Please Help!!! DVD studio Pro Aspect ratio problems!

Please Help!!! I am using DVD studio Pro (Ver 4.1.0) to make a dvd using SD DV format 4:3 videos. After I burn the dvd and play the dvd on my 4:3 televison the video does not fill up the whole screen of the television, and also when I Simulate the DVD in Studio Pro it does not fill up the whole simulation screen (however the simulation screen is in 16:9 ratio and I also do not know how to change it to a 4:3 simulation screen). Can anyone please help me My family really wants the family videos but I cannot send them videos that look bunched up on the TV, I want it to be perfect!!. Thank you so much in advance for any help/advice, Darin.

Hi and wellcome to the forums !
Check if your tracks are set to Display Mode 4:3.
however the simulation screen is in 16:9 ratio and I also do not know how to change it to a 4:3 simulation screen
While simulating look for the Display Mode settings in the left lower corner of the Simulator.
I want it to be perfect!!
I think that's too much for these forums !
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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Dvd studio pro aspect ratio, any help would be awesome!!!

Hey mate, I have a quick question with finishing off my DVD.
What are the best settings for creating a normal dvd.
I have created a long film using my Canon DSLR, I have exported my film through compressor in 16:9 and imported it in DVD studio pro. I have used the 16:9 letterbox settings in DVD studio pro and burnt a disk, and when I play it back some DVD players make it look like it is squished horizontally so that everything looks fat, some dvd players automatically adjust and some you have to change some settings to make it look normal. What is the best way to make it look standard widescreen and not require any adjustments on the DVD players.
Am I correct in saying that by exporting it as 16:9 in compressor it makes it widescreen and then by selecting 16:9 in DVD studio pro it doubles the letterbox format and then looks squished, hence I should select 4:3 in DVD studio pro? Not sure here.
I would really appreciate any help anyone can give me, my film is stuck as a result of this problem. PLEASE help me.
Cheers mate,
jez

Hi Jez,
You should post this to the Final Cut Studio board since it doesn't involve Final Cut Server.

DVD Studio Pro aspect ratio

Hi!
I'm creating a DVD and in my FC project I have both types of material 16:9 and 4:3, I decided that its better to make it all 4:3, so I exported with Compressor Best Quality 4:3, but now I have a problem, as its gonna be played in different players, when I play it on a player that its set to play everything 16:9 it looks bad, its there a way to set the DVD to set automatically to play only 4:3?
Hope its not to confusing!
Cheers
Javier

Javier
The correct DVDSP *Display Mode* setting for your tracks is:
4:3 Tracks ---> 4:3
16:9 Tracks ---> 16:9 Letterbox
But the DVD Player and TV settings can override your DVD configuration and there nothing you can do to solve that.
I decided that its better to make it all 4:3, so I exported with Compressor Best Quality 4:3
You mean you re-edited all your movie in a 4:3 FCP sequence, right?
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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Hm I think I figured it out, the drive that contains the actual MOV file is almost full. I guess I need extra space on that drive, not the "target" drive. Moving that MOV file to a different drive seemed to fix the problem.

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With the latest update to QuickTime 7.1.3 I've noticed that video captured with FCP 5.1.2 presets, namely DV NTSC 48 kHz, video will be captured and QuickTime will say the frame size is 720x480, but when you view the video in QuickTime it looks more like 640x480. The point is that when you edit this in FCP and view on an external monitor or export to DVD for that mater, it looks like the pixels don’t match up. This is the case on 5 machines and I’ve attached a link to download a still frame. Please advise. It also should be noted that this problem is most noticeable in b&w and sepia. http://www.livingcinema.net/upload/pixel_problem.jpg.zip

The point is that when you edit this in FCP and view on an external monitor or export to DVD for that mater, it looks like the pixels don’t match up.
Not sure what you are referring to here by "don't match up." Basically, what you describe is normal. Your editor is displaying the rectangular pixel reprsentation of video using square pixels which makes its display look wider than "normal." QT, on the other hand, displays the video in square pixels which representats the way your video should look on a rectangular pixel device like a TV.
This is the case on 5 machines and I’ve attached a link to download a still frame.
Looks normal to me for a video to be played on TV. If your edited output is not destined to be viewed on a rectangular pixel device, then set explicit screen dimensions as part of your output conversion routine if other than DV. As you noted in your question, the QT player is adaptive. So when it recognizes the DV "720 x 480 (640 x 480)" parameters, will correctly display the file automatically.

