Widescreen help!

After I updated to ios 5.1 the iPad ran a setup during which it asked me to set videos in widescreen format. I checked yes of course and now when I log onto Facebook any YouTube video posts by myself or others are in a widescreen size covering the like, comment and video name to the right. How do I set it back to the Old 4:9 format? The option is gone out of settings now. Help me please! Sooooo frustrated!

IMovie HD letterboxes some .mov files it imports to 4:3 projects.
A workaround is to open the .mov with QT Player Pro and export it as a .dv stream with 4:3 flag set. THEN iMovie HD imports it OK.

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Everything is widescreen help.

Hi.
Whenever I try to import one of my quicktime movie clips, iMovie is converting them to widescreen. Why is this? When I create the file at the store, I'm choosing MPEG-4 and DV, not widescreen, so why is it making everything widescreen? Thanks for the help. I appreciate.

IMovie HD letterboxes some .mov files it imports to 4:3 projects.
A workaround is to open the .mov with QT Player Pro and export it as a .dv stream with 4:3 flag set. THEN iMovie HD imports it OK.

Please help! My new widescreen isn't working!

So I bought a 22inch widescreen monitor for my 933mhz Quicksilver G4. The monitor has a resolution of 1680x1050. I used a DVI convertor and connected it to the ADC port.
The problem is the picture doesn't look all that great, and worse, it looks really stretched out. The maximum resolution my computer is offering me is 1280x1024, and I swear it used to be higher when I had it hooked up to a CRT.
I've tried to change the horizontal wideness on the monitor's controls, but that option isn't allowed (although when plugged into the VGA port it is).
I spoke with the monitor companies tech support and he says that my computer is supposed to be able to support that monitor.
I downloaded that driver that someone else posted on the forums, that didn't help.
What do I do? Do I need a new video card (I currently have a GE Force 4MX)? Do I need some kind of update? A new driver or something?
PowerMac G4 Quicksilver, 933Mhz Mac OS X (10.4.2)

I'm running a 21" Samsung widescreen at the recommended 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz. When I first got it I did some experimenting with some older graphics cards in my MDD G4 booted into OS X Tiger and OS 9.2.2. All cards were flashed to the latest ATI ROM and were using the latest ATI drivers.
It's true that OS X Tiger only displays the recommended resolutions for your graphics card, but with the large, widescreen, LCD monitors, you pretty much don't want to use any of the other possible resolutions. In OS 9.2.2 I was able to display all possible resolutions. Using an original Radeon for Mac, 32 MB card and a flashed PC Radeon 7000, 64 MB card, I couldn't achieve decent video with either. BTW, I used a DVI hook-up for all.
Can't remember which one, but one wouldn't display widescreen resolutions at all (think it was the Radeon for Mac card, which is very old) and the other couldn't display up to 1680 x 1050, so I used a lesser widescreen resolution. The lesser widescreen resolution was adequate for just looking at your monitor, but couldn't play DVD movies without lowering the resolution even more. The best picture with either of them was not as sharp as the display model of my monitor in the store.
Part of the problem is that neither of those old video cards provided Quartz Extreme support in OS X Tiger, much less Core Image support. That makes a big difference, at least with the large, widescreen monitors.
What I'm telling you is that your video card is center of the issue. After you ensure that you have its ROM updated and you are using the latest drivers, if you still don't see 1680 x 1050 or any other widescreen resolutions as an option (based on the limited resolution info on NVIDIA's site, I think you already have the best resolution you can get and there aren't any supported widescreen resolutions), and/or System Profiler doesn't show Quartz Extreme supported, you should be looking for a new video card. I know that the Radeon 9000 will give you Quartz Extreme support (I put one in a friend's Sawtooth G4 w/ a 1.2 GHz processor upgrade and got QE supported, but not CI) and some widescreen resolutions, including 1680 x 1050.
Good luck,
Carl B.

USING A NEW MINI ON A 1080i HDTV WIDESCREEN PROJECTION TV...HELP!!!!

