Widescreen/Standard 4:3

I burnt a project that is being played on a mini dvd player. My problem is images of people appear fatter then they actually are, it's kind of flattening the image I guess I can say?
Is this a setting that should be changed with Widescreen and Standard 4:3? What should it be?
Thanks,
Damien

It sounds like there could be a menu setting change needed in your DVD player to switch from 16:9 to 4:3

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Widescreen/Standard Problems

Hello -
I have created a movie that I exported into iDVD. It needs to show perfectly and in whole as a standard movie, but the sides are being cut out. I'm using an old iDVD theme that is not widescreen, exporting as a Quicktime movie (not conversion). Essentially, I do NOT want widescreen at all.
I've experimented with different Easy Setups and have spent hours trying to solve this problem with no success. Can you please help?

I've never had this problem with movies I've created before. Now I have words and borders cut out. I am previewing on a regular TV and it's messed up. Maybe I should just be sure to put text near the center of the screen and delete the borders altogether? That can't be right.....

Why isn't my high definition video converting to standard definition?

What I'm describing here, I've successfully accomplished many, many times using Premiere Pro CS5 and now Premiere Pro CS6. Now, for the first time ever, it's not working and I'm completely baffled. (This is a high-end Windows 7 64-Bit machine with 16GB RAM running Premiere Pro CS6.)
Here's a basic summary of my workflow. Nothing out of the ordinary here.
1. I shoot my video using a high definition camcorder (the same one I've been working with for the past year or two.
2. I import my high definition video into a 1920x1080 sequence in Premiere Pro CS6.
3. I edit my sequence until I'm happy.
4. I enter and name my Encore chapter markers in the sequence.
5. I create my Encore project and import the sequence as a timeline and set up my menus and such.
6. I build my Encore project, first into a standard definition DVD image file (so I can later burn SD-DVDs) and then build it again into a high definition Blu-ray image file (so I can later burn Blu-rays).
The Blu-ray burn is turning out just fine.
But the video in the DVD burn is all black. I can jump around from chapter to chapter and I can hear the sound, but the video doesn't show up!
I tried this a couple times thinking that maybe Encore just messed up the SD-DVD creation process but I got the same result each time. When I preview the project in Encore, it all looks just right.
So I figured, okay, something's not working when I import the sequence.
I went back to Premiere Pro thinking I'd just export my 1920x1080 sequence into a widescreen standard definition AVI and create a new sequence just for the standard definition DVD.
The exported AVI is black as well!!
I don't get it. Why on earth won't my high definition video convert properly to standard definition?
The high definition sequence looks completely normal in Premiere Pro. What could I possibly be overlooking??
One final note. Just as another test, I copied and pasted the sequence in Premier Pro, truncated it to a couple minutes (the full sequence is 90 minutes long), and exported to a widescreen AVI again.
It just finished, I tried playing it back in Windows, and it, too, is all black, sound but no video.
Like I said, this is nothing new for me. I've done it countless times with other projects. I could really use some assistance with this one.

So I exported my completed high definition sequence to an MP4 and re-imported back into Premiere Pro. Right-clicked it and created a sequence from the clip. Then I imported my chapters from the old sequence into the new one.
I returned to Encore, modified my project to work off the newly created sequence (what a pain having to recreate all the scene links) and voila, it had no trouble making a DVD this time.
So I guess I'll get out of the bad habit of my old routine and create a sequence the "right" way from now on. Funny how we get used to doing something one way and stop thinking outside the box after a while.
Jim, I don't see how that's necessary. As long as I create an Encore project based on a good high definition sequence, I have never had to do anything other than have Encore build a standard definition DVD based on the high definition sequences. It has always done the conversion for me and produced really good DVDs. Once I create a DVD image that I'm satisfied with, I simply have Encore build a Blu-ray image using the exact same project, and that works perfectly as well. I suppose I may be missing something here but it all works and works well, so I don't see a reason to create two projects when one works well.
On a separate note, is it just me or doesn't everybody think it's high time that Adobe offer a feature to import markers from one sequence into another. I can do it automatically but I have to use a macro that I created separate and apart from Premiere Pro. For that matter, I think Encore should also offer a feature to remap all scene links to a new sequence instead of forcing me to fix them one by one myself.
Anyway, thanks to all of you for pointing me in the right direction!

