Widescreen still burning as 4:3

[cjenness]

I have an hour movie in DV AVI widescreen format (720x480px) that I cannot get to burn as widescreen in spite of trying everything I've read on this forum. When I open the file in MyDVD, it previews in widescreen just fine. But when I encode it, it the preview shows it as 4:3, and when I burn the iso file to disc, it plays back compressed to 4:3 format. I specified "high quality", 720x480 pixels, and 9Mb/S bitrate in the project settings. I am using ImageBurn to burn the disc.

I intend to shoot videos in widescreen format routinely, so it is important that I can burn DVD's in widescreen. Can anyone help me?

[cjenness]

That is because there is really is no 'true' widescreen. ALL VIDEO DVDs are 720X480. To create widescreen, they squish the image into that resolution using 'non-square' pixels. The DVD player then knows how to unsquish the image to display it properly.

 

How are you playing the disc back? On the computer or TV/DVD player? If you are playing it back on a DVD player, make sure the DVD player is set correctly.

 

When playing back 16:9 video DVD on a 4:3 TV, the DVD player MUST BE SET TO LETTERBOX.

When playing back 16:9 video DVD on a 16:9 TV, the DVD player must be set to widescreen.

The Pan/Scan mode does not work with home burned DVDs.

I am playing it back on a TV with the DVD set for "letterbox". However, I tried the burning process again, and to my amazement, it plays back in letterbox. I don't think I did anything different, although it's possible that I previously let the program default to "fit to disc" instead of specifying the quality and video resolution. I don't see why that would matter, though.

[ggrussell]

It shouldn't make a difference, but glad it worked.

[Beerman]

I have an hour movie in DV AVI widescreen format (720x480px) that I cannot get to burn as widescreen in spite of trying everything I've read on this forum. When I open the file in MyDVD, it previews in widescreen just fine. But when I encode it, it the preview shows it as 4:3, and when I burn the iso file to disc, it plays back compressed to 4:3 format. I specified "high quality", 720x480 pixels, and 9Mb/S bitrate in the project settings. I am using ImageBurn to burn the disc.

I intend to shoot videos in widescreen format routinely, so it is important that I can burn DVD's in widescreen. Can anyone help me?

Have you look at the project settings in MyDVD?

[ggrussell]

it the preview shows it as 4:3,

That is because there is really is no 'true' widescreen. ALL VIDEO DVDs are 720X480. To create widescreen, they squish the image into that resolution using 'non-square' pixels. The DVD player then knows how to unsquish the image to display it properly.

 

How are you playing the disc back? On the computer or TV/DVD player? If you are playing it back on a DVD player, make sure the DVD player is set correctly.

 

When playing back 16:9 video DVD on a 4:3 TV, the DVD player MUST BE SET TO LETTERBOX.

When playing back 16:9 video DVD on a 16:9 TV, the DVD player must be set to widescreen.

The Pan/Scan mode does not work with home burned DVDs.