Hi!
As mentioned on the topic I own a samsung 62" widescreen (yes, 16x9) with HDTV built in (You should see the xbox360 running on this thing!) The thing is, I've looked for a while and I'd like to buy a mac mini for the MEDIA HUB of my home theather.
PROBLEM:
My tv does not have a DVI/VGA port... It only has Svideo, Video and Component video.
Solutions????
I know that there are cables that go from VGA to component... but as i've read they do not work.... or do they work on my tv?
Transcoders and decoders??? They cost as much as a new mini (depending on the manufacturer, but they do cost arround 300 or so bucks!)
Apple's adapter? (DVI TO SVIDEO OR VIDEO?) nah... I hear it *****!
So my solutions???
Buy a new tv (not an option)
SOMEONE CONFIRMS THAT THIS MAGICAL CABLE WORKS ON MY TV!!! YEY!!!
(A GOOD OPTION)
Or just stick around with apples adapter!
Thanks for your patience and I hope you could help me out
best!
believe it or not, pretty much every apple product released since 2003, except new intel mini Mac OS X (10.4.5)

well, that's kind of have an old school tube. I think it's gonna cost ya a pretty penny to do what you want to do with high quality or you can try this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/M1-DVI-to-component-RCA-RGB-Projector-HDTV-video-cable_W0QQi temZ9702015171QQcategoryZ79875QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
This post will expire and the link will die so all I did was search for DVI to RGB and got a bunch of cables.
or
http://www.ati.com/products/hdtvadapter/index.html
which is
http://www.directron.com/hdtvadapter.html

Playstation 2 to Widescreen LCD Monitor-- Help

I recently purchased a 23" Acer widescreen 1080P monitor at a Black Friday sale, and I love this new monitor. It's twice as big as my old one and it is really nice. Anyway, I've heard stories of people hooking up video game systems (in my case a Playstation 2 would be what I would like to hook up) to their monitors. My neighbor a few houses down has his 360 hooked up to his aging CRT type monitor. I don't know the exact details but i've looked up a lot of information on how to do so, and it's all very confusing. First, i'd like to point out that that in addition to the standard VGA cable to plug into my desktop tower, it also features a DVI-D jack. As I mentioned above I would like to start hooking up my Playstation 2 to my monitor and playing on the widescreen. I know it can be done and it has been done, I just would like to know a simple way to start doing it, and if possible, items I could purchase at my local Best Buy so that I could play my Playstation on my monitor again. Any and all opinions/tips to accomplish this are welcomed. I am 17 years old and I have about 50 games for my Playstation 2, most of which I have owned since my childhood. I would like to fully enjoy these games more often, so please help!
-Pete

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Widescreen HD resolution help please

Hi I have a project I want to render out from Maya but I'm confused what format/settings to render out!
I have both Premier and after effects and the final output is intended for HI Definition widescreen TV on CD/DVD as I want the best possible quality and then another smaller version in both memory and size preferably quicktime format.
Ok so Ive searched the net and I have 2 different sizes resolutions for widescreen 1366 x 768, 1080p and 720 x 480 ..... what should I use?
I'm I correct in saying if I do output in this format can it be played on a regular TV? ... I under stand the quality will bot be as good but my big question is will the images be squashed of stretched?
Squashed of stretched will be the case then what would be the best thing to do ... out put 1 for each ie. one for HDtv widescreen and one for reg tv widescreen?
I have around 10-20% knowledge of both premier and after effect.
I really just need some advice on what codec to use and what resolution
Any help will be much appreciated
Thanks
Wayne

OK... so I open a new project in premier I dont see the setting for 1920x1080.
Under the HDV settings theres the 1080 settings but the frame sizes it give 1440x1080.... it also gives me the same settings in custom setting and it doesnt seem the the frames size can be changed.
any ideas?

Exporting Widescreen from FCP to mp4...help!

Help! I'm trying to export a 720x480 video from FCP, to upload onto youtube. I feel this should be easy, but no matter what codec i use, the exported video looks stretched. I want the video to stay widescreen, can have black bars at top and bottom, as long as aspect ratio is kept.
What am i doing wrong??

You mean 720x480 Anamorphic, yes?
Here's what I do...
File - Export - QT Conversion
BROADBAND HIGH
Then, click OPTIONS and change size to 420x270.
That will force 'widescreen' no letterbox.
Then, I load that to youtube directly and IT takes care of the letterboxing.
Good luck,
CaptM

Elements 8 ALWAYS reduces widescreen 16:9 to 4:3 - Please help!