Widescreen aspect ratio help

I'm reading this site:
http://www.shapeofdays.com/2005/05/a_demonstration.html
and i read that: "A widescreen standard-definition TV picture is 850 pixels across by 480 pixels down."
questions:
1) so what is the aspect ratio if i change the "standard-defintion" to read HD or Hi-Definition?
2) preface: i created a Widescreen project using iMovie HD 5.0.2 that was shot at 16:9. i created a DVD from the iMovie project and it is 16:9. i "shared" my finished project and selected Full at the first prompts and got a dialogue saying something about the full quality of my project being saved; it produced a QT .dv file of the size of my project (about 3 gb) which is correct, afaik.
question: why is my exported [at] Full dv quality QT .dv file only 720 x 480? instead of 850 x 480?
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while i'm asking questions: i'm about to export that .dv file to H.264, however i wish to reduce the view size by half --for a lower size-- how do i correctly assign a new properly reduced 50% size so that my aspect ratio is preserved only smaller by half?
thanks.

A widescreen standard-definition TV picture is 850 pixels across by 480 pixels down
A standard NTSC picture is 640 x 480
BUT, DV format saves video in a 720x480 ratio. DV pixels are not square, however. When shooting standard TV, the pixels are higher than they are wide and appear 640x480. When shooting widescreen, the pixels are wider than they are tall, thus giving a 16x9 (850x480) appearance.
As to your specific question about H.264, try exporting to a custom size of 425 by 240.

How Can I set QT to open ALL files in Full Screen Automatically?

Am I missing something obvious here, or is this a major option missing in preferences of QT? I know that you can set this option for EACH movie in the Presentation tab in the movie's Properties, but I have 1000's of clips on my computer. I just want EVERY movie to automatically open up in full screen mode. This seems like it should be an obvious universal option for QT rather than handled individually for each file (with the option to over ride it per file if you wish for some reason).
Plus setting the option per file is not even practical, because in order to save that option in a file that is not .mov file QT wants to convert it to .mov and save copy of the file...

I am still pretty sure, say 95%, (do not recall perfectly - to many things on my mind... hihi) that the settings in Quicktime in the Preferences DID work before.
QT Player "Preference" settings only control how the content is displayed in the "Full Screen" mode -- not how it is activated. Pop-up options include:
1) Half Size,
2) Actual Size,
3) Double Size,
4) Fit to Screen,
5) Fill Screen,
6) Panoramic, or
7) Current Size
The options are available individually for "widescreen", "standard", or "other" aspect movie formats. The only other method of I can think of using the QT Player to automatically open in the the "Full Screen" presentation mode would be using a QTL file linked to your original source file but it setting the "Full Screen" option is "boring" for you, then creating QTL files would be even more so.

4.3 and 16.9

Why is it when Yesterday (12) on Freview Transmit via the BT vision box it shows in 4.3 and on my Samsung freeview telly and Panasonic I get a16.9 perfect screen fit seems silly to me maybe they will when they "sort" out subtitles on demand this will be next on their list or do I wait and whistle in the wind ?

oldtech59 wrote:
Why is it when Yesterday (12) on Freview Transmit via the BT vision box it shows in 4.3 and on my Samsung freeview telly and Panasonic I get a16.9 perfect screen fit seems silly to me maybe they will when they "sort" out subtitles on demand this will be next on their list or do I wait and whistle in the wind ?
Hi,
No, unfortunately. Subtitles are not available for On Demand content.
In regard to your picture, you need to set your Vision box to display in 16:9 Widescreen Standard Definition mode.
Press BT Vision>Settings>TV Settings>Screen Aspect Ratio, Then save it.
Cheers.
Rank - Mostly Harmless.

