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Best way to make SD 16 x 9 anamorphic

Aug 13, 2012 11:26 AM

I need to make a 16x9 dvd that fillls the screen on the 16x9 monitor and Letterboxes on a 4x3 screen. Do i make a 720x480 squeezed movie and then import into encore and then right click and choose interpet footage and choose SD NTSC widescreen 1.2.1. Or is there a better way? Thanks for any tips

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  • Stan Jones
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    1. Stan Jones,
    Aug 13, 2012 11:35 AM   in reply to gjkiii
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    Make it 16:9. On the DVD player, set it for the 4:3 TV and to letterbox.

     

    In other words, the setting for this is in the DVD player.

     

    If you make it 4:3, it won't be 16:9.

     
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    2. gjkiii,
    Aug 13, 2012 1:57 PM   in reply to Stan Jones
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    Thanks Stan....So are you saying just leave it at 16:9 which for me right now is 960 x 540 and let encore just enode it normally and the dvd player will do the rest?

     
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    3. Stan Jones,
    Aug 13, 2012 2:08 PM   in reply to gjkiii
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    just leave it at ... 960 x 540 and let encore just enode it normally

    I have no idea; never worked with 960x540. And I don't know what Encore will "assume" about it.

     

    I think I would export it as MPEG2-DVD 16:9 and bring that into Encore.

     
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    4. gjkiii,
    Aug 13, 2012 5:32 PM   in reply to Stan Jones
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    Thanks Stan. If i do an mpeg 2 then i will get a separate video and audio file. I am a little concerned that the audio will be out of sync. If I have a traditional 1920x1080 movie at 25fps and I wanted to make a sd dvd (720 x 480) what would be the recommended pixel size for encore so i can  to keep a 16 x 9 frame then.

     
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  • Stan Jones
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    5. Stan Jones,
    Aug 13, 2012 6:58 PM   in reply to gjkiii
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    You can mux an mpeg2 file; but most users recommend demuxed files. 25 fps; is this PAL?

     
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    Aug 13, 2012 8:19 PM   in reply to Stan Jones
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    The source is PAL but the end result is NTSC so the project is gonna be NTSC.

     
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    7. Jeff Bellune,
    Aug 14, 2012 5:06 AM   in reply to gjkiii
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    What you are trying to do is not a trivial conversion.  There are at least 3 iterations involved:

    1. PAL to NTSC
    2. HD to SD
    3. AVI or MOV to MPEG-2 DVD

    If the conversions aren't done correctly and carefully, you'll ruin the quality of the video.  You can't do it with just Premiere Pro and Encore.  You'll need additional tools, including a lossless intermediate codec.  You'll also have to consider whether or not the source footage is interlaced and whether or not you want interlaced output.  Finally, if you want the PAL footage to be converted to NTSC film @ 23.976 fps, then there will be an additional step required to telecine the converted NTSC footage to 29.97 fps for DVD.

     

    Regardless, you have a lot of work ahead of you.

     

    Jeff

     
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    8. Jeff Bellune,
    Aug 18, 2012 7:25 AM   in reply to gjkiii
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    If you are still interested, I can point you in the direction of the free, open-source tools that you'll need, and provide you with a script for AviSynth that will convert your HD PAL 25 fps video to NTSC SD 23.976 fps, ready for transcoding to MPEG2 DVD.

     

    Jeff

     
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    9. gjkiii,
    Aug 18, 2012 8:41 AM   in reply to Jeff Bellune
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    Thanks Jeff. I went ahead and used after effects to do it. It did the job fine.

     
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    10. Jeff Bellune,
    Aug 18, 2012 9:02 AM   in reply to gjkiii
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    Good deal.  Thanks for posting back.

     

    Jeff

     
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