JK: OK, I've gotta drill down here...

From: Harry (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/28/04


Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:48:54 -0700

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

>-----Original Message-----
>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
>
>
>
>
>"RoadRunnerHarry" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:56e101c42d38$b36844b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>



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