Copy and Paste results in decreased video quality

I'm working on a project that was shot with two cameras. The footage from one is in HDV 1080i60, the other footage is in 1080p24. In the Bin, the footage was in quality HD appearance, and looked the same when I put it in the sequence.
I then made a second sequence and copied + pasted each individual clip from the first sequence into the second. After rendering, the footage looked like it was at widescreen standard definition. Lots of interlacing, not very smooth motion, a little blurry, etc.
I do NOT want to have to re-edit this project from scratch (the original footage is still crisp) and need to know if there is a quick fix to this HD to Standard screwup. It's frustrating that something like copying and pasting to another sequence should cause this big of a problem.
I have tried going into Sequence>Settings in the menu, where I changed the Compressor to HDV 1080i60, but this only made the frame rate really choppy, even after rendering.

On the second sequence open the sequence settings (Command 0)
There in the bottom left click on Load sequence preset.
Choose HDV1080i60.
OK.
If the video still looks distorted then do the following:
Make a duplicate of the sequence as backup.
Select all in the timeline. Command Option V to remove attributes.
In the pop up select: Basic Motion and Distort.
OK
Is it solved?
Rienk

Display Issues in Elements

Hey all,
I recently bought an HP all in one Touch as well as Adobe elements 8.
My computer resolution is set at 1920x1080.
I shoot in 16:9 widescreen standard defintion.
I also edit stills and video in the same aspect ratio.
Whenever I create graphic/ or edit video the programs responds
Photoshop:The fire was created to be viewed on a television screen, but will appear compressed on your computer monitor. For optimal editing, it is recommended that you use a video monitor to preview and edit this image.
Premiere: Display performance will be poor due to incorrectly operating graphics card or driver! (the details button also is not clickable in the dialouge box.)
I removed and reinstalled my graphic cards several times. So my thought is I need to have some sort of preview/ program set up. I don't know whether to use another monitor or buy a television or If I even am thinking along the right lines.
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Hi Sharad,
Thank you for your reply.
Since my initial posting here, I've attempted a few more installations. Each time a file from /Library/Application Support/Adobe/ssc/ would appear with the same error DF024, and it was always an alias. So each time I would replace the old alias with a new manually created alias pointing to the same original as the old alias. Sure enough, when I relaunched the installer, error DF024 with the old alias no longer appeared, but a new error DF042 with another alias from the same directory did appear. Then I manually replaced all aliases found in the /Library/Application Support/Adobe/ssc/ directory with new ones I created.
Upon rebooting and relaunching the installer program, the program did not stop at around 12% as consistently it did up until now. Instead, it progressed to 80% before it stopped and reported a huge number of new errors. Most of them pertain to the inability to roll back the installation it had attempted. No files from /Library/Application Support/Adobe/ssc/ appeared in the new log report.
To gain a better understanding of the logs, I downloaded AdobeSupportAdvisor and tried using it, but it referred me to online solutions that weren't relevant to my situation (i.e., one mentions Photoshop CS4 and I've never installed CS4).
I also tried following the articles from the Adobe knowledgebase:
cspid_84451: Troubleshoot with install logs | CS5, CS5.5, CS6
which is fine if you only have a few errors, and
cspid_83481: Installation, launch log errors | CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CCM
which doesn't list error DF024.
At this point I've decided to not not make anymore attempts without some expert guidance.
The log file seem too large to post here. If you would like review the log, I can perhaps post it on www.pastebin.com unless you can suggest a better way. Please let me know.

How can I set the HDMI output to 1366x768?

