Having trouble with 16:9 playback

[nomad27]

Hi Folks,

 

I'm new here and not sure if this is the corect forum for this question but the Moderator can move it if necessary...

 

I'm trying to make/edit home video in 16:9 format. My Camcorder is a Sony DCR-DVD403, a DVD recorder.

My computer is a HP Dual Core 6400 with 2 gig ram and 2-250 gig SATA hard drives. OS is XP Media Edition. Video card is Nvidia GEForce 7300LE.

 

When examing the camcorder file properties, windows says they are 16:9... I set "project settings" to 16:9 and resolution to 720X480 but the edit window still shows a 4:3 format with vertically stretched people.

 

I have tried capturing camera video through my Happauge WinTV encoder (S-video in with stero audio) and have also tried inporting the DVD directly and it's the same result - no 16:9 format in the edit window. Is it the fault of the capture card? If so, I would think that would be circumvented by importing the file from the mini DVD directly.

 

The short videos I have edited and played back on my Panasonic DVD Recorder/Player seem to be 16:9 if my TV is set to this format - all proportions seem to be correct but I don't see a 16:9 edit window and the program is telling me it's a 4:3 ratio when I know it isn't.

 

I must be doing something wrong. Can anyone point me in the proper direction?

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

Nomad27

[nomad27]

Seems like we have seen this problem before with miniDVD capture in Media Import 9. For some reason, the 16:9 flag is not saved in the file. Thry this:

 

Make sure the miniDVD is finalized so Windows Explorer can 'see' it.

Use Windows Explorer to just copy the VOB files to you hard drive.

Open Videowave and create a new 16:9 project

Click ADD VIDEO and add one of the VOB files

 

That should work.

 

 

Thanks, I'll try that... I did a similar thing except opened the program with the create DVD icon and it didn't work there but I'll try it the way you suggested using Video Wave and see if it works...

 

nomad27

[Jesse]

I'm having a similar problem. I recorded a movie with my MiniDV in 16:9. I edited the movie in windows movie maker and set it up with EMC 9. Everything looked great until it came to the burning. It encodes the movie without the black bars therefore it's stretched vertically. I can set the menu to a 16:9 ratio but the movie itself came out stretched. Have you had any luck?

[ggrussell]

Seems like we have seen this problem before with miniDVD capture in Media Import 9. For some reason, the 16:9 flag is not saved in the file. Thry this:

 

Make sure the miniDVD is finalized so Windows Explorer can 'see' it.

Use Windows Explorer to just copy the VOB files to you hard drive.

Open Videowave and create a new 16:9 project

Click ADD VIDEO and add one of the VOB files

 

That should work.