Sharing NTSC Wide Screen When Shooting and Editing in 1440 Question

I render as NTSC DVD Wide Screen the instructional videos I shoot in 1440. I do this so that I can then use Handbrake to create MP4 Chapters which I think uplod to S3 and build chapter playlists which my users find very valuable. The problem that I am looking for a solution to is this.
The NTSC Wide Screen is only 720 px wide which scrunches the video. It looks so much better in 1440 then 720. It seems the only way to get to 1440 is to render as an MPEG but then I lose the chapter markers. So I know (or so I've been told) that I can render in AVI and preserve the chpater markers, but that takes 10 hours or so and the file size is just astronoimically large. Is there a way to create a 1440 (minimum) width DVD?
Thanks in Advance,
Dan

Premiere Elements should output a widescreen DVD from a project set up for widescreen. You do have your project settings set to 1440x1080 AVCHD video, right?
Have you checked the DVD files it outputs BEFORE you apply Handbrake to it? It could be that Handbrake is changing the pixel aspect ratio?
Try using Share/Computer/AVI with a DV preset to output your 1440x1080 movie as standard definition video. Does it produce a widescreen video? (Again, it's vital that your original project be set up to match your original video specs in order for these tools to work!)

Similar Messages

Shooting and editing at 24P, not 23.98

I am based in Beijing, where video is PAL. I’m working on pre-production on a feature film to be shot on a Varicam and edited in Final Cut Pro. We want to base editing around a future film print, and would rather shoot and edit at true 24p and not 23.98. We do not want to do an offline edit. I have one small question and one big question:
1. Is 23.98 merely to facilitate an easy NTSC workflow? I understand there are also sound-sync issues involved (?). We will be recording onto tape and DAT simultaneously.
2. I’m trying to create a “true” 24p FCP setup, so there will be no 23.98 element. I’ve installed the DVCproHD Components 1.1 and Frame Rate Converter for Final Cut Pro. Below, I’ll refer to true 24p (not 23.98) as “24.0”.
I’ve read this both can be done and cannot be done, and our team has discovered a maze of detailed pieces of disinformation regarding DVCPRO HD and 24p. Most articles and posts say FCP cannot do 24.0, but the Frame Rate Converter documentation seems to suggest this is possible.
I have created a 24.0 Easy Setup with:
- Sequence Preset with a 24.0 editing timebase; timecode rate “same as editing timebase”; Quicktime compression type 720p60 with 24.0 fps.
- Capture Preset with 720p24, and capturing at 23.98. (This appears to be unchangeable, and the compressor settings are locked at 59.94 fps. So it appears while the Varicam can shoot 24.0 progressive [with duplicate frames], FCP can only capture 23.98.)
- Device Control Presets with DVCPRO HD firewire preset I modified to a frame rate of 24.0.
So, I think I have all the setting set up for 24.0 EXCEPT for the compressor setting inside the capture preset, which appears to be locked at 59.94 and capturing at 23.98. So it looks like the only block to editing 24.0 DVCPRO HD is that FCP can’t capture it.
We are for sure going to use Varicam and edit on FCP 5.0, and if there’s no way to really edit online 24.0 HD, then we’ll do 23.98.
Thank you for any help. And as there are many conflicting posts and documentation on this issue, it would probably be most helpful for those with first-hand experience editing 24.0 in FCP to reply…
Quad G5 Power PC, G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Great question and the best of it all, you will have a true 24fps and 48k audio project throughout! Your settings look good.
It actually took me some time to figure out where you even seeing the 23.98 but I did find it under sequence presets. Mmmm... Now to explain this in a short e-mail.
1. The problem is all with NTSC. If you stay in FCP, output to HD, never look at the video on an NTSC monitor, then your project will always be 24fps and the audio will always be 48k. No worries. As a result, that 23.98fps frame rate in the Summary Sequence setting is a bit misleading and only applies to playing back 24 frame projects on NTSC equipment - laying back to tape and viewing on a NTSC TV/Monitor. (This is true for film based or HD projects - film runs at 24fps too). In FCP, Your sequence willsonly playback and edit 24fps.
2. Why is 23.98 even there then? The answer takes 3 steps - do you have the patience to read them all, as it is quite dry.
STEP 1: (what most people know)
NTSC puts 29.97 frames a second on a screen. Your version of reality was recorded at 24 frames a second. If we could just bypass all the electronics built into your 24HD deck and NTSC monitor and just play your tape on a NTSC monitor, your images would look like everyone is moving about 25% faster (29.97 divided 24). Another way to look at this is that in 10 seconds, the NTSC monitor will display 299.7 frames (10 seconds times 29.97). If we played back 299.7 of your frames in 10 seconds, we would actually be looking at about 12 seconds of your recordered reality. So the important how do we keep your 24fps looking like reality rather than speeding it up? The answer is to add 5.97 frames to your image when playing back on a machine that is displaying 29.97fps (NTSC). Believe it or not, this is not that hard to do. The most basic explanation being that by duplicating some of the 24fps frames and merging others you create an extra 5.97 frames and simply insert these extra frames inside the 24 so that you now have 29.97 frames instead of 24. Done properly, your eye cannot see the difference.
