IDVD changing 16:9 PAL to 4:3 when burning
Hi there
I have some 16:9 footage which I export from iMovie 08 as a Quicktime Movie using Apple Intermediate Codec as PAL 720 x 576.
I bring that footage into a 16:9 iDVD PAL project.
But when I save the project as a VIDEO_TS folder and open it in DVDPlayer, the main menu screen is 16:9 but the actual movie is pillar-boxed and not in 16:9.
If I import the iMovie footage into iDVD via the Media Browser, all is fine.
Any clues on this would be appreciated - why is iDVD treating the PAL 16:9 AIC differently?
Just a guess but I suspect iDvd's media browser helps prep most added media files so that they are more palatable to iDvd.
Apple's DVD Player app on the other hand is a different app altogether. It's apple's playback software. Normally, it's very dependable but it may or may not see certain embedded flags for 16:9 as opposed to 4:3.
If this is the case then, an alternate test for this media is apple's QT Player/better yet ... QT Pro. If the flags aren't seen here then there's a problem....
Suggest you take a look at JES Deinterlacer which can convert NTSC<->PAL with much better quality than converting with iDVD, iMovie or QuickTime Player Pro.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13069
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