Exporting in Widescreen

I have finished my film and it's in anamorphic widescreen when I've been editing it. There is no letterboxing in the sequence. But when I export the film it is in 4:3 aspect ratio, and when I try to burn it to a DVD on iDVD in the 16:9 ratio, it still is 4:3... What do I need to do to export this in the correct aspect ratio?

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Having trouble exporting a widescreen...

I recently made a short film by capturing video game footage off my PS2.
The footage I captured was Full Screen, but I had the game set to widescreen,
which stretched everything out vertically.
After I had cut the footage together I ticked the anamorphic box in the sequence - settings area. Immediately my Full Screen footage was displayed in the viewer as perfect widescreen. It looked awesome.
I exported it, put it on IDVD...suddenly it's Full Screen again. I've tried multiple tweaks but I can't seem to export my Widescreen version. What simple thing am I not doing to accomplish this?
Can anyone help?
Thanks!

Zoosnake wrote:
Wow, that looks great! The movie actually looks better than the 'full quality' dv, and it's a quarter of the size!
.. you got tricked (punkd?)...
DV is by far superior in quality, it is miniDVs and iMHD6 native internal codec..
but..
read and see the pics, David Babsky's providing in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9781245
h264 is mainly meant for playback - not for editing, as DV is ..
and a playback codec should be smaller..
mpeg2 are smaller too.. but not meant for editing either..

Best Settings For Exporting A Widescreen Project?

I have edited a project which is in widescreen. I want to export the movie with the highest quality but I don't want it to appear squashed, stretched and of poor quality when I play it back in QuickTime, which is all I have achieve so far.

A disk image (.img file) is a file which your computer can treat as if it was a physical disc (CD or DVD). For instance, if you created a disc image file from an iDVD project (File>Save as Disc Image), you could mount that file on your desktop like a physical DVD and open it with the DVD Player application.
What myDVDedit does for you is manipulate that .img file so that it winds up with the aspect ratio you want. You use myDVDedit to adjust the .img file, then use the Disc Utility application to burn the adjusted .img file to DVD, creating a finished DVD with the desired aspect ratio.

Exporting to widescreen issues

Hello.
I have FCE 3.5 and am having a problem exporting wide-screen footage. I have an older Panasonic MiniDV (standard definition) camera that records in widescreen (16:9). However, even when I import in anamorphic, Final Cut still exports with the black bars on the top and bottom of the video. In FCE I have the clip and the sequence set to anamorphic. I would like those black bars on the top and bottom of the exported video gone because they will eventually be on Youtube and youtube will add even more black bars to make the video appear much smaller than it actually is. How can I export without the black bars?
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You have edited into a 4:3 sequence not a 16:9 sequence. Change your preset to DV anamorphic and make a new sequence. Copy and paste the content of the old sequence into the new sequence. Select all the clips in the new sequence and use Remove Attributes to reset the distort function. You may have to redo any motion effects you created.

I'm kinda new to FCP and need help exporting as widescreen

Hi people,
Please help me if you can!
I've been editing a video in FCP, it was shot in 16:9 and I've been editing in 16:9. The movie looks great when I view it in FCP.
However, when I export and select 'DV PAL 48 KHz Animorphic' the finished .MOV isn't widescreen, it's stretched and doesn't look right.
Can anybody suggest any ideas?
THANK YOU

You can use "export using quicktime conversion". Under video, select PAL DV. Then under size select custom and force the size to be 854 x 480. That will make your final .mov file display as 16x9.
or...
if you have quicktime pro you can take the original clip you exported earlier and open it, hit command J, then under the video track you will see controls on how to display your video. Make the ratio equal to 16:9 and hit save.

What is best way to export HD widescreen to accomodate to 4x3 exhibition?

Hi there,
I have a film I would like to submit to festivals but a few of them only exhibition in SD platforms like Betacam. I shot in HD 720p widescreen.
Am I stuck with exporting by cropping the sides of the film to accomodate to 4x3? Or is there a better way? What export in FCP should I make to send to dubbing house?
Thanks!
Steven

Letterbox.
Just drop your sequence in a matching 4:3 sequence, Uncompressed 8 or 10 bit ; choose no to changing the comps settings to match footage - it will letterbox automatically - render, and Print to Tape. I'm assuming since you're going to Betacam that you have a output card, RAID array, and a Betacam deck; or are sending the project to a facility that does.

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Then if I export with the same settings but as an Uncompressed Avi, I get what I want, which is PAL WIDESCREEN PIXEL movie with the size of 720 x 576. And Encore is able to interpret it correctly, AS a PAL Widescreen pixel movie. Any ideas or logic why this is happening?

