HD-ish question...

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RoadRunnerHarry

First, many thank-you's to both John's here for the help
on the "speed-up" stuff (8x was the way to go) -- it's
coming out just great... I'm the one trying to condense
the video taping of a route that I drive (for training
purposes, etc).

The only dilemma I have at this point is a relatively
minor one having to do with the attributes of the
ultimate playback device. Ideally, I would like to have
the resulting movie played on one of these little
portable DVD players that (apparently) intrinsically
behaves in the High-Definition mode, such that "normal"
(non-HD) stuff gets "squished" outward horizontally to
fill the entire screen... so I'm wondering if there is a
movie creation option that can overcome this "squishing" -
- in other words, can I fix/lock/somehow-predefine the
aspect ratio ?

fyi: I use ArcSoft's ShowBiz v2 for my DVD burning.

Harry
 
Hi Harry,

Glad it's working..... MM2 can work with either standard 4:3 or widescreen
16:9 modes, but unless the video was taken with the camcorder in widescreen
mode, or cropped using another app like Virtual Dub, it'd be "squished".

I don't use ShowBiz so don't know how best to prep it for it, or if it could
handle it easily for you without any prepping. The online info for it
doesn't mention widescreen, so it might not.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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Hi Harry,

If your original movie was recorded in 16:9, and, when you create your
movie by saving it to hard drive as DV-AVI and have your options set to 16:9
then that's how it will display. I tried several DVD creation programs and
found that some of them loose the information at the head of the file and as
a result do not create the DVD with the correct aspect ratio. I presently
use Dazzle DVD Complete which allows you to mix aspect ratio's in the same
project.

I don't understand your comments about High Definition video. The new HD
stuff is to do with the date rate not the aspect ration.

If after feeding your finished video into your DVD making software you
find that the aspect ration has changed, then either that software has an
option you have not set, or, the software is not preserving the header
information.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
 
the doc that came with the portable player, which more
nearly is the real issue, and/or the ShowBiz sw itself --
just thought I'd give the wizards here a shot first.

btw: I learned of, yet another, subtle TV-DVD player
playback concern -- if it plays "-R's" OK, it may not
play "-RW's" OK... let's here it for the absence of
standards... the bleeding edge... "Beta is better" stuff.

I'll let you guys know how I make out.

Harry
 
All of the MM2 save options are AR=4:3... therefor likely
an SBv2 or player issue -- sorry for bugging you guys,
I'll let you know what I wind up with.

Harry
 
Cari

Thanks -- I'll give it a shot.

fyi: this speed-up stuff needs an overall caveat -- given
that most DVD players have a "slow-down" function...
i.e., you can save a heck of a lot of storage space (on
the delivery medium) by using the faster modes and then
just requesting that the viewer slow it down on the TV-
DVD player, etc.

RoadRunnerHarry
 
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