Widescreen Preview

I have a 4:3 aspect ratio project from Final Cut Pro 6.5... I've been exporting as a Quicktime movie for years from FCP......So I know how to do it and have done it 100's of times.
Today - I went to burn it to IDVD and the movie "previews" in widescreen even though it is not a widescreen template or movie. It says "Widescreen Preview" in green at bottom right of screen during preview.
In Quicktime - the movie plays as it should 4:3.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your help - it turns out that I opened the .mov in quicktime and resaved it. That seemed to take away the "wide screen" scenario. My guess is the my FCP project had a combo of Wide Screen and Standard Screen video in it. Even though I exported the whole project as a standard screen movie - IDVD picked up on the widescreen stuff. Anyway - that's how I solved the problem.

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4:3 aspect woes. Curse that "widescreen preview"!!

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Hi there.
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Idvd plays some movie clips in a widescreen preview

I can't figure out how to keep some clips from going into widescreen preview. They are marked to play in 4:3 mode. Of the 15 clips four play in widescreen preview in the preview mode. Help!

Whenever this happens to me it's usually because I didn't make the proper adjustment on my TV/LCD so it plays back in 4:3 as opposed to WS/ 16:9. But if that's not the case in your own situation then try the second download in the following link and feel free to post back:
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html

Widescreen preview mode, how to disable?

hello everyone
i already have a project that i made using the templates in idvd 08,my project was shot in 16x9 anamorphic and then i put it on a 4x3 sequence so it will letterbox on normal 4x3 televisions, when i hit the preview button and played my footage it showed my project was squashed, and below was a green caption 'widescreen preview'.
anyone know how to disable this?because i have done lots of projects in this same workflow(16x9 to 4x3 sequence) but showed to be fine when i preview it on idvd (a letterboxed footage in a 4x3 aspect). this is the first time i encountered this and i cant seem to find how to disable the 'widescreen preview'
the aspect ratio of my dvd template is 4x3
i hope someone could help me, thank you very much
Message was edited by: jay-dude

Found a post in another forum from JTR210, it worked for me...
Quoting...
I found a stupid workaround where you download a program called Inverse-Anamorphicizer
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
You drop the 4:3 movie you are using into Inverse-Anamorphicizer and it creates a reference movie that you drag into iDVD. After using this process the DVD burned fine and I tested it on 3 different machines to confirm that everything was at a 4:3 ratio.
The menu, movies and slideshow of the DVD were all coming up widescreen but everything works like it should now. Does anyone know a better method than this or is quicktime and iDVD just screwed up until they update it?
End Quote...
Hope this helps.

When I try to use iDVD to create a disk of my 4:3 aspect movie, the themes show a widescreen preview. I want the aspect to remain 4:3! Help please.

When I try to use iDVD to create a disk of my 4:3 aspect Quicktime movie (made on Final Cut Pro), the iDVD seems to change its aspect to 16:9, because in the corner of the theme screen, I see "Widescreen preview". Does this mean that if I complete and save my project and burn it to disk that the aspect will also be 16:9? I do not want the circles to look like ovals!

BTW
Did You turn on TV-Safe area. Pict in Swedish but I guess that You figure it out.
to be like this
I do - and keep this ON till Save as a DiskImage is done. (I always do one first to see that all is right - before burning the DVD - it saves so many)
Yours Bengt W

"Widescreen Preview" Mysteriously Appeared On 2 Of The 9 Videos.

I have just made 9 short slideshow videos in Final Cut Express, exported them to QuickTime Movie (NOT self-contained) and dragged them into a 4:3 PAL iDVD project.
When burned to DVD and played on my 16:9 HDTV, 2 of the videos were stretched even though the TV was set to 4:3.
On playing the project in iDVD, both the dodgy videos are stretched and have the statement "Widescreen Preview" in green.
All the videos were dealt with identically.
Can anyone suggest how this has happened?
Normally I preview in iDVD before burning but the process is so routine that I didn't on this occasion!

I too have just begun having this prob but from Final Cut Pro. Had 9 4:3 clips dragged to iDVD...1st 8 played well in testing but 9th showed "widescreen preview". All 9 were produced in the same doc with 9 diff 4:3 sequences. I had to go back and rebuild the entire sequence a clip at a time until i found if a clip was corrupt. It ended up the music track (wedding video) was the last element i added and that made it "widescreen preview". To bring the audio into FCP originally, I dragged from the CD to copy it to the hard drive...then imported into music folder in FCP. So, I dumped that music file and imported the file from the CD into iTunes. I duplicated that mp3 file and then imported it into the FCP music folder and it worked!
Thought I had solved the prob only to find in checking an older iDVD project another "widescreen preview"!!!
I went ahead and burnt the DVD when it showed "widescreen" and sure enough, it cropped the edges of the video on a 4:3 screen. Even when I played it on a 16:9 screen it spread out to conform to screen but still had edges cropped.
ANYONE HELP!!

