I shot a short film in HDV (720P) and edited in this same format. When the time came to render, I chose PAL DV to ultimately import into DVD Architect. I also selected the PAL format for the DVDA project and burned to disc.
Everything works well when playing the disc on a computer. But when I play it on a plain old DVD Player connected to a TV, the side edges are cut off. It DOES display everything when I zoom out, but that's at 1/2 size. Any ideas how to correct this?
Re: HDV render in PAL not displaying by Marcus Frakes on Jul 6, 2008 at 6:12:33 am
But I thought a widescreen setting only changed the pixel size....makes each one wider. I need a setting that squishes the wide picture into a 4:3 frame. But I'll try a render in widescreen later today and post the results.
Re: HDV render in PAL not displaying by John Rofrano on Jul 6, 2008 at 4:59:05 pm
> I need a setting that squishes the wide picture into a 4:3 frame.
That would look terrible. If you shot HDV then your source is 16:9 widescreen. If you want to preserve the aspect you need to render to PAL Widescreen. If you want 4:3 you need to physically CROP the media to 4:3. Stretching it will look horrible. If I were you I'd render in widescreen and let it letterbox for people who have 4:3 TV's. Otherwise you need to crop all of the events so that they match a 4:3 aspect making sure you don't cut off parts of the image you want to keep (unless you framed for 4:3 and are sure that all the important bits are in the center of the frame).
