Widescreen cropping on DVD player

Hi
after exporting a sequence from 'Photo to Movie' and writing to DVD - when I play it through my home DVD player the sides get cropped off. I think it has something to do with the fact that its an anomorphic export (dont know much about the process)
my question is anybody know of any app ie. iMovie, iDVD FCP etc would be able to 'un'anomorphosise' the video
thanks for your help
N

Well.. let me go into more detail about the problem
The when played, the screen stays at 4:3 with 2 big black bars either side, but the movie playing has been strectched 2 widescreen so that the sides are therefor cropped off.
I've experienced this with only 1 or 2 commercial DVDs on this player - im guessing its something to do with the player getting confused with the aspect ratio or something.
Having said this - when I look at the movies info I get the following:
Apple Intermediate Codec, 1440 x 1080 (1888 x 1062),
Millions
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Stereo, 44.100 kHz
Which looks as though it hasnt actually been exported as anomorphic after all
mmmmm... strange. my only other similar DVD autoring experience was with a widescreen video from FCP (written wit h iDVD) this worked fine - probably because the footage was 4:3 with bars top and bottom
mmmm... the fact that iDVD6 says it now writes in widescreen looks promosing, but its hard to tell if it would make much difference

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deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
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less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
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• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
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other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
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• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
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Please let me know if these particular Premiere Elements 13 menus work for you also.
Thanks.
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DVD player plays 4:3 but edited in 16:9

Hi,
I've edited a dvd in iDVD in 16:9 format. The preview in iDVD shows correct 16:9. But when i burn this to dvd and play on my Sony DVD player, it plays cropped to 4:3.
Any help is apprecieted.
Robert

Here is a free one...http://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/fcplugins/dh_widesafe.php
tim
just double-checked...it's NOT free
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Script to determine how a DVD player is configured and enable the Stream

Hi
Does anyone know how to use scripts to detect the configuration of a DVD Player (I am interested in aspect ratio settings) and then using another script, choose the appropriate subtitle stream to use for that player?
Cheers
Barry

Hi...Thanks I figured it out... the script is as follows if you want to know and is set as the first play...
1 mov GPRM 7, 512
2 mov GPRM 6, 3072
3 Goto 5 if (GPRM 7 = SPRM 14)
4 Goto 7 if (GPRM 6 = SPRM 14)
5 Set System Stream St(Subtitle Stream 1)(On)
6 Jump Intro
7 Set System Stream St(Subtitle Stream 2)(On)
7 Jump Intro
We are making Education DVDs that go with a book... each exercise is a separate video clip which could be used in more than one book, at different stages. We need to apply an exercise number over the video but do not want to do it in FCP as this would mean having many outputs for one file. We are creating a library of exercises so there fore we place a graphic in FCP for the text to sit on. The most efficient way to add the exercise number is in DVDSP using subtitles. But because of the way DVDSP handles subtitles for wide-screen letterboxed video there is a difference to the way a DVD Player displays the subtitle if the DVD Player is set to 16:9 Wide Screen compared to 4:3 letterbox... if we do not do this then if the text is in the correct place for 16:9 widescreen DVD settings it will be in the wrong place for a 4:3 letterboxed DVD Player...
I hope that makes sense... anyway, thanks for your help. I seem to have solved the issue with your help.
Much appreciated..
Barry

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