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I just made a DVD for a client, with his reel, and a slideshow of his portfolio. The Slideshow is composed of 52 images, each 1.5 seconds long, with a lens flare transition, accompanied by a track of music.
I just got word from him that the slideshow jams up on regular DVD players, by plays fine on a Mac.
Any idea what I could do to avoid this problem? Is it the transition?
-Steve!

Not sure exactly how the combined bitrate of the audio and video will wind up when DVDSP encodes all the dinky little mpeg assets for this slideshow, but if the disc pauses, breaks up, or stops, and not always in the same place, a spike in the bitrate might cause this issue.
Also, 1.5 seconds is pretty close to the minimum gap between chapter markers, and the player might be choking on the GOPs.
A couple things to try -
Change DVDSPs encoding prefs to lower the bitrate - usually the default is low enough to avoid exceeding the maximum, but if you are using PCM audio, this might help. I have also heard that changing the "Final Rendering" setting in the Menu pane of the prefs panel can result in more robust encoded material from within DVDSP.
Convert the Slideshow to a Track. Conceivably, the resulting VTS on the disc should be the same, and the onlny difference should be the way you work with this element in DVDSPs abstraction layer, but there may be something about the way DVDSP is encoding the material and building that VTS that might be improved by converting it to a track.
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Please Help! Mac Pro 2008 Power Problem!

Hi there! The reason of this message is to let you guys know about my problem
Last Thursday i was working all night with my 2008 Mac Pro. Early in the morning went to shut down my computer and discovered that i had a "no video signal" in my Dell monitor. Tried to solve that but i couldnt solve it. So I did a force shut down with the button
During the evening when ive returned home i tried to start up my computer but nothing happened when I press the Power button but a "click" sound.
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I have seen these symptoms before.
It could be a component like hard disk, video card or worse, power supply.
If you are getting a "click" sound what you want to do is see if the Mac can respond to a component missing.
Like hearing a heart beat through sound. Disconnecting components is a valid troubleshooting process.
Disconnect the following until you hear a chime:
1. All peripherals including display -- USB, FireWire, etc.
2. Video Card
3. Hard disk
4. RAM
If you hear a "heartbeat" add components back until it goes zombie again. Then at least you will know which thing needs replacing.
May also try zapping PRAM at boot: CMD-OPT-P-R
One time a MacPro was catatonic.
I booted to another drive with DiskWarrior. DW brought it back to life.
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Save subtitles created in DVD Studio Pro as a new .txt or .srt file

I just did the authoring of a 52mn documentary with 4 subtitles tracks, we received from the translator .srt's files which we imported with no problem in DVD Studio Pro. The problem is that there was a lot of mistakes and badly timed texts due to the poor work of the translation cie. We had to edit the subtitles and it was very easy in the subtitles editor in DVD studio Pro...Now I have to do a master of the film on beta num and i want to provide to my post production cie a QT file of the movie + a .stl of the subtitles we edited within DVDSP : How can I export the text from the subtitles track to create a new .srt, without having to do it manually which is very time consuming
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please amigos, help me !

You can export an Item description of the track with the subs in which you have corrected and use Subtitle Xtractor
http://www.truevision-video.de/
It's a free program and can take the Item Description and as the name implies extract the subtitles and create an STL file. Very handy
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I recently had a hard drive meltdown, and had to install a new internal HD. I reinstalled all my software and everything works great except DVD Studio Pro 4.0.3
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SOLUTION: After an unbelievable number of hours trying to resolve this "missing templates" situation with DVD Studio Pro 4.2 I finally found the problem (bug?). The choose feature in "preferences" is broken. Apple's instructions tell us to go to the preferences, Destinations, Palette Elements, and set the following path:/Library/Application Support/DVD Studio Pro which, as you probably already know, does not work. Reinstall doesn't work either. Nothing works.
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Is there anyone out there that uses DVD Studio Pro 4 without problems. When using the templates both the text and stills are grainy or pixelated. As a test I created a movie and stills in FCP imported them into DVDSP, the movie quality superb, the text and stills for the menus - rubbish. I then used the same content in iDVD - perfect menus. It is really annoying when you invest in Pro software and the results aren't as good as you get with a freebie!
Is there something obvious I am doing wrong?

