Comments on: Digital video: iDVD and widescreen movies http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fidvd-and-widescreen-movies%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+widescreen+movies bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:54:01 +0000 By: Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fidvd-and-widescreen-movies%2F%23comment-6&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+widescreen+movies#comment-6 Bruce Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:50:32 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2003/10/03/digital-video-idvd-and-widescreen-movies/#comment-6 In the process of trying your app Matthew something funny happened. Since the last time I made a widescreen DVD I've upgraded to Panther, reinstalled Final Cut Express, and updated to QuickTime 6.5 Pro + the new version of the MPEG2 Component. When I hooked up my camcorder and imported widescreen footage, it showed under <i>Properties</i>: <i>Pixel Aspect Ratio</i> "PAL - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCIR_601">CCIR 601</a>", above a checked box "Anamorphic 16:9". When I dragged this clip into the timeline and exported it as a FCE movie and opened it in QuickTime Player, it appeared to be letter-boxed. A test DVD-RW created from this movie played letterboxed on the Mac and PC (inside a 4:3 window), and auto-expanded to widescreen on my 16:9 telly <i>without further modification</i>. When I tried to repeat the process (re-capturing the same footage), FCE exported anamorphic footage again! Any ideas what happened?<br /><br />A point of clarification: you <i>can</i> edit 16:9 footage using iMovie if all you're doing is trimming and re-arranging clips. Problems may arise when you try to add titles, effects etc which are 4:3 and overlay these on anamorphic footage. If you then burn your movie using iDVD the disc will play back as a "squashed" picture; if you were to edit the MPEG headers to make a widescreen version, the titles etc will appear stretched. Choosing your fonts carefully make overcome this. In the process of trying your app Matthew something funny happened. Since the last time I made a widescreen DVD I've upgraded to Panther, reinstalled Final Cut Express, and updated to QuickTime 6.5 Pro + the new version of the MPEG2 Component. When I hooked up my camcorder and imported widescreen footage, it showed under Properties: Pixel Aspect Ratio "PAL - CCIR 601", above a checked box "Anamorphic 16:9". When I dragged this clip into the timeline and exported it as a FCE movie and opened it in QuickTime Player, it appeared to be letter-boxed. A test DVD-RW created from this movie played letterboxed on the Mac and PC (inside a 4:3 window), and auto-expanded to widescreen on my 16:9 telly without further modification. When I tried to repeat the process (re-capturing the same footage), FCE exported anamorphic footage again! Any ideas what happened?

A point of clarification: you can edit 16:9 footage using iMovie if all you're doing is trimming and re-arranging clips. Problems may arise when you try to add titles, effects etc which are 4:3 and overlay these on anamorphic footage. If you then burn your movie using iDVD the disc will play back as a "squashed" picture; if you were to edit the MPEG headers to make a widescreen version, the titles etc will appear stretched. Choosing your fonts carefully make overcome this.

]]> By: Matthew Walker http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fidvd-and-widescreen-movies%2F%23comment-4&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+widescreen+movies#comment-4 Matthew Walker Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2003/10/03/digital-video-idvd-and-widescreen-movies/#comment-4 Bruce, I can't really suggest anything, I've never used Final Cut Express. I didn't realise it even supported 16:9 footage natively. In regards to 16:9 support in iMovie, that's exactly what I do, you do need to be careful in your font choices for titles etc. Bruce, I can't really suggest anything, I've never used Final Cut Express. I didn't realise it even supported 16:9 footage natively. In regards to 16:9 support in iMovie, that's exactly what I do, you do need to be careful in your font choices for titles etc.

]]> By: Matthew Walker http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fidvd-and-widescreen-movies%2F%23comment-5&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+widescreen+movies#comment-5 Matthew Walker Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2003/10/03/digital-video-idvd-and-widescreen-movies/#comment-5 I've written a perl script which is wrapped in a little Mac OS X app called <a href="http://matthew.walker.wattle.id.au/software/mac/drop16x9">Drop16x9</a> to automate this process so you don't have to fiddle about it in HexEdit, you just drop the encoded iDVD project onto it. Also I've found that I can shoot in 16:9 with my Canon MVX1i and edit the resulting video in iMovie fine. I've written a perl script which is wrapped in a little Mac OS X app called Drop16x9 to automate this process so you don't have to fiddle about it in HexEdit, you just drop the encoded iDVD project onto it. Also I've found that I can shoot in 16:9 with my Canon MVX1i and edit the resulting video in iMovie fine.

]]> By: db http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2003%2F10%2F03%2Fidvd-and-widescreen-movies%2F%23comment-7&seed_title=Digital+video%3A+iDVD+and+widescreen+movies#comment-7 db Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2003/10/03/digital-video-idvd-and-widescreen-movies/#comment-7 very very helpful site. it finally answered the question i've been crawling around the net asking. thanks. very very helpful site. it finally answered the question i've been crawling around the net asking. thanks.

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