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[Ed C]

The project is set up as widescreen NTSC menu, the source material is from Premiere Pro CS3 in H.264/QT mov format @720x480 DV/widescreen 1.2 PAR.

When I right click the media in DVDit Pro HD v 6.3, it shows the aspect ratio as 16:9.  I have the movie tab set to be 16:9; yet when I drag the 16:9 clip onto a title spot, it keeps going to 4:3.  AARRGGH!  I've checked preferences and settings until I'm blue in the face, and I can't get it to come out as 16:9.  

This same H.264 file will burn to DVD in Encore 2.0 as widescreen, so I know the file is correct.  It has to be something in DVDit Pro HD.

Please tell me what I could be missing!

Thanks.

Ed

[SS Scott]

that's a bug.  pull the video into a second timeline in the same project and it should show it as 16:9.  you can then delete the second timeline and the first will still show as 16:9

[Ed C]

Thanks for the quick response - I'll give that a try and post back only if it did not work.

Cheers!

[Ed C]

OK - I'm back...  It still isn't working.  I've tried additional 16:9 source clips (1440x1080 QT animation created in AfterEffects as well as 16:9 video clips) in the same new project and they come to the timeline as 16:9, but my problem video still insists on being 4:3.

The difference may be that my other videos that appear to be working ok are 1440x1080 16:9 sources, while this problem seems to only be happening with my 720x480 16:9 source (29,760 kbs bit rate, 388MB file size, H.264 codec, and DVDit says file type: Video and Audio (QTime:unknown)).

I suspect I could cure it if I went back to Premiere and told it to spit out an H.264 mov file at 1440x1080 16:9, but that won't help me with non HD sources.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated - thanks.

Ed