Problem With Dimensions

[jackjoker]

Hi,

 

I would like to burn an AVI file these dimensions: 704 x 464 (anamorph: 858 x 464). Both VLC and Quicktime show it how I would like it to be. But the Disc Image I burn with toast shows irritating blacks bars and has a 4:3-ish, deformed look but when opened in myDVDEdit it says it is 16:9.

 

How can I solve this problem?

[tsantee]

I believe I solved a similar problem by opening the video with MPEG Streamclip and choosing Save to create a new version of the same format video. The proper tags were added by Streamclip so that Toast got it right. I'd think that choosing Save as... with QuickTime also would add the tags but as I recall it didn't work out. Give my Streamclip suggestion a try.

[jackjoker]

Thank you very much for your quick response. I tried it (isn't there a faster way to check if it works then saving it as a disc image)...

Anyhow, yes, toast now sees the 702 x 464 as it earlier only saw the anamorphic one but it still pops up with side bars. In VLC it still shows the anamorphic one but now in Quicktime it shows the misformed 702 x 464 as well... I don't have the original anymore but as it shows correctly in VLC I have no idea what the problem is. How can I show toast that I want it anamorphic?

[tsantee]

I'm sorry but I exactly know why this happens. It is pretty rare. You can speed up your testing by using Toast's editor to mark a small piece of the video so you don't have to wait for the whole thing to be done in order to watch a clip from a mounted disc image. In Toast's Custom Encoder Settings window there is a setting where you can force the video to be encoded as 16:9 but you said that is already what is in the .ifo. It's just that Toast is rescaling the video with black bars on the side to fill out the 16:9 frame when it doesn't need to.

 

The only thing I can recall that worked was resaving the video before adding it to Toast. There may be another topic on this in either the Toast 10 or 9 forum because it may be that someone sent me a clip that they were having trouble with and I figured out a workaround. I just don't recall all the details.