IDVD not changing aspect ratio to 4:3

Hi -
I'm fairly new -- last week, I edited a 50 min video in Final Cut Express, exported it as a quick time movie, imported into iDVD, chose one of the new 16:9 themes, got the message re: whether I want to keep my 4:3 project as a 4:3 project, clicked keep, and got a good finished product.
This week, same client -- another 50 minute video, same procedure as last week, but when I burned the DVD, I got a "widescreen" rendition. Did the selection option under "project" -- but no change. Viewed the video in quicktime and it looked fine. Looked at the preview in iDVD but it was widescreen, and showed the green "widescreen" banner in the lower right hand corner. I tried other themes, including the older 4:3 versions, but still -- got a widescreen preview (which I believe, without burning through a stack of DVD's, will produce a stretched widescreen version.
I'm using iDVD 7.02, FCE 4.0, OS 10.5.4, on a 2.8 ghz 24" iMac core duo. I'm totally baffled - cuz I don't think I did anything different between last week and this week - and the client wants to know where the DVD is. arggh.

After spending many, many hours - I fixed the issue. I bought Roxio Toast 9. Problem solved. Deadline met.

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MartinSW wrote:
cath60 wrote:
Actually, i have another question... since i was not made aware of this design fault when i took out the contract, can i cancel it? Really cross.
The picture should be displayed on your TV in a letterbox - a wide thin image in the horizontal middle with black bars top and bottom. If you're seeing it any other way the chances are your TV IS doing something to the picture.
I think the problem is actually that the TV isn't doing anything to the picture. It's just treating all signals as though they are 4:3 regardless of what the WSS indicator is telling it (SCART Pin 8 ?). Hence 7ft-person-o-vision. This seems a bit daft considering widescreen transmissions have been around for donkeys years long before digital TV or Freeview and Youview. The TV does seem to have a fundamental design fault. I have a 14 year old portable 4:3 CRT TV and even that allows me to display widescreen transmissions correctly in letterboxed format.
cath60,
I can appreciate that you might have assumed a new box would do the appropriate 4:3 reformatting like the BT Vision box does, but I guess they have to phase out support for certain things at some point in time. All the BT boxes after the silver ones also had the picture output over RF cable facility removed as well which annoyed a lot of customers. Sky have now removed that from their latest boxes as well. Things move on. It's just unfortunate that you happen to also have a TV that seems to have been designed with no thought for widescreen transmissions.

IDVD not changing aspect ratio to 4:3

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