Strange Resolution Problems

Generix45 · Post by **Generix45** