I burned 2 DVD's in 16:9 aspect. Everything looks and sounds fine as a saved file that I watch on Windows Media Player and everything looks fine on my DVD preview in EMC 9 too. When I burned it the Audio is out of sync with the video on the final disc and the picture seems a little choppy on TV. I just bought a new 37" LCD TV too. My main problem is the audio though.
Any suggestions or should I just retry again? Would changing from Interlaced to Progressive matter?

The movies are each about 1 hour and 45 min. in length.
Project settings are at 'Fit to Disc' which I assume is the best possible.
I took the video using the widescreen option on my camera. The preview when burning on EMC 9 will show a picture compressed from the sides but lays out nicely on a 16x9 TV.

Are you using regular DVD, or Dual Layer?

What are your computer specs (processor, processor speed, memory, burner, Video Card, free space on Hard Drive)?

Lynn

Jesse,
one forty five on a single layer disc is about 50% compression. I would try a split or dual layer disc and save the project to a ISO file. Your new TV will handle the progressive, and you could try it. What type of camera and how are you capturing or importing the video?

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I actually tried to re burn a disc and the audio was a little better this time. I still have issues with the clarity of video. I'm not sure about all the exact specs of the computer but it's a 1 year old Dell with all the bells and whistles. I'm sure it has plenty of space and processor speed but the video card could be an issue. I don't know. I'm burning it at 16x speed. Would a slower speed help.

Just curious as to the source of the video and how it was transferred to the PC.

I actually just reburned a disc and the audio was a little more in sync this time. I actually burned a 20 minute disc too and that had some video issues. It seems like any rippling water or skin on a persons face is choppy and pixelated. I've been using the regular SONY DVD's for burning. It says SP is about 2 hours and FINE is about an hour.
I used a Canon Elura 100 for filming in widescreen mode. I created my movie on Windows Movie Maker. I then saved it as a file and imported the file in to my EMC 9 project. To watch on a standard 4:3
TV, I must burn it in 704 x 480 to have the black bars but for my new 16x9 TV I burn it in the regular 720 x 480. The preview is compressed from the side but the size becomes normal on a widescreen TV.

I would knock that burn speed back to 8x to see if it makes a difference.

On a regular DVD, you aren't going to get more than about an hour of good quality Video, or 90 minutes of medium quality Video.

In addition to Bruce's advice to slow it down, I'd suggest you split it into two parts.

Lynn

Just another suggestion, when you go to burn, burn the project to an iso file. Once the project is encoded, copy that iso file to your DVD using Disc Copier. Burning this way divorces the encoding from the actual burning so your computer is only doing one thing at a time. This has solved a lot of sync and quality issues.