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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2005DVD Burned with Toast - Image is Stretched?
I've got an .mov file that looks correct when viewed using QuickTime. I burned it to a DVD using Toast Titanium 6.0.7. When I view the file using a DVD player, the image is stretched width-wise -- it's wider than it should be. Everything looks stretched. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance to all for any info. > I've got an .mov file that looks correct when viewed using QuickTime. I > burned it to a DVD using Toast Titanium 6.0.7. When I view the file > using a DVD player, the image is stretched width-wise -- it's wider than > it should be. Everything looks stretched. Maybe the burned file had rectangular pixels. > Maybe the burned file had rectangular pixels. That sounds like it's probably it. I just re-exported the file from Final Cut Pro, with Pixel Aspect for the sequence set to "NTSC - CCIR 601", Frame Size set to "720 x 480", and Export Settings of "DV NTSC 48K." I still got the stretched DVD file. What are the correct settings for Final Cut Pro to export in, so that I avoid the rectangular pixels? Thanks very much in advance to all for any info. -Vik > > Maybe the burned file had rectangular pixels. > > That sounds like it's probably it. I don't have FCP, but what I'm suggesting is that the file may look "normal" if you play it on an NTSC TV. > > Maybe the burned file had rectangular pixels. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > -Vik I have gone on to enough other projects that I cannot recall if my recipe is exactly right. But two months ago I made the following notes to myself as I worked through a similar problem. Perhaps something in here will help you get where you want to go. ---Ken The following FCP procedure makes perfect unsquashed video for VCR tapes, black at top and bottom as necessary if original format is not 4:3. 0) note that NTSC Standard Definitions are almost same for Video and DV: 4:3 aspect ratio but non-square pixels 29.97 interlaced frames/sec width=720 but height=480 for NTSC DV and 486 for NTSC Video 1) in QuickTime adjust size to 720x(whatever maintains original aspect ratio). FCP doesn't seem to handle mp3 audio well, mp3 gives me choppy FCP audio output. So, in QuickTime, export the audio to a temporary aiff file. Then delete the compressed audio track and replace it with the aiff track. Save as .mov. 2) open FCP, start new project, save Audio/Visual Settings as follows: Sequence Preset: DV NTSC 48 KHz Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48 KHz Device Control Preset: FireWire NTSC Audio Playback: FireWire DV Video Playback: Apple FireWire NTSC (720x480) checking box for ³mirror on Desktop 3) in FCP, open file saved by QT. Drag to Sequence window and insert. 4) Render All will give a sequence file about 13 GB/hour which is the same as DV-25. 5) if audio/video synch needs work: Press apple-option-w to display audio waveforms; toggle height of tracks at bottom of timeline. Lock video track at left of timeline by clicking on lock. (so it won¹t be moved) Note linked items in timeline are underlined. Set in and out markers in sequence window (or timeline) around synchable area. Drag audio tracks left or right with ripple edit tool <--> until play in to out sounds good. 6) Save project and Print to Video. Solved! Thanks to the info I got from this group regarding square vs. rectangular pixels. The answer was to select each individual clip that is included in the sequence (there's a 'select all' command in the Final Cut Pro browser that makes this easy to do), and set the Pixel Aspect ratio to Square Pixels for every clip. |
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