Widescreen preview issues

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Thank you for your suggestion. I will try what you said. For the record the TV aspect and DVD player are both set at 4.3. What I am experiencing is a problem with the iDVD preview. If it presents as "WIDESCREEN PREVIEW" then when I burn it comes out at 16.9. This happens even when all settings and preferences are 4.3. So I painstakingly took segments out of my movie slideshow ( made in Photo to Movie ) and sent to iDVD, as this process is shorter than sending the whole movie...2 to 3 hrs. Each section included an audio track which I ran at AIFF and AAC just to be sure. All the segments converted to a 4.3 preview, there was only one that didn't so i changed the audio to AAC and it was fine. So I thought good that was the problem and made the movie slideshow complete once more, but it still previewed as widescreen. I have been using P2M for months now with no problems up to now , although i must admit did have several issues when using iPhoto slideshow, not good at all! Thats why I purchased the P2M software. Sorry to ramble on but I feel at a complete loss with all this.
Just one thing, will this process you gave me enable me to eventually burn a DVD to view at 4.3 aspect on the TV? Thanks again for your time.

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I've created a project in FCE in standard format. I import it to iDVD into a Standard format project. But my preview and my DVDs are widescreen. It doesn't always do it. It seems random. Is it a bug? Or something I can adjust somewhere?
Also, I created a widescreen project in FCE and imported it to iDVD in a widescreen project. But it only shows as standard view. What the ****?!

Hi Dylan
Welcome to apple discussions. Did you follow these steps?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1611
You can open a clip in QT Player, hit Cmd J, and adjust the playback size. Should play fine but if not then try another approach like:
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
Hope this helps but if not just come on back. Good luck.

Why did our standard format Quicktime movie switch to widescreen preview in iDVD?

We created wedding videos on Final Cut Express 2 and converted them to Quicktime movies. When you play the videos in Quicktime, they show up in standard format (not widescreen). When we put the movies into iDVD 7.1.2, one of the movies shows up as widescreen and the other stays in standard format. We want them in standard format (which is how they were shot).
Any suggestions?

Hi
When You make a brand new iDVD project - Select DV - not Widescreen-DV
In iDVD top menu Project/Project info - Here too - You may be must select 4x3 size.
And how You go from FinalCut to iDVD matters - My notes on this.
FCE/P to iDVD
Several things
• How to go from FCE/P to iDVD
• Free space on Start-up hard disk
• Encoding
• Brand and type of DVDs used
• Burn speed set
• iDVD BUG
• Chapters
How to go from FCE/P to iDVD I do
• Disable Screen and Energy saver
• IMPORTANT --> FIRST in FinalCut - Mix Down Audio under Sequence Menu / Render Only / Mix-down
• Export out as a QuickTime .mov file
• Select with Mark - Chapter Mark
• Not as Self-Contained (not important but saves time and space)
• NO QUICKTIME CONVERSION (IMPORTANT)
This QT.mov file I import into iDVD from within iDVD.
Free space on Start-up hard disk
I set a minimum of 25GB (for Mac OS and iDVDs temp files)
Encoding
• I use Pro Quality encoding
Brand and type of DVDs used (matters)
• I use Verbatim
• I use DVD-R
Burn speed set
• I set down this to x4 (or x1)
iDVD BUG
• One can not go back to movie-project for any alterations and then go back to
the iDVD project. It will notice and ask You to either Up-date or Cancel. Neither
of them will work.
Medicine - Start a brand new iDVD project.
Use of Chapters
• I only use a to z and 0 to 9 in naming them. NO other symbol/letter !
• NO Chapter-mark at very beginning - iDVD NEEDS TO set this by it self
• No Chapter marks in or within two seconds from a transition
(Way around this last one - Export movie as QT full quality and NO Chapter marks
Import this into a new Movie-project and now You are free to set C-Ms where You want
them except at very beginning - still)
Material used to build movie
• video - I use streamingDV (or convert all other to this e.g. .mp4, .avi, .wmv etc)
• audio - I use .aiff 16-bit 48kHz or from Audio-CD (44.1kHz) - no .mp3 or direct from iTunes
• photos - I use .jpg - no .bmp etc
Also do when problems occures
• Trash iDVD pref. file and
• run Repair Permissions - and have a re-try.
from post ??
May not be relevant, but I had the same problem with iDVD, where burned DVDs showed a green screen. It was cured by quitting Quicksilver and Quickeys as well as disabling sleep and screen-saving
Yours Bengt W

Dvd won't play widescreen

Using iDVD 6.03. I've made a widescreen project and burned the DVD, but it doesn't play in widescreen format on my widescreen TV...neither of them. It plays standard (4:3 format).
What am I doing wrong?