I've got a new Panasonic camcorder and have recently taken some film of the Festival of Speed.
I've tried to edit it and save it to the PC but in the viewing pane during editing it was clearly 4:3. There seemed no way of correcting this so I plugged on, hoping it could be saved as Widescreen 16:9. It couldn't, and the resulting video looked terrible.
I even tried uploading it to Youtube, where there was a "widescreen" option. All this did was shrink the video in the viewing pane on youtube, still distorted.
I started again, this time paying careful attention to the opening choices. Seems there are various formats I can choose from, the ones relevant to me being:
PAL DV standard 48hz
PAL DV widescreen 48hz
I've tried both, but it's still 4:3 either way.
I've also tried watching "raw" copy from the memory card, that's correct 16:9, and I've tried loading a clip into Windows Movie Maker and that displays in the viewing pane as 16:9 and saves perfectly happily as 16:9. So I don't believe that the camera is at fault.
I've spent so far five hours on this, including a tortuous 30 minutes to Adobe support who basically said I need to pay them money for them to get it to work properly, which seems a little unfair if it's a glitch in their program.
I'd really appreciate help with this one, it is causing me a massive headache!
Many thanks in anticipation.

I'm really amazed and disappointed that Adobe can bring a product to market that doesn't simply have a 16:9 video size preset button, it's the normal standard video format these days.
Well, PrE does have the Video-standard for both NTSC and PAL DV-Widescreen, but that is for the Video-standard of 720 x 480 (NTSC), or 720 x 576 (PAL), with the appropriate PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) to produce those, 1.212 for NTSC and 1.422 for PAL. Your camera shoots neither. That is the problem. Why Panasonic, and a few others, have decided to deviate from the Video-standards, is a mystery to me.
The workaround to that non-standard footage is to choose either the NTSC, or PAL Widescreen, depending on where you live, and then Import your footage into that. Run Interpret footage on your Clips, and set Scale to Frame Size, to get the footage up to the Video-standard Frame Size w/ the proper PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) to accomplish that.
I'm going to have to consider the £50 this program cost a waste of money and try and find a program that does create movies in 16:9.
Adobe offers a 30-day, money-back guarantee. If you have not owned it for over 30 days, you can return it for a full refund.
It is not the 16:9 that is the problem, but the Frame Size that Panasonic chose, that is the issue. A lot of smart phones, that shoot video are also going with the smaller Frame Size, and those users are in the same boat, as you are.
Because Adobe has partnered with Nokia (I do not now what Frame Size the Nokias produce) on some recent projects, I would anticipate that PrE might soon get that different Frame Size. Whether it will be in PrE 10, I cannot say.
Good luck,
Hunt

Losing Quality When Burning in Widescreen ( PLease Help!)

I edited a video clip using FCE, that I shot in widescreen format(16:9) and when I went to burn to dvd using iDvD, the picture quality is greatly reduced. Is this a problem with the burning software? I was told that I had to get the Final Cut Suite and to use DvD pro to correct these issues. Is this correct or there a way to still utilize iDvd and not have to spend $700+ to get the suite? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You might want to try this question on the iDVD forum.

Need some Help Creating Widescreen Video???

Got a simple question (hopefully) from a first time user of Final Cut Express.... I'm trying to make my son's birth video in widescreen format. I must have accidentally changed something on the settings. (b/c I burned a video once before with FCE and it played in widescreen format). For some crazy reason this video will not play in widescreen and I cannot figure out what I've done wrong. I hate to start the project over, b/c I've spent so much time on it already.
Hoping it's simple......Can anyone help me?
Thank you!

We shot in widescreen format. Our new video recorder that we used is Canon HD 1920x 1080 Recording.
The item properties of the Sequence I edited are: Creator- QuickTime Player, Source- Macintosh HD, Size- 1.1 GB, Vid Rate- 29.97 fps, Frame Size- 720x 480, Compressor - H.264, Data Rate- 620.1 K/sec, Pixel Aspect - NTSC - CCIR 601, Field Dominance - Lower (Even), Alpha - None/Ignore, Composite- Normal.
Not sure how to find the item properties of the slip I captured.... working on that right now

I'm kinda new to FCP and need help exporting as widescreen

Hi people,
Please help me if you can!
I've been editing a video in FCP, it was shot in 16:9 and I've been editing in 16:9. The movie looks great when I view it in FCP.
However, when I export and select 'DV PAL 48 KHz Animorphic' the finished .MOV isn't widescreen, it's stretched and doesn't look right.
Can anybody suggest any ideas?
THANK YOU

You can use "export using quicktime conversion". Under video, select PAL DV. Then under size select custom and force the size to be 854 x 480. That will make your final .mov file display as 16x9.
or...
if you have quicktime pro you can take the original clip you exported earlier and open it, hit command J, then under the video track you will see controls on how to display your video. Make the ratio equal to 16:9 and hit save.