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i http://adobe.com/go/wish/

'Vector' Distortions when exporting to widescreen in AE CS3

Hi
I'm sure this is probably quite a simple issue, but i am new to AE and cannot find the answer to this anywhere. Basically i am exporting my compositions to use as widescreen for DVD. The exported video footage looks fine but any non-video elements used seem to 'quiver and shake' - examples of this are AE text, imported jpg logos and vector lines created and masked from within AE. I accidentally exported as best settings on one occasion rather than DV - this gave me a 'squarer' video file but it did render the 'distorting elements' perfectly. This is also the case when i export as a flv. file - wrong proportions but quality render of the 'distorting elements'. As an aside, is it possible to export the composition as a widesceen flv file?
The settings i am using are detailed below (at default settings)
Render setting is DV settings and my chosen outpout module is Microsoft DV PAL 48khz, my composition settings are Preset: PAL D1/DV Widescreen (720 x 576) PAR: D1/DV PAL Widesceen (1.42) and the Frame Aspect Ratio is 16:9.
As i said i am new to this so it well be that i am not using the best settings for this task.
Thanks in advance for any help that can be given, Tom

Your vector artwork from Illustrator should be interpreted as Square Pixels. It's highly unusual for Vector artwork to be anything else.
Anything you brought in from Photoshop or other image editing program should also be interpreted as Square Pixels unless you specifically created the artwork in Photoshop as non-square using one of the Photoshop Presets.
The composition you set up for rendering should be created using one of the presets. It looks like you're either using NTSC DV Widescreen or NTSC D1 Widescreen. Maybe you're in PAL land and using PAL D1/DV Widescreen. Make sure that you don't resize anything in the Output module.
In the composition window, if you have Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction turned on your footage will appear as it will when you look at on a TV. Nothing will be distorted, but there will be some ugly aliasing artifacts in the comp window because of the onscreen interpolation of the pixels. These artifacts will not show up in your render. If you don't like looking at the aliasing problems then you can turn off PARC in the Composition Panel and put up with the distorted (squeezed) image.
The way you keep things undistorted is to interpret the PAR of each asset in the Project Panel as it actually is and let AE do the PAR management. AE will usually guess correctly with footage (video). It may miss widescreen tags so you'll have to watch for that.
AE will always guess incorrectly for Illustrator or Photoshop artwork that should be square pixels but is created at a standard non-square image size. IOW, if you create artwork that is 720 X 480 pixels it will always be interpreted as NTSC DV pixels. The only time this is correct is when you intentionally create your artwork using this preset. I personally think that this seldom a good idea and only do this on rare occasions.
I hope this helps.

Exporting to Widescreen

Hey!
I just edited a movie on Final Cut Express which I filmed in 16:9 . I imported my footage in an NTSC anamorphic setting however when i export to quicktime i don't see my film in widescreen...only 4:3
Does anyone know how to export to quicktime and IDVD in my original 16:9 ratio?
Thanks
Ryan

Shooting in 16x9 in DV is exactly like shooting in 4x3, except the pixel aspect ration is different, and cameras/decks flag the footage as "anamorphic." FCP, DVD Studio Pro, iDVD (newest version), etc. read the anamorphic flag and adjust accordingly. Quicktime, however, does not read the anamorphic flag and will play your 16x9 footage stretched to fill a 4x3 frame.
If you're exporting for DVD, this is fine. If you're exporting for QuickTime delivery, you'll need to either A) encode from a 4x3 sequence with a letterbox, or B) force it to render the quicktime with a different pixel dimension to match your 16x9 aspect ratio at the desired size.

Export for widescreen style borders?

hey guys,
i want my exported video to have borders on the top and bottom to give it a widescreen feel to it.
im guessing i would set this up int he export menu?
what would be the best way about doin this?
thanks!

Yes, you'd have to adjust every clip. Otherwise, how would you know if it's chopping things off or not?
However, the way I like to do it, as opposed to using the matte filter on every clip, is this:
1) Make two slugs.
2) Invert one, so it's all white, and put it on top of the other.
3) Put the widescreen matte on the white slug.
4) Take a still frame of the whole thing.
5) Use the luma key to key out all the white.
6) Clear the in/out points of the still.
7) Drag this still to a new top video track, over all the tracks you currently have. If your project is too long, you may have to do this multiple times, so the whole project has these bars overtop.
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Import widescreen quality video exports not widescreen, cropped, low qualty

I ripped a dvd vob files to mp4. Each mp4 is high quality and widescreen. I import them to iMovie and they are still high quality and widescreen (the clips in the bottom). When i add them to the project they are no longer widescreen, the left and right sides are cut off, and quality is much worse. I have tried widescreen 16:9 and 4:3 in the project properties, but they don't help. 4:3 is worse of course.
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Sorry should have been more clear... I am not combining the two different files, so they are not in the same project at the same time. I tried importing them seperately to see if there was a difference. I think one may have been converted to mp4 using Video Monkey and the other HandbrakeCLI. Cant remember which for each video. I have different formats because I have been trying different methods of conversion to find the best ones because I have other .mp4s from home made AVIs from a DV camera which I just cannot get all of them into iMovie, iTunes and iPhoto (reported on another thread!).
But for some reason it is working now as stated. Do you think if changing Project settings I need to re-import the videos? I deleted the copies from the project, then deleted from the Events, then re-imported the same .mp4 files (both of the ones I listed) then re-added to the Project and it was widescreen and high quality as I wanted. So I wonder if I originally had 4:3 then changed to 16:9 but needed to re-import them all??? OR I have made a complete b*lls up and imported the wrong low quality file in the first place, but am sure I could not have done that.
As for the ripping, I used MacTheRipper. The DVD probably is copywrite protected, its just Rambo. Its a purchased DVD so wanted to put it on the Mac in my library to play with AirPlay (am new to all this so experimenting). I dont particularly care if this breaks the license as my belief is I paid for the DVD so I can put it on my computer to watch there rather than the disc everytime. As long as I dont give the copy to anyone else.
Thanks for your advice though, appreciate it and will try it out next time I spend time on this (which has been far too long than is necessary!). As stated cant believe the issues I am having with iMovie for what should be something plain simple. Not just this issue but the other issue I reported in another thread is actually driving me far more nuts than this one!
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How to make iPhoto export slideshow widescreen 16:9, 1280x720?