Any reason not to update to 10.4.11?
The fdollowing is much easier than it looks!
HOW TO MAINTAIN 16:9 ASPECT FROM IMPORT TO BURN
This is the way I do it. There is no compulsion on you to do it my way, but this works (for me). I started this method before iMovie and iDVD were upgraded to 6.0.3, and because not all elements of the various iDVD themes (particularly the pre-iDVD 6 ones) are consistent in keeping to 16:9 throughout the process.
The widescreen preview works just fine when you check your finished project within iDVD. The problem only happens when you either burn a project or save it to an image.
In this ‘How To’ article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2938
Apple suggest one reason why this is so:
“When you play a widescreen DVD on a standard size television, the text or buttons on a widescreen menu may approach the edge of the display, or appear cut-off.
When you are creating your DVD, be sure to keep in mind the audience who will be playing this disc. If you use a widescreen (16:9) theme and import widescreen footage for example, this will create a widescreen DVD by default. Consider whether the intended recipients of your DVD may be using a standard size TV (4:3) or a widescreen TV.
The movies you import as part of this project will likely play back letterboxed on standard television sets so that all of the content is visible. However, the DVD menu screens may be played as full screen with this configuration. As a result, some of the text or buttons in a widescreen DVD may not be visible on a standard size television.
To avoid this, turn on the options for both Show TV Safe Area and Show Standard Crop Area from the View menu when assembling your menu screens in iDVD. Make sure that all buttons, text, and other elements that you want visible for both widescreen and standard screen audiences are positioned inside the innermost area indicator.”
However, a bug in iDVD 6, particularly when working with PAL, and which has been reported to Apple, is that the sub-menus in many of the themes (the chapter settings) default to 4:3 aspect, NTSC and mpeg 1, instead of the desired 16:9 in mpeg 2 in PAL. This may be partly a leftover from iDVD 5 or even a newer ‘feature’ of iDVD 6. Here is my failsafe workaround, which sounds a lot more complicated when reading about it, that it is in practice.
Living in the UK, I use PAL (25 fps). Wherever you see a reference to PAL (25 fps) in the following you may substitute NTSC (30 fps) in the various settings mentioned (if you don’t live in Europe), the basic idea is the same. I still use this method, and take these steps, regardless of whether it is always necessary. Worst case scenario: it would have worked anyway. Best case scenario: it works perfectly where it otherwise wouldn’t!
The object of the exercise is therefore to ‘fix’ all constituent parts of the project (video, titles, theme, effects, even audio!) in the desired 16:9 aspect to avoid producing a DVD where the movie is in 16:9 and the menu is in 4:3 or where other irritating surprises lurk in your project, which you only discover after burning a coaster!
First go to http://www.mydvdedit.com/index.php?lang=english and download myDVDedit. This is shareware although the download is free. Send the guy a few dollars/euros, he deserves it. While you are there, read all about it. Now install it in your Applications Folder. You will need it later.
You have finished your iMovie project with music, transitions and so on, and saved it to you Movies Folder. Before you started the project you naturally set it to DV Widescreen.
Open iDVD. Give the project a name, and save it as Widescreen if it didn’t default to the same aspect as your iMovie project. Now import the iMovie project into iDVD, choose a theme (any theme you like, even if it prefers to stay at 4:3) and save the project. Do what you would normally do to the theme and its drop zones. Save the project.
Now save as Disk Image on your desktop. Leave it there for the moment when it has finished/appeared.
Open your Movies Folder. Create a new folder. Name it PROJECTNAME – TS FILES (where ‘projectname’ is the name of your project!). Close the folder. You can of course call it anything you like, but this aids identification.
Now double-click the disk image on your desktop. It contains two folders: AUDIO_TS (which is empty, but please pretend that it isn’t) and VIDEO_TS. Drag and drop these to the folder you created in your Movies Folder. (This takes a moment).
Click on the AUDIO_TS folder and go to Get Info in the file menu. Right down the bottom is where you have to change the permissions. Under ‘Ownership & Permissions’ change this from Read Only to Read & Write. Click the small triangle next to Details, scroll down and click on ‘Apply to enclosed items’. You will be asked for your root password. Close the get info window, and now click on the VIDEO_TS folder and do the same. Close the Projectname-TS Files folder. You have now allowed yourself to change the properties of the contents of those folders, which leads us to the next all-important step.
Open myDVDedit. Go to File and open the projectname TS Files folder. By all means stare at it shock and awe, but don’t bother finding out what it can do, except for the following:
Top left you fill see a list of files. Lower centre you have a large window. On the vertical menu to the left of that, click te middle one (VTS or VMG).
In the window at the top left, ignore ‘First Play’ (if there was anything to correct in that, myDVDedit will have done so and told you).
Click on VMG Menu en (English). Now the whole thing springs to life.
Set Coding Mode to MPEG-2 (if it isn’t already)
Set Standard to PAL (or NTSC if that is what you want)
Set Aspect to 16:9 (not any of the other options)
Now save the file.
Click on VTS Menu 1 en (English) and repeat as above.
Click on VTS Menu 2 and repeat as above.
You have now permanently ‘fixed’ the entire contents of the TS folder (the disk image) in 16:9 aspect. Close myDVDedit – you won’t need it again until the next project!
If you have Toast 7 Titanium, open it. ‘Select DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS’. Choose Select from the main Toast window and select your projectname-TS Files folder. You are now ready to burn! You can set the burn speed (2x recommended) before the burn commences. Allow Toast to verify the burn before you eject the DVD-R disk.
If you don’t have Toast 7, then I assume you can burn the projectname-TS Files folder (disk image) via Disk Utility. I say ‘assume’ only because I have never tried it that way.
Either way, you now have a DVD which will play as 16:9 widescreen on any TV set, even the old ones where you can’t ask it to letter-box.