Video Is In Widescreen Format -- HELP!!

Yesterday, I offered to convert a digital videotape of an Easter play into a DVD. That was before I found out the guy who recorded the play did so in widescreen format.
I currently have iMovie 4 on my iMac. When I imported it, the video looks very stretched (which I thought would happen). Is there any way iMovie 4 can import a widescreen video, or is it time to get iMovie5 (or 6) for something like this??
Please help ... Thanxx!!
Ryan

It's time to get iLife '06 (which includes widescreen capable versions of iMovie and iDVD).

IDVD virgin needs help! Widescreen ration aspect problems

Hi,
I created QT movies from FCPx all as widescreen, when I play the QT movies they are widescreen but then when I create a iDVD, the ration changes to standard (even though it is set in iDVD to wide). When I am iDVD and look at the preview there is gray around the edges and it looks standard ration. What have I done wrong?? I found this advice:
f a gray border appears in the iDVD windo
When you drag the iDVD window to make it larger, the menu in the iDVD window always maintains the correct aspect ratio of your project (4:3 for standard video and 16:9 for widescreen). The extra space around your menu appears as a gray border.
To return the iDVD window to normal size:
Choose Window > Actual Size.
You can also drag the window, reducing its size until the gray borders disappear.
But I cannot work out how to do this, I have clicked on Actual size etc but nothing seems to change.... I'm so crap at this, I really need help! thanks!

With the QT files I made straight from FCPx it says, 195.8mb 720 x 576. Then I used 'prism' and converted all the chapters and now they say 11.3mb 1024 x 576. I put them back into iDVD and it solved the widescreen problem. When I view the converted files in iDVD now they are widescreen and work. HOWEVER, I seem to have a new problem! Now there are 2 things that happen.
1. Everything is widescreen but when I click on the chapters to view the video's, it automatically stops being full screen and goes down to a smaller screen and then you need to click 'full screen' for it to go back, this only happens on a few of them.
2. Some parts of the DVD don't work, the footage goes all funny like ghosts and it jumps around and doesn't play nicely, then all of a sudden it works for a bit, then back to not working.
I tried using 2 different themes and the same thing happened. Any thoughts?

Help with widescreen output on SD

I'm finishing up a wedding and just wanted to make sure I understand this correctly.
If I want a film that was filmed in Widescreen (16:9), edited in widescreen, how do I use compressor to make sure this fillm is playable on both 4:3 and widescreen TVS?
1) Film in widescreen
2) Edit in widescreen
3) Send to compressor with what options?
4) In DVD Pro, make sure what options are checked?
This would be considered anamorphic, correct (both playable in widescreen and 4:3 formats)?
I would like for it to automatically display the black bars for SD TVs, and not for regular widescreen TVs.
Thanks a ton in advanced guys!

3) Send to compressor with what options?
Export your timeline as QuickTime Movie current settings (self contained is my favorite flavor, if you have space). That gives you a same quality movie that your timeline to use in Compressor from outside FCP.
Use any "DVD: .... 16:9" Compressor presets, depending on your footage lenght and envode your audio to Dolby 2.0 (AC3).
In DVDSP, set your 16:9 tracks/menus with Display Mode : 16:9 Letteerbox (never use Pan&Scan at least your movie has that information).
That way your DVD will play automatically full screen in widescreen TVs and letterboxed in 4:3 sets.
Remember that some weird TV & DVD player settings made by the user can override that automatic playback, but that's something you cannot take control of.
Hope it help!
Alberto

Standard widescreen sequence settings - PLEASE HELP!

Hi,
I've been trying for weeks to figure out the proper sequence settings / easy setup settings for videos that will ulitimately end up as STANDARD 16x9 footage.
Is there a direct 16 x 9 standard widescreen setting?
What I've been trying to do is to make a standard widescreen picture video slideshow that will end up being burned via idvd. But for the life of me I cant figure it out?!?!?
PLEASE HELP! Your assistance will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!!!
PS
I do have Fianl Cut Studio Pro 2 studio.

"Standard" 16:9 is anamorphic.
Import your footage into FCP using a 16:9 preset, edit it and export it using 'current settings'.
Open up DVD Studio Pro and import the footage making sure to check the box that tells the program the material is 16:9.
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