Changing anamorphic footage to get it to DVD at DVinfo.net

Eric Goldberg · March 15th, 2007, 08:08 AM

I finished editing a movie i shot 24p 16:9 with the canon hx1. it is now ready to burn to dvd but when i burn it to dvd it burns full screen. can someone please give me a step by step guide by how to change this so it plays widescreen with the letterboxes. thank you.

Steve Benner · March 15th, 2007, 03:06 PM

First off, what DVD Authoring App are you using?

Basically though, regarfless of the App, you need to Encode a MPEG-2 16x9 file so that DVD players will know to flag it as widescreen natively. Each program is different though and some cannot handle 16x9.

March 15th, 2007, 08:08 AM	#1
Eric Goldberg New Boot Join Date: May 2006 Location: Philadelphia PA Posts: 10	Changing anamorphic footage to get it to DVD I finished editing a movie i shot 24p 16:9 with the canon hx1. it is now ready to burn to dvd but when i burn it to dvd it burns full screen. can someone please give me a step by step guide by how to change this so it plays widescreen with the letterboxes. thank you.

March 15th, 2007, 03:06 PM	#2
Steve Benner Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: United States Posts: 590	First off, what DVD Authoring App are you using? Basically though, regarfless of the App, you need to Encode a MPEG-2 16x9 file so that DVD players will know to flag it as widescreen natively. Each program is different though and some cannot handle 16x9.