Letterbox disappears during encoding with sofware render

[RnR]

I am running EMC 9 on Windows XP SP2 with all the latest patches. I captured 16:9 video from my Panasonic PV-GS320 video camera as MPEG-2, and added it to a production in Video Wave. The video looks letterboxed when played in Video Wave, and also during the preview option in MyDVD. If I have it set on software rendering, as soon as I start to burn the project, it plays approximately 5 seconds of letterbox video before it switches to non-letterboxed video with the sides cut-off and the imaged stretched vertically. It does this even in the encoding preview, and if I burn it to an ISO file instead of straight to a DVD. It doesn't do this if I have it set on hardware rendering, but I get lines through the video because my video card isn't good enough for a quality rendering (though it passes the tests.) I've tried this with mulitple files, and mulitple tapes. I've re-captured the video and opened VideoWave and MyDVD without going through the Home screen, but this continues to happen. I've spent hours on this, and am stumped.

 

Has anyone seen this, or does anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[grandpabruce]

I am running EMC 9 on Windows XP SP2 with all the latest patches. I captured 16:9 video from my Panasonic PV-GS320 video camera as MPEG-2, and added it to a production in Video Wave. The video looks letterboxed when played in Video Wave, and also during the preview option in MyDVD. If I have it set on software rendering, as soon as I start to burn the project, it plays approximately 5 seconds of letterbox video before it switches to non-letterboxed video with the sides cut-off and the imaged stretched vertically. It does this even in the encoding preview, and if I burn it to an ISO file instead of straight to a DVD. It doesn't do this if I have it set on hardware rendering, but I get lines through the video because my video card isn't good enough for a quality rendering (though it passes the tests.) I've tried this with mulitple files, and mulitple tapes. I've re-captured the video, opened VideoWave and MyDVD without going through the Home screen, but this continues to happen. I've spent hours on this, and am stumped.

 

Has anyone seen this, or does anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

 

When you opened VideoWave, did you click on File/New Production, then click on 16:9, then add your captured video?

[RnR]

When you opened VideoWave, did you click on File/New Production, then click on 16:9, then add your captured video?

 

I added it to a 4:3 production in VideoWave so that it would encode the letterboxing into the DVD. When I tried adding the video to a 16:9 production, every DVD player I tried it on would not letterbox it even though they were all set at 4:3 letterbox.

[RnR]

I gave up and bought a new video card to see if I could at least burn decent DVDs using the hardware rendering. With the new card, I thought I noticed that the encoding preview had the lines in the video that I'd noticed when using hardware rendering, but I still finished burning the DVD. Sure enough, the DVD had lines throughout the video. Neither this nor the disappearance of the letterboxing happens during the preview in my DVD, but both show up on the preview window during the encoding, so something in the encoding must be causing this. Now I'm at the point where I can't use EMC 9 to burn this to a decent DVD, and I've wasted so many hours trying to get this to work.

 

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can get a decent DVD without abandoning EMC9 all together? I am truly at a loss, and I'm beyond frustrated.