DVD Authoring Question: 16:9 Source

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Some DVD authoring programs (IDVD, Ulead) cannot handle both 4:3 and 16:9 (widescreen source).

On some m2v files, the 16:9 screen images are squished vertically to fit the 4:3 format. In the past I was able to manually import the m2v file into my editing software, adjust the widescreen (make the image smaller) so it fit back down into a 4:3 frame and render, then re-export. This takes too much time to do for each vid.

is there a setting we can shoot for (Final Cut or Adobe Premiere or TMPEGEnc) that will export 16:9 images so the widescreen source is pre-adjusted to fit into the 4:3 TV screen?

Comments

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

I found an eve3n simpler way to correct the distortion (or aspect ratio - I can never tell the two apart) of a vid that has been submitted as a m2v file:

1. Import into QT Pro
2. Export it out again as a m2v file - select the export options and click on 16:9.

It should be fixed. I still need to do a test burn.