when I choose the stretch options in the iohd which would solve the problem but that's not what's happening.
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Anyway, am I doing this right? It appears now I've succeeded in making a full 16:9 file as a pro res 422 hq 1080i file from a 720x486 uncompressed 10 bit anamorphic fcp file that was created from what started as a letterbox 4:3 ntsc dvcam rgb file that was dropped into an anamorphic timeline.
I'll report how it looks once it's back in fcp on my large screen tv and after I output it to the hdv recorder.

16:9 letterboxed project questions

This is my first 16:9 project and it's a little confusing...
My source footage is cropped to 16:9 aspect ratio from 4:3 but it's not anamorphic, it's only letterboxed. The frame size came out to be 720X404 when cropped and compressed with Compressor. Is that right? can I use this .m2v file in DSP or I HAVE to use anamorphic for widescreen SD DVD. My source footage is in a single field MJPEG A format rendered out from Final Fut Pro with a 4:3 aspect ratio letterboxed to 16:9.
I made a test burn, just dropping it on the first play and setting the track to 16:9 letterbox, I set everything to 16:9. It played the right way on 2 different computers, letterboxing it on 4:3 monitors and playing full screen on the 16:9 monitor, but it didn't play back the right way on a portable Panasonic player with a 16:9 screen. It letterboxed it and even with the wide screen setting on the machine kept the letterbox, so it got squeezed.
What I would like is to play back letterboxed on 4:3 systems including the menu, and to play full screen on 16:9 systems automatically. I don't want to make different versions of the menu for the different aspect ratios.
How would I do this? Do I make my menus in 853X480 and import it to DSP. I'm making the menus in After Effects and Photoshop.
please help.
David

Yes it is the continuation of the same project, but that post was already check as resolved, so I opened a new post.
Yes there is a reason with working Motion JPEG, the film was deinterlaced with a special plugin and processed with other effects also, as a matter of fact the whole timeline is for some reason in Motion JPEG.
What they are giving me is a 720X480 4:3 aspect ratio master in Motion JPEG A format, single field and letterboxed. They had to letterbox it to adjust the different shots to it. The source material for this project was a mess, all different cameras, some letterboxed, some not, some progressive some not... It's a real challenge to make them look somewhat similar. That is why was processed with many plugins. The whole thing is rendered out to one big file.
I took this material to Compressor and tried to make a .m2v file, cropped out the letterbox, set the size to 720X480 anamorphic but for some reason it didn't stretch it for me but made a file with a 720X404 size.
I'm using FCS 2, DVDSP 4.2.0, Compressor 3.0
I really appreciate your help
David

Aspect ratio on widescreen tv - letterboxed

This has been brought up before, and there always seems to be the same answer…'its a setting on the tv/dvd to correct to play 16:9'…I have an SD widescreen anamorphic video that displays on tv as letterboxed and stretched, but yet the main menu of the dvd from DVDSP4 displays perfectly. There is no setting adjustment for display on the DVD. The display setting on the tv is set to 16:9. I'm baffled here. How can the main menu display right but the vid asset is stretched and letterboxed? I worked in FCP6 and exported to QT movie….from there I dumped it into DVDSP4 and created what I thought was a standard 16:9 dvd. Thoughts,…ideas…suggestions?

You also have to mind the display setting on the DVD player appliance.
At home I have an Insignia (Best Buy) DVD player and a Playstation 2. Both of these appliances were originally hooked up to 4:3 TVs, and now they're hooked up to 16:9 TVs. Just to make matters more fun, the Playstation 2 has a setting that applies to games and a setting that applies to DVDs. On the Insignia player, using the SETUP button on the DVD player's remote control, I set the display to 16:9. If I watch a 4:3 DVD on it (such as an old Bresson movie) I just change the TV's display setting (the TV's Dynex, also from Best Buy) and I haven't touched the DVD player's settings in years. Some Hollywood DVDs from 2009 and earlier have the previews at 4:3 and the main movie at 16:9, a mild nuisance.
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Thanks

Sounds like your sequence is set to Anamorphic.
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Sorry if this has been discussed before.
Very new to macs (former PC user)
I have a MacMini with 10.4.xx (cant remember the next #) with 2g ram and intel processor.
Making a slideshow in IMovie and buring in IDVD.
I have made two different slideshows and each has (what I think is) letterboxing issues.
The 16:9 formatted show did not letter box on a standard 4:3 tv (confirmed settings on dvd players and multiple tvs).
I just did a 4:3 slideshow and it appears normal on the computer, but the final product seems to 'zoom' in slightly and cuts off the top 5% of the images (which, unfortunately cuts some faces off...).
In IDVD, i have the 4:3 setting checked.
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Thanks Robert...
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I use a Canon HG20 and want to fit YouTube's widescreen with no letterbox but I can't seem to export in HD without a letterbox. A tutorial video said to use these settings
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Deinterlace source video
This is what I use, but there's a letterbox and there isn't supposed to be. It messes up the dimensions very much. How can I export with no letterbox?

AHA! That would be your problem. The actual clip is 1440x1080, but you were using a 720x480 DV-NTSC sequence. When HD media is placed in a SD sequence, it is scaled down and letterboxes are added.
Here's what you have to do:
1. Select the sequence in the browser.
2. Go to +Sequence > Settings > Load Sequence Preset > Apple Intermediate Codec 1440x1080i60+. Select it and click OK.
3. Now you drag your 1440x1080 footage to the sequence and edit, etc.
4. Export using the 1280x720 settings described above.
Unless I am very much mistaken, this should fix your problem.
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