fairpaul wrote:
Is there anyone out there that uses DVD Studio Pro 4 without problems. When using the templates both the text and stills are grainy or pixelated. As a test I created a movie and stills in FCP imported them into DVDSP, the movie quality superb, the text and stills for the menus - rubbish. I then used the same content in iDVD - perfect menus. It is really annoying when you invest in Pro software and the results aren't as good as you get with a freebie!
Is there something obvious I am doing wrong?
Can't tell from your post if you're looking at your DVDSP project on your Mac or you have finished the project, burned the DVD, and are watching it on a tv set top box.
To answer your first question, yes, I have no such issues with DVDSP4, I use some of the templates but not many, I usually change the typefaces, though. I have never used iDVD so I can't tell you if the results are superior in that product.
bogiesan

Aspect ratio problem in Windows Media Player for DVD from DVD Studio Pro

So I made a DVD with DVD Studio Pro and it looks good in Apple's DVD Player, on an Insignia DVD player appliance and on Playstation 2. Both the movie and the deleted scene were 16:9 from camera to Final Cut Pro and they show that way in all these players.
But on Windows Media Player for Windows XP, the program thinks the movie is 4:3 and the deleted scene is 16:9. Nero's Showtime has the same exact behavior, but at least you can force aspect ratio on Nero.
Besides being longer, the movie is different from the deleted scene in that the movie was originally out of Final Cut Express on an older Mac and it was encoded big endian. The deleted scene was output from Final Cut Pro and encoded little endian. I didn't think it would make a difference, but I tried outputting the movie from Final Cut Pro on the newer Mac and it did come out little endian. I took that into DVD Studio Pro, got rid of the old VIDEO_TS folder and re-built the project, burnt a new DVD. Then I went back to Windows and...
...the same exact problem. Some of the people I give this DVD to will be using Windows Media Player to view it, which is why I want this to not be an issue at all. What am I overlooking?

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DVD studio pro will not burn menus PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE HELP!!!
I have created a project, a DVD with menus and subtitles in 2 languages, yet when I burn the DVD (both using build/format option and build format options separately)the resulting DVD has no main menu, actually it has no menus at all! it goes straight into the DVD film where I can change subtitles language only from the remote buttons. The project compiles successfully but once formatting it gives me two hilghlighted errors in the log (which I gather are the layouts/menus)HERE IS THE LOG (highlighted part is error message):
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Compiler Initializing...
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Compiling Menu#2 (Menu 2)...
Skipped Rendering Menu:Menu 2,Language:1.
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Writing VTS#1...
Writing VMG...
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+*Warning: The file ‘VOB_DATA.LAY’ found in the VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.*+
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Writing UDF 2.50 structures
Writing files
Writing final UDF information
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DOES ANYONE PLEASE KNOW THE REASON FOR THIS???? AND HOW TO SOLVE IT???? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...HAVE TO SEND THIS PROJECT OFF SOON.
I have burned another project with menus succesfully..

Hi
FIRST check that your Play Movie button in your menu has NOT an Auto Action selected that make it plays automatically your movie when the Menu loads. You'll find that setting in the Advanced tab of Inspector. If not . . .
You can try a workaround, no matter that if you have your Menu as First Play it must work. Try yhis:
- Create a simple black JPG file i.e. in Photoshop
- Create a Slideshow
- Add a the JPG to the slideshow, set duration 2 secs
- Set the Slideshow as First Play
- Set Slideshow End Jump to your Main Menu
Build and burn again.
Alberto

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seraphine8 wrote:
ah, thank you, the mystery about the studio pro 3 is somewhat solved. i've been having problems with it ever since i transitioned to the intel, but strangely it has worked about half the time so i didn't think it was unsupported altogether.
Nope officially unsupported and not to be used on Intel Machines (though of course once in awhile it will work properly, which is almost worse than never working )
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