All video encoding in widescreen format

I've been using iDVD since it first came available, and for some reason all the video the program encodes does so in the widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio. I've gone though all the setting making sure that NTSC 4:3 is selected, especially when creating a new project, but still all the video that is encoded and burned to a DVD is stretched in the widescreen aspect ratio. No matter what theme I choose new or even the old 4:3 themes, all the video is stretched to widescreen aspect ratios. Even the viewer (when I hit the play button) has a green message that says "Widescreen preview." Any ideas what is happening. I've deleted my preferences and restarted, and created new projects with new source video that is 720 x 480, all the same troubling results.

Hi, I work with David and asked him to give me the DV video he was working with in iDVD, when I ran it thru my copy of iDVD with 4:3 selected in burned the DVD correctly without changing the aspect ratio of the video and everything looked fine.
We will try trashing all of iDVD's pref files and see if that solves the problem. If that won't work we will reinstall the app.
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HOW TO MAINTAIN 16:9 ASPECT FROM IMPORT TO BURN
This is the way I do it. There is no compulsion on you to do it my way, but this works (for me). I started this method before iMovie and iDVD were upgraded to 6.0.3, and because not all elements of the various iDVD themes (particularly the pre-iDVD 6 ones) are consistent in keeping to 16:9 throughout the process.
The widescreen preview works just fine when you check your finished project within iDVD. The problem only happens when you either burn a project or save it to an image.
A bug in iDVD 6, particularly when working with PAL, and which has been reported to Apple, is that the sub-menus in many of the themes (the chapter settings) default to 4:3 aspect, NTSC and mpeg 1, instead of the desired 16:9 in mpeg 2 in PAL. This may be partly a leftover from iDVD 5 or even a newer ‘feature’ of iDVD 6. Either way, it is annoying when it happens, and we must hope Apple cure it in iDVD 7. In the meantime here is my failsafe workaround, which sounds a lot more complicated when reading about it, that it is in practise.
Living in the UK, I use PAL (25 fps). Wherever you see a reference to PAL (25 fps) in the following you may substitute NTSC (30 fps) in the various settings mentioned (if you don’t live in Europe), the basic idea is the same. I still use this method, and take these steps, regardless of whether it is always necessary. Worst case scenario: it would have worked anyway. Best case scenario: it works perfectly where it otherwise wouldn’t!
The object of the exercise is therefore to ‘fix’ all constituent parts of the project (video, titles, theme, effects, even audio!) in the desired 16:9 aspect to avoid producing a DVD where the movie is in 16:9 and the menu is in 4:3 or where other irritating surprises lurk in your project, which you only discover after burning a coaster!
First go to http://www.mydvdedit.com/index.php?lang=english and download myDVDedit. This is shareware although the download is free. Send the guy a few dollars/euros, he deserves it. While you are there, read all about it. Now install it in your Applications Folder. You will need it later.
You have finished your iMovie project with music, transitions and so on, and saved it to you Movies Folder. Before you started the project you naturally set it to DV Widescreen.
Open iDVD. Give the project a name, and save it as Widescreen if it didn’t default to the same aspect as your iMovie project. Now import the iMovie project into iDVD, choose a theme (any theme you like, even if it prefers to stay at 4:3) and save the project. Do what you would normally do to the theme and its drop zones. Save the project.
Now save as Disk Image on your desktop. Leave it there for the moment when it has finished/appeared.
Open your Movies Folder. Create a new folder. Name it PROJECTNAME – TS FILES (where ‘projectname’ is the name of your project!). Close the folder. You can of course call it anything you like, but this aids identification.
