DV 16:9 vs FCP vs QT vs iMovie vs iDVD vs "Anamorphicizer"

Hi DV gurus
I know there's a lot of stuff on 16:9 DV available, but I would like to know what is it with QT and 16:9 DV... bare with me...
If I export a DV 16:9 project from FCP to a QT movie with current settings, the resulting QT movie does not display as 16:9 in a 16:9 iDVD project, nor does it display as 16:9 in QT. If I open the file in QT and then 'Export' as DV stream, the resulting file DOES display as 16:9 in QT (why not before!?).
To get the FCP-exported movie to display in iDVD as 16:9 the little application "Anamorphicizer" does the trick, however the reuslting file out of "Anamorphicizer" does not display as 16:9 in QT. What is going on - it's doing my head in...
Cheers
Perry

Perry Collier wrote:
What is going on - it's doing my head in...
Cheers
Perry
What is going on is that 16:9 and 4:3 SD are both 720x480 pixels (or 720x576 for PAL) but the pixels are displayed differently when using anamorphic 16:9 material.
This is as a result of widescreen 16:9 tv having to fit into the existing infrastructure of SD tv recording/post-production/broadcasting equipment, and so to make the best use of the available pixels it was decided to use an anamorphic system which is corrected either on broadcast or on reception. You can see the effect of this if you connect a regular 4:3 tv to a dvd player or satellite/cable box and set the dvd/box for connection to a 16:9 monitor. When watching 16:9 tv or a movie on dvd (very few movies on dvd are 4:3) you'll see that the dvd/box won't correct (or morph) the recorded image and will display a 4:3 image instead of a letterboxed one.
Apps like QT and WMV display in square pixels anyway, not SD tv rectangular pixels, but with 4:3 images we don't really notice the difference.
As advised, using the conform aperture setting in QT player will allow you to choose to view the anamorphic material correctly. IT also allows you to view with overscan, which is handy for 4:3 material also.

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