shot wide screen shows 4:3 ?? at DVinfo.net

Dale Guthormsen · April 7th, 2006, 09:53 PM

I have been out shooting my new xl2 and it is an amazing camera in so many ways. When i shot with my gl2 the wide screen would show up as wide screen on my 54 inch hitachi tv.

The xl2 shows as regular screen even though i shot with wide screen.

Is that because it is native 16:9 and the sides are cut off??? or do I need to change some setting??/

thanks for your response.

Jimmy McKenzie · April 7th, 2006, 10:01 PM

Dale, are you connecting to your tv via s-video? If so, your result is normal. Once you capture your footage to your nle as widescreen 1.2 p.a.r., you will then export to your authoring program and build your dvd at 16x9 settings and achieve the desired output.
Are you playing back a dvd disk authored at 4:3 with the player set to 4:3?

Dale Guthormsen · April 7th, 2006, 10:41 PM

Jimmy,

I jsut hooked up the camera using the three plugs to an amplifier that runs the dvd and vcr and cd player.
there is no post yet.

dale

Michael Deitch · April 7th, 2006, 11:52 PM

Yea, even though you are shooting in 16:9, it still lays to tape animorphic. So if you watch it on a 4:3 TV, it'll look stretched, but if you watch it on a 16:9 TV, it'll look normal. It freaked me out the first time too.

April 7th, 2006, 09:53 PM	#1
Dale Guthormsen Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 3,048	shot wide screen shows 4:3 ?? I have been out shooting my new xl2 and it is an amazing camera in so many ways. When i shot with my gl2 the wide screen would show up as wide screen on my 54 inch hitachi tv. The xl2 shows as regular screen even though i shot with wide screen. Is that because it is native 16:9 and the sides are cut off??? or do I need to change some setting??/ thanks for your response. __________________ DATS ALL FOLKS Dale W. Guthormsen

April 7th, 2006, 10:41 PM	#3
Dale Guthormsen Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 3,048	16:9 ? Jimmy, I jsut hooked up the camera using the three plugs to an amplifier that runs the dvd and vcr and cd player. there is no post yet. dale __________________ DATS ALL FOLKS Dale W. Guthormsen

April 7th, 2006, 10:01 PM	#2
Jimmy McKenzie Major Player Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Waterloo Ontario Posts: 721	Dale, are you connecting to your tv via s-video? If so, your result is normal. Once you capture your footage to your nle as widescreen 1.2 p.a.r., you will then export to your authoring program and build your dvd at 16x9 settings and achieve the desired output. Are you playing back a dvd disk authored at 4:3 with the player set to 4:3?

April 7th, 2006, 11:52 PM	#4
Michael Deitch New Boot Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 5	Yea, even though you are shooting in 16:9, it still lays to tape animorphic. So if you watch it on a 4:3 TV, it'll look stretched, but if you watch it on a 16:9 TV, it'll look normal. It freaked me out the first time too.