Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

Is there any way to fix this in DVDA or prior to insertion in DVDA without having to rerender the whole damn vid? (2.5 hours) :/

To clarify the footage is shot 16x9 and is supposed to be 16x9 but right now its all squished into a 4:3 box. :(

Working in VPro8 and it looks like it was just a stupid error on my part that rendered it thusly...although as I watched the beginning of it render it before I went to bed it looked 16x9 fine. :(
DVDA is set up for 16x9 video.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


sincerely,

ian

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

Unless I'm mistaken, Ian, you seem to be thinking of fixing the footage by stretching it a different direction?

Just re-render it. It cannot be fixed.

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

Damn!
That's what I thought, Jeff, but I was holding out hope for an alternate option... :/

Thanks.

Now back the renderer-er..... heh.

*sigh*

ian

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

Good luck!

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

What error did you make on render, and where are you seeing it as a squished 4:3 box?

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

Hey David,

The only thing I can think of is that I'd already rendered a similar video (day 1 of 3 days of recitals) and when I went to render day 2 the bitrate/aspect/progressive items were all set but then I stepped out of the setup for that for a moment (I'd never saved the settings...doh!) and went back into them noticing the bitrates had reset default so I re-entered the numbers, set to progressive but, perhaps, forgot to set 16x9 so it rendered out as 4:3.
grrrr.
Well, back to the comp.

ian

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

But if you set it to render as 4:3, it should letterbox the footage, not squish it. (Unless you also messed with the "stretch to fit" settings or something, but that's probably not likely.)

I ask because it's possible there was nothing wrong with the render; it could be that whatever you're watching the footage in is simply displaying it as 4:3 instead of 16:9. If it does this with widescreen footage, it will appear as you describe.

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

Hmmm.
Well, I played it in VLC and Windows Media Player and it's squished.

David, I hear what you're saying about the black bars. Yeah it should show if rendered 4:3

So, maybe I did uncheck "stretch to fit" damn.

ian

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

How does it look in DVD Architect?

Is this an AVI or MPEG file?

For DVD Architect, just use the DVD Architect templates under MPEG-2. Don't change anything. Then you never have to worry.

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

It's an mpeg file with ac3 audio
All my menus and intro files are 16x9 but when I preview the rendered video it is squished with bars on the sides.
And mpg2 templates?
Am I blind?
heh.

I'm using DVDA5

ian

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

Yeah, then you need to re-render.

Re: Rendered 16x9 is 4:3 with people tall and thin...
 

Yup.
And that's just what I did, Dave. :)

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Appreciated, even though I had to re-render. :)

sincerely,

ian