1024x768 is an option from the ATV to the HDMI Port.
But my TV is 16:9 and has the resolution of 1366x768 when I plug a computer into the HDMI port.
If 1366x768 is not currently possible from the ATV, could apple be so kind as to add it,
thanks,
Jonathan

slenpree wrote:
as previously stated 1366x768 is the resolution of the TV and has not been pulled out of a hat.
1366 x 768 is the number of pixels in the screen, it remains to be seen whether it's a resolution the TV will accept, but it likely will since it appears to accept 768 lines of resolution.
However, the Apple TV outputs several widescreen standards for HD and ED, it also supports some graphics display resolutions, presumably for older non-wide screen projectors. The problem with graphic display resolutions is that there are many of them including non-standard resolutions.
The Apple TV supports Full HD, HD and ED, it also supports VGA, SVGA and XGA, your TV has a pixel array that would fall into a classification known as WXGA which is non-standard to begin with but also includes 4 other resolutions which are also non-standard, WXGA is primarily a 16:10 aspect ration before a 19:9 one, so whilst you may not like it, the pixel array used by your TV has been pulled from a hat in terms of standard resolutions.
AC mentioned something above which I'd like to expand on:
Panels will always give sharper pictures when displaying output at native resolution, which is what you are trying to achieve.
This is essentially correct but only part of the wider picture so far as your TV is concerned, (it isn't actually what you are trying to acheive). Content doesn't (widely) exist at 768p. Generally speaking you will only have content at 480p, 576p, 720p or 1080p, so something needs to convert this to 768 lines of resolution for your TV.
There are two devices in the chain that can perform scaling, the TV and the Apple TV. In different scenarios this can lead to one or the other device doing the scaling or in some cases both. When setting up a system, one should note the capabilities of each device and try several options (if they are available) to get best results according to which device is best at scaling.
However given your observations, it is obvious that the Apple TV is much better at scaling than your TV, which given the pixel array on your TV is a little absurd, since very few devices (DVD players etc) will offer 768 lines of resolution and your TV is always likely to be doing some scaling.
Whilst you may not like the terminology of being pulled from a hat, your TV's pixel array is a non-standard size. There are as mentioned previously many non-standard sizes, to make them all available on the Apple TV just because some TV's perform inadequately when scaling isn't realistic.

How can I set music to occur every hour in Itunes?

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I am still pretty sure, say 95%, (do not recall perfectly - to many things on my mind... hihi) that the settings in Quicktime in the Preferences DID work before.
QT Player "Preference" settings only control how the content is displayed in the "Full Screen" mode -- not how it is activated. Pop-up options include:
1) Half Size,
2) Actual Size,
3) Double Size,
4) Fit to Screen,
5) Fill Screen,
6) Panoramic, or
7) Current Size
The options are available individually for "widescreen", "standard", or "other" aspect movie formats. The only other method of I can think of using the QT Player to automatically open in the the "Full Screen" presentation mode would be using a QTL file linked to your original source file but it setting the "Full Screen" option is "boring" for you, then creating QTL files would be even more so.

Squashed Video

I'm brand new to iMovie. The reason being is that, believe it or not, i've only just got my first Video Camera!! Never really had a need for one until now.
Anyway, the problem i'm having is regarding the video format. My Camera is recording in 16:9, but when I pull this into iMovie, it seem to 'squash' it up. The best way a can describe it is when you have a movie thats in letterbox mode and you force it into full screen, the image looks stretched vertically.
I'm sure that its something simple with me beeing a noob, but can anyone tell me how to stop that happening?
Thanks!
Dean

I can confirm this problem too, and I've done a bit of experimenting, too. I've also tried using Windows Live Movie Maker and it's the same issue on the Windows side, too. Compared to a JVC Everio (which records to a hard drive using mpeg2), the Everio works perfectly: widescreen/standard--both are interpreted correctly by both iMovie and WLMM.
It appears to be an issue with the camcorder not handling aspect ratio properly.
http://gdgt.com/samsung/sc-mx20/review/1v9/
Looks like your only choice is to pretty much re-encode the video before you load it into iMovie. MPEG Streamclip is recommended.