Now double-click the disk image on your desktop. It contains two folders: AUDIO_TS (which is empty, but please pretend that it isn’t) and VIDEO_TS. Drag and drop these to the folder you created in your Movies Folder. (This takes a moment).
Click on the AUDIO_TS folder and go to Get Info in the file menu. Right down the bottom is where you have to change the permissions. Under ‘Ownership & Permissions’ change this from Read Only to Read & Write. Click the small triangle next to Details, scroll down and click on ‘Apply to enclosed items’. You will be asked for your root password. Close the get info window, and now click on the VIDEO_TS folder and do the same. Close the Projectname-TS Files folder. You have now allowed yourself to change the properties of the contents of those folders, which leads us to the next all-important step.
Open myDVDedit. Go to File and open the projectname TS Files folder. By all means stare at it shock and awe, but don’t bother finding out what it can do, except for the following:
Top left you fill see a list of files. Lower centre you have a large window. On the vertical menu to the left of that, click te middle one (VTS or VMG).
In the window at the top left, ignore ‘First Play’ (if there was anything to correct in that, myDVDedit will have done so and told you).
Click on VMG Menu en (English). Now the whole thing springs to life.
Set Coding Mode to MPEG-2 (if it isn’t already)
Set Standard to PAL (or NTSC if that is what you want)
Set Aspect to 16:9 (not any of the other options)
Now save the file.
Click on VTS Menu 1 en (English) and repeat as above.
Click on VTS Menu 2 and repeat as above.
You have now permanently ‘fixed’ the entire contents of the TS folder (the disk image) in 16:9 aspect. Close myDVDedit – you won’t need it again until the next project!
If you have Toast 7 Titanium, open it. ‘Select DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS’. Choose Select from the main Toast window and select your projectname-TS Files folder. You are now ready to burn! You can set the burn speed (2x recommended) before the burn commences. Allow Toast to verify the burn before you eject the DVD-R disk.
If you don’t have Toast 7, then I assume you can burn the projectname-TS Files folder (disk image) via Disk Utility. I say ‘assume’ only because I have never tried it that way.
Either way, you now have a DVD which will play as 16:9 widescreen on any TV set, even the old ones where you can’t ask it to letter-box.

Widescreen Quick Time movie made in iPhoto

I have made a widescreen Quick time movie in iPhoto by exporting it to the desktop. It's 1500x660. Works great when played in Quick Time player on the wide screen TV from my computer. When I import it into iDVD, it shows ok in preview(with a note that says widescreen preview). When I burn it to a DVD it comes out skued and elongated. What can I do to prevent this?
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Fshippy,
I am puzzled by your statement : "you should be using iLife 06"
I recently finished a project containing:
1 iMovie 4:3
1 iMovie 16:9
90 pictures slideshow (2:3)
I used iLife 05.
I produced a DvD containing three chapters: one for each film and one for the slideshow.
The result is as follows when played on my set-top:
The DvD intro is in widescreen (I defined it that way) my TV-set switches to widescreen when the DvD starts, then the DvD menu comes up in aspectratio 4:3 (that's correct as there are no standard themes in 16:9)
when I play the films:
The 4:3 plays correctly
When I play the 16:9 film my TV-set switches automaticcaly to 16:9, this film plays correctly. When finished TV switches back to the menu 4:3
When I play the slideshow it plays without any distortion of the images.
As the originator talks "widescreen" I am not sure if he means 16:9 or HD.
Anyway, I don't experience any problems in bringing widescreen (16:9) to DvD using iDvD
Are you indeed specifiacally refering to HD or also to widescreen (16:9) ?
I did not produce HD sofar.
Ben

4:3 ratio preview?

I'm making a DVD with 4:3 ratio. Everything I see says that I'm using 4:3 ratio. However when I preview the project it shows in "widescreen preview". Where can I change it to preview in 4:3 ratio?

Check my reply in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9476773#9476773

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Thank you!

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