Step 2: (what confuses the people not already confused from above)
The problem arises is what the heck is .97 of a frame? What does it look like? It doesn't. Only 1 full frames are added. This is really an accounting problem, like where do all the quarter of a pennies go in the world? (Only Richard Pryor from Superman and the guys from Office Space seem to know.) The answer is, since we are already tricking your eye by adding extra frames that never existed in the first place on film (24fps) or 24 HD, by just not adding one of these 'created' frames every 10 seconds or so (you will never miss it don't worry) when you do the accounting in the end, an odd number like .97 of a frame is created. Bottom line - 6 full frames are added per second (24 real frames+6 created frames= 30 frames - darn close to 29.97), then by not adding one frame occasionally drops the overall average to 29.97) making TV networks happy, engineers look like geniuses and the rest of us posting long dry explanations on the net.
STEP 3 (The step almost no one understands, not even completely by me)
Ok, if you gotten this far and have an understanding congrats! So although the entire explanation above was a mathematical one, it was all really about our experience of ‘seeing.’ Everybody sees reality occur at the same pace (yes sport superstars seem to see things slower than others) but as humans we basically all see reality at about the same pace. The explanation above dealt with a technical issue that when reality is recorded at one speed and played back at another, how do we balance those technical things out so that people viewing the material see it as it was meant. Ok, here is the kicker - what about sound? Mmm, didn't think about that did you? I mean CD's have a frame rate of 44,000 samples a second called 44k. HD, DVcam, DAT all have 48k or 48000 samples a second – think of it like frames a second). So what do you do when all your material is in sync in your FCP (or Avid) playing back nicely at 24fps and you want to make an NTSC tape or watch it on a big TV monitor? Well if you are lazy like me, you would just duplicate 25% of the sound just like the picture (30 divided by 24) and just add it in at the same time you add in those extra 6 frames!! Perfect. But of course you cannot. Well actually you can, but it would sound bad, clicking and hiccupping. Your experience of the sound would be odd. So the engineers had to come up with another way to deal with sound. The slowed it down!! That’s right, since you can't add extra sound like picture, when converting 24 frames to 30 frames, they slowed the sound down. I am not an expert in this field so I dare not explain it as I am sure to create some inaccuracies, but that is what they do. So when you are listening to an Avid or FCP through an NTSC monitor or outputting to tape, the audio is being played back a little slower (47.97 in a 48k project) then how it was originally recorded! Again, engineers are tricking you – your ear this time. This minute slow down of the audio is not perceivable to most people.
ENOUGH!! SO WHAT ABOUT 23.98?
Ok ready? Digital Audio is the issue here. Digital Audio, DAT, DVcam, HD, DA88, is mostly recorded at 48k. CD's are 44K, but most other formats are 48k. The 24fps conversion to 29.997 conversion causes a major headache for audio folks. Without more boring details, when converting video from 24fps to 29.97fps, all the people have to re-adjust all of their audio from 48 to 49.97 to keep in sync. As a result they spend a lot of time converting their audio and more importantly to them, they lose the pure digital clarity. Also handing sound files back and forth between picture editors and sound editors and music editors has never been convenient because of this issue. At some point a sound file is imported or exported incorrectly and the sound has to be put through a digital process to get it to be in sync again. So how do you solve this constant tedious conversation about whether the Audio is at 48k or 49.97? Well the problem becomes an accounting one once again. The issue really is how the video editing machines account for time code. For the longest time, these machines were built with the idea "We do 24fps everybody resample around us." Remember, this technology was invented only 15 years ago when disk drives were small, machines were slow, and moving pictures were severely compressed to just to get them onto the hard drives. Keeping everything in sync was a major hardware task back then, and sales of machines that could edit 24 frames were dominated by film companies who only knew about 24 frames a second. Now, not so much. So to keep the audio at 48k and not need any conversions, the video editing machine would have to account for the conversion between 24fps and 29.97 NTSC time code slightly differently. The answer is to play back 24fps back at 23.98 to NTSC devices and as result the audio would stay pure and original at 48K!! However, your cackles would arise and of course would cause the question in everyone’s mind which was your first question “are we really editing at 24fps?” Which is of course why long ago nobody ever marketed a 23.98 Video Editing Software/hardware solution because all day long they would have to answer this question over and over. Better just make the machine do everything at 24fps (even the accounting) and let the audio grunts have to deal with it.
So the answer is yes, you will be editing in 24fps. Audio will remain at a pure and original 48k. And if you have to output to NTSC for any reason (and yes I promise you one will come up) the machine will play the picture back at 23.98 so that it looks great and the audio will come out at a pure 48k.
Good luck
Doug