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Hello everyone. Making a wedding slideshow of photos with pixels set to 1000 x 750 with elements 9. Which project setting should I choose? there is so many from the new video camera format, to HD Cameras, flip etc.. Widescreen, Standard, too many to choose but nothing for straight pictures.
output will be computer to LCD screen, also will burn copies for viewing on LCD widescreen TVs via DVD. Any direction would be appreciated and which setting to choose. I am at a loss.
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I would choose the NTSC (or PAL, if you live in PAL-land) DV Widescreen, based on that target DVD-Video.
With Still Images only, one can then let the output determine the Project.
One additional option, but the 1000 x 750 preculdes that, would be to do an HD Project, as per output to BD. Then, Export/Share that Project as a DV-AVI and Import that into a DV Widescreen Project for the DVD-Video. One would still have the BD, HD Project, should they ever wish to produce a BD.
Now, are the Still Images originally from larger files, say 4000 x 3000? If they are, I would probably go with that HD Project, re-Scale the Stills to 1920 x 1080, or very similar, and work with those. As there ARE more pixels, one consideration would be whether there are too many of the Stills for the particular computer to handle.
I always try to work with the highest def material, that I can, and then down-rez upon Export (with but a few exceptions).
To summarize, either the HD Project (with re-Scaled Stills), and then Exported/Imported into a DV Project for the DVD-Video, or just starting the DV Widescreen, and going straight to DVD-Video would be fine.
Good luck,
Hunt

When exporting a 16:9 project using Qk Conversion, it says file is too big?

I just bought FCE HD, but I have been using regular express since early 2004. I want to send my 16:9 widescreen standard def. video from FCE HD to iMovie HD. The only way for iMovie to accept a widescreen video without pillarboxing it is through a DV stream file. I have done this numerous times with the older version without a problem, but now when I export my hour long video, in the middle of exporting using quicktime conversion, it says to file is too big. I have over 100 GB left of harddrive space, so why does it says it's too big? I have used the new Title program that came with the HD upgrade which offers HD text. On my DV-Widescreen NTSC project, I used HD text graphics and rendered them and they played fine, but when I try to export the text with the video, it fails. Could the HD graphics be the culprit, or is it something else entirely?

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Using widescreen and standard screen in one project.

I am making a film and just found out that about a quarter of the footage was taken in widescreen while the rest in standard. I would prefer to keep all of the footage in standard. Any ideas on how best to adjust the widescreen footage without distorting its quality?
Thanks.

If the widescreen footage was shot in standard definition eg on a DV camera set to "widescreen" mode then you will unfortunately lose a little quality. This can't be avoided as you need to blow out the letterbox and crop some of the image to get it back to 4:3. Just drop the widescreen footage into your 4:3 timeline, double click the clip (in the timeline) to load it into the Viewer window, then switch to the Motion tab and set the Scale value to 134%. That will produce whats called a 4:3 Center Cut version of you widescreen clip. For best results you;ll probably want to reframe each of these clips to esure none of the important action is lost through cropping.
If the widescreen footage was shot in high definition eg on an HDV camera, then there should be quality hit perceivable in the SD project (because the HD source already has more than enough pixels to compensate for the rescale ). Just drop the 16:9 footage into the 4:3 timeline as before, but this time increase the Scale to 67% and reframe as needed.

Can I convert an iMovie Standard project to widescreen?

I created a project using iMovie HD6 and didn't realize that it was set to Standard DV video format. It is complete but I need it to be widescreen format. My intention is to use iDVD to burn it. Am I stuck or is there anyway to change video format at this point? Can I import the saved project into a NEW iMovie project set for widescreen? Anything?

Was the original footage shot in 16:9 widescreen, but imported into a 4:3 DV project instead of a 16:9 DV Widescreen project?
If that is the case you have two choices:
import the footage again into a new project set as DV Widescreen, or
Change the project to 16:9 widescreen after passing it on to iDVD, but before burning it to a DVD:
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
Open iDVD. Give the project a name, and save it as Widescreen. 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.

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