wide screen menu question
by Frank Draven
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Oct 2, 2008 at 6:17:21 pm
o.k. so when I do DVD Studio Pro menu's I have always created them in Photoshop CS3 with the NTSC D1 Widescreen setting that has given me a perfect wide screen menu that does not stretch and fits perfectly.
Now im running into a bit of a problem with this routine when using a 3d program to make the menu.
I'm making a 3d animated menu in 3ds Max 9. I figured it would be easy, create the animation and render it into NTSC D1 Widescreen format and I would be all set up.... But then something very very bad would happen that would screw my plans up totally, and that is I find out that 3ds Max 9 doesn't seem to have the settings NTSC D1 Widescreen, they do have the full screen NTSC D1 setting but not the widescreen setting. So now I have been trying to render at all other sizes hoping for the menu to have no black bars and every time I get a render it has black bars.
Does anyone else know a format that I can use that would give me the results I want?? At this point I have really hit a brick wall and have a bit of a deadline to keep. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks.
Re: wide screen menu question by Michael Sacci on Oct 2, 2008 at 6:24:11 pm
I don't have 3d Max but there should be a aspect ratio setting somewhere in the pref settings. Look for 1.2 (it probably is set for .9 now) That setting should make it work.
Re: wide screen menu question by Frank Draven on Oct 2, 2008 at 10:42:52 pm
Yea I look for a 1.2 setting, there isn't one. I tried setting it to 1.2 manually and 720 x 486 but its still giving me bars on the side. I almost feel like it might be a anormorphic problem, and I don't know how to render in anormorphic. Either way somethings not working right with these image files, no matter what I do I have borders.
Re: wide screen menu question by Frank Draven on Oct 3, 2008 at 10:23:53 pm
When I render at the 720 x 480 with a 1.2 I would get the bars on the side. Because Im dealing with a deadline I decided to just render it at anything that seemed like it wouldn't give me the bars. I ended up coming up with a bit of a higher resolution then I wanted too 900x502 with a pixel aspect of 2.15139 but it seems to be doing the job, I don't see bars with this resolution and if there is its only a very few pixels barely noticable. I tested a few images and like what I saw so right now I have 3ds max rendering the animation out and I'm going to put it together later tonight maybe tomorrow and burn a disc and see if it looks good on a widescreen LCD. Thanks, ill let you know how it works out.
Re: wide screen menu question by Frank Draven on Oct 6, 2008 at 5:48:55 pm
If wondering 900x502 with a pixel aspect of 2.15139 in 3ds Max work for me, not sure why I was getting bars on 720 x 480 with a 1.2 but this got the job done for me.