Like most professional photographers, I shoot and edit in RAW rather then JPEG. Is Photos app going to allow me to use the RAW format?

Like most professional photographers, I shoot and edit in RAW rather then JPEG. Is the Photos app going to allow me to use the RAW format?
iMac with 3TB drive and 32 GIG of RAM. Three DROBO storage systems for data and backup.

Try the alternatives, or wait for reports by the users who already migrated. For example, Capture One is more similar to Aperture than Lightroom:
http://www.cnet.com/news/phase-ones-updated-image-editor-throws-apple-aperture-u sers-a-lifeline/
http://www.photographybay.com/2014/10/01/capture-one-pro-8-unveiled-features-app le-aperture-migrate-option/
I'll keep my main libraries in Aperture, as long as it compatible with the operating system. If that no longer works, I'll start a new main library with digikam. If there is no native Mac application, that offers what I need for my workflow, I'll switch back to open source software.

Has anyone encountered an "exclamation point" in a white circle centered on a black screen when trying to edit a photo?

Has anyone encountered an "exclamation point symbol" in a gray circle surrounded by a black screen when editing in iphoto?

Yes.
The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later...
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

Poor Quality in Wide-Screen When Exporting HD to Quicktime

Hello all...
I'm working on a fairly large project in iMovie HD with wide-screen footage from my Sony HDR-HC3 and have hit a wall.
I can't seem to get a good result when I export clips into Quicktime in a wide-screen format. They are a bit choppy & you can see bits of some horizontal lines. The same video exported in full-screen VGA looks great. Any tips...? I basically just want to make good quality QT movies watchable on my computer that maintain the original aspect ratio (and LOOK like they do in iMovie!)
The entire project is around 100GB and I currently have almost 40GB of free space. Any help appreciated!
Dual 2.3 G5 with 4.5GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.6)

What do you need to end up with? Just a file to play back or burn to a DVD or make a web stream or?
Jerry

Why can't I get wide screen when burning a dvd?

My sequence is all 1920x 1080 HD footage in mpeg2. My photos are all 1920 x1080 px. In encore if I want to burn a standard DVD it automatically goes to 720x480 if I choose " mpeg2dvd" format. Why isn't there a wide screen mpeg2 dvd format?

Colin, what you show is the dialog box when I do file> export media, right? Except mine is different (Pr 5.5 iss different?) and has a check box for "match source attributes" and when that is checked the format box is grayed out. And I don't see where you can customize anything.
What's the purpose of File>export media if it doesn't create a dvd?
If i do File> dyn link> send to encore there is no dialog box like you showed. it doesn't give any choices except dvd or blu ray and no "wide screen".
Are you all saying that 720x480 is all you get on a dvd and if your source is 16x9 it will squish it to fit? aren't hollywood dvd's in 16x9?