I have posted this also in Using iPhoto 5... sorry for the dup. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=319329
I have posted this also in Using iPhoto 5... sorry for the dup.
I have seen previous posts (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1281810&#1281810) also requesting instructions or work arounds on iPhoto's only options for exporting slideshows:
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Exporting dv-widescreen (16:9) PAL

I've a big problem about PAL 16:9.
iMovie correctly imports from my camera (Panasonic G250).
Setting 16:9 ratio, all goes right on timeline and iMovie preview.
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Opening iMovie mask-folder, I've tried to save the clip trough QT7, but the problem persists.
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Hi.
ThankU for replies. Actually I have iMovie 3.0.2 and QT 7.0.
I choose 16:9 in Share > QuickTime > Expert Settings - Movie to DV Stream – Options, of course, but don’t works. However, I prefer to use export > QT > hi quality, so I can use those .dv in future editing with transitions.
I also think that is a QT problem.
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Some other suggestion?
Happy New Year to U all.
Mau

Exporting Widescreen - It shouldn't be this difficult!

Hello all,
I really hope someone can help me here, I'm a long-term user of Premiere Pro yet I recently upgraded to CS4 with the new media encoder, and simple operations now seem impossible, in this scenerio - exporting a widescreen video...in widescreen!
I have a video, about 1 minute long. Shot in widescreen. Edited in a Premiere widescreen project and for the export settings: Mov and/or Mpeg and/or WMV, and the DV PAL Widescreen Preset - which then gives me the (unchangeable) frame size of 720x 576. I choose Square Pixels for the ratio selection and export. I get a widescreen video plus letterboxing to give me a 4:3 screen. Seeing as i can't change the frame size, I changed the pixels to Widescreen, and it gives me a 4:3 video without letterboxing, thereby distorting it horribley. I have tried changing everything! Different codecs give me the correct size but a file hundreds and hundreds of MB big. Seriously, it shouldn't be this hard!!
Please someone, talk some sense!
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The other formats won't let me change the frame size from 720x576.
If you're attempting to go from a DV source (judging by the screenshot you posted, you are) to a DV output (which you are if you're going to MS DV AVI or to QuickTime DV MOV), you have no other option than to encode at 720x576, period. That's what DV is (in PALLand, anyway; in NTSCVille, it's 720x480). It doesn't matter if you're coming from or going to a standard 4:3 aspect ratio or a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, as long as you're using a DV codec your files will alwaysalwaysalways be 720x576. The differentiation between the display aspect ratio or DAR (4:3 or 16:9), therefore, comes from the pixel aspect ratio, or PAR--in other words, what shape are the pixels? For standard DV sources, the pixels' width-to-height ratio is smaller; for widescreen DV sources, the pixels' width-to-height ratio is larger. Note that these are relative, and not absolute, as I'm speaking in generalities about DV--NTSC DV and PAL DV PARs differ. As Jim pointed out, some programs are able to properly read the PAR written into a DV (or other video) file, while some simply read the raw pixel count, which in your case is 720x576. That's why it looks weird and not what you want when played back--the footage is all there, but not drawn as you'd like.
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Quicktime Widescreen Export....

Can someone explain to me why when I export a widescreen Quicktime file, and play it back using Quicktime, it always opens up in a 4x3 window that isn't stretched for 16x9? And the image looks squeezed.
Am I missing something? I can get a Quicktime file that will create a 4x3 image with a letterboxed image of my video, but I can't make one that is full framed 16x9.

>Problem solved.
Closing ones eyes to Mac/QT does not solve anything and recommending not using it is simplistic and un workable for many thousands of film makers.
Working cross platform with the "big boys" in top facilities involves a little more flexibility and effort than found with a simple DV tape based workflow.
New workflows for delivery of high end content for broadcast and serious fx processing are file based and working with creatives (usually Mac based) also challenges us in this regard.
I also have clients that request QTs so they need to be acommodated as well and if they want a QT...thats what they get and pay for.
Where's the problem? (It works fine for me and all of my colleagues)
*Admit I am one of the few in a Windows environment and the only one using Premiere but thats the point. I need QT to be able work with them. Not the other way around.

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