Black Screen When Trying to Edit Photos

I have the same problem as many others: When trying to Edit a photo, double clicking it creates a normal enlarged screen but this screen is all black. The problem has been raised by many for some time but no solutions have been identified. Should I be surprised that Apple has not yet addressed or even recognize the problem?

what does it mean to right con it?
Sorry - right "click" - fat fingers here
when i try to view photos on full screen, i now get a black screen with a white exclamation point. i view these pictures earlier this year with no problem. please help!
That indicates that iPhoto has lost the connection between the thumbnail and the full photo - if you have not been messing around inside the iPhoto library (you NEVER should do this) then backup and rebuild your library - depress the command and options keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your library form the last automatic database backup - if that does not fix it use the other options - as a last resort use iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - to rebuild your library
LN

Hp 500-267c black screen when updating and installing programs

screen goes black and i have to reboot when installing downloaded program or hp update. works fine with windows update. this machine is only 30 days old and seams to have the problem when I got it. At first Ithought it was a bad keyboard but it was'n.
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Hello @jsk2,
I understand that you are having issues with the screen being blank when you restart after installing a program or HP Update on your HP Pavilion 500-267c Desktop PC. Given how new your computer is please call our technical support at 800-474-6836. If you live outside the US/Canada Region, please click the link below to get the support number for your region. http://www8.hp.com/us/en/contact-hp/ww-phone-assist.html. With any new product you want to ensure it is functioning correctly and that any issues are properly documented and dealt with properly.
I would like to thank you for posting on the HP Forums. Have a great day!
Please click the "Thumbs Up" on the bottom right of this post to say thank you if you appreciate the support I provide!
Also be sure to mark my post as “Accept as Solution" if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others who face the same challenge find the same solution.
Dunidar
I work on behalf of HP
Find out a bit more about me by checking out my profile!
"Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong." ~ Donald Porter

Ipod camera black screen when opened and sync prob HELP!!!

hello i just went to open the camera on my ipod touch 4g and it just went black just a black screen when i press the home button it goes straight to the home screen everything else is fine i just open the camera and a black screen appears, it is working fine now but just wondering if it is faulty or somthing.
some times it does not sync i will plug it into the computes usb port and it wont charge i takes about 3 to 6 tries to get it to work any help thanks

Same thing just happened to me, found another solution though.
Plug the USB cable into your PC/base of iPod Touch.
Turn off the iPod completely.
Wait 10 seconds and re-power the iPod.
Now load up the camera; and the screen should be back to normal.
I have similar screen freeze issue with my Sony Erricson K700i Mobile phone, and plugging in the 'power' cable always resolves it, so it would seem to be of the same method used to resolve this iPod issue!!
Strange thing as you've posted, all other apps etc still work. Maybe support will get around to resolving this bug!!

5800 XM problems.. Black Screen when playing and b...

When playing Rt GR the screen gets Black and after like 3 seconds it comes back to Normal. Does the phone have a defect or something? And another question is about The 3 buttons : The green, The White and The Red. I have a problem because sometimes the White doesn't light up while the other's Do and after a while it lights up but soon after it fades again. Is my mobile defect or something? Or its normal, cause I am a bit worried since I bought it today

Dear Sir, yes, I have bought 5800 two days ago and found the same problems. it's not Iphone the touchscreen is bad or software is bad or the same. you should always press wtice on any button and it reacts bad way tell the truth. About your problem with white button I think it';s normal for this thing and your black screen is because of law capacity of the hardware in this phone. I'm dissapointed with this phone

My iphone 4s will not switch to the wide screen when I turn my phone sideways from an upright position, does anyone have any suggestions to get this feature working again? Thanks.

Is there an on or off button for this feature, as the screen on my phone will not switch from upright to the lengthened screen when I turn the phone sideways. My phone is very new, just got it beginning of July of this year (2012). Has this happened to anyone?
Thanks

Is orientation lock on?
iPhone User Guide (For iOS 6 Software)

When trying to import music files I get a error message that says "importer reported a generic error" I'm using windows 7, DellPC, installed premiere elements 13 2 days ago. Also when previewing and editing video,screen looks great but when I transfer to

When trying to import music files I get an error message Thea says "importer reported a generic error". Also when editing video, screen views look great but when I transfer to PC or flash drive video quality is very poor. Any suggestions?

chansen232
Premiere Elements 13 on Windows 7 (presumed 64 bit).....
1. Music files and error message...are these music files from iTunes? If so, convert them to .wav in iTunes to convert them to wav version, and then import the .wav version into Premiere Elements 13 project using Premiere Elements 13 Expert workspace's Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets from where you drag the wav version to the Soundtrack.
The following are the instructions for the iTunes converting
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1550
If any problems with the instructions, please let me know, and I will go through them with you.
2. How you set up the project and the export settings that you select greatly influence your end product result.
a. What are the properties of the source media?
b. What project preset did you (manually) or the project (automatically) set to match the properties of the source media.
(If you do not know, please tell us what you see for the readings of Editing Mode, Timebase, Frame Size, Pixel Aspect Ratio - even
if the fields look grayed out.)
c. For your export...Publish+Share/Computer/and then what? And what preset? Did you use the default settings of the preset or did you
customize the export settings of the preset under the preset's Advanced Button/Video Tab and Audio Tab?
Let us start here and then decide what next.
Thanks.
ATR

Black Screen when trying to edit

I have read other threads with this problem and posted, but no answers so thought I better start a new one. Hope I have included enough info so this situation can be fixed easily.
When sorting photos by title there are two identical photos showing - I don't remember a duplicate issue happening. In the info they are the identical filename, size, time etc. One opens in edit mode the other has a black screen.
I right clicked on each and for the one that shows up black, both the "show file" and "show original file" show up. When you click on "show file" there is nothing there - if you click on "show original file", folders come up, but not an individual file.
For one that shows in edit mode, when right clicking "show file" the file is there highlighted. The "show originalfile" is grayed out. In "show file" I did a "get info" on the highlighted file and it shows that it is in the iPhoto Library - Original Folder.
I went to the iPhoto library and clicked "show package info" and one of these duplicate files is there.
Any ideas on what happened?
Can I just delete the duplicate file in iPhoto and problem solved?
I would rather not have to rebuild the library - if I have to - what if anything will I lose? (albums, slideshows, places, faces, anything?) I use Time Machine with an external dedicated drive but am not sure when this may have happened.
Just thought of one other thing. I did some work on this photo using Adobe Photoshop Elements. I could not do a simple save back to iPhoto due to the changes made - so I did a save-as to the desktop and then did a file import of that file and it is fine. I'm thinking now this may be a clue as to what might have caused all of this.

First I suggest you backup and launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed to rebuild the library. Select the last three options.
Click to view full size
This will not lost any albums, slideshows, faces or places. When that is done you can check those blank duplicates and delete them from the library. You'll still have the backup if the end result is not an improvement.

Black screen when trying to edit a photo

When my wife attempts to edit a photo in iPhoto the photo area goes black:. she is running the latest iPhoto on a MacBook running Lion

There are several possible causes for the Black Screen issue
1. Permissions in the Library: Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Include the option to check and repair permissions.
2. Minor Database corruption: Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
3. A Damaged Photo: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and right click on it. From the resulting menu select 'Show File (or 'Show Original File' if that's available). (On iPhoto 11 this option is under the File -> Reveal in Finder.) Will the file open in Preview? If not then the file is damaged. Time to restore from your back up.
4. A corrupted iPhoto Cache: Trash the com.apple.iPhoto folder from HD/Users/Your Name/Library/ Caches...
5. A corrupted preference file: Trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder. (Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
If none of these help:
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?

Shoot and edit 50i or 60i for final transfer to film?

Hello:
I'm sure this is an often asked question but...
I am shooting a short film that hopefully will have a film transfer for the festival circuit. The short may become integrated into a feature length project if feedback for the short is positive.
I am shooting with a Sony HVR-Z1U in the HDV mode(audio recorded to DAT) so, given that I hope to eventually transfer to film should I shoot at 50i (PAL) or 60i (NTSC)?
I have already been warned off using the cineframe/film-look modes.
I intend to edit in the ProRes format on FCP.
All thoughts and suggestions welcome.
A

Hi,
you can start reading at this section of the online documentation:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=91%2 6section=7
Regards,
Armando.

Sharing NTSC Wide Screen When Shooting and Editing in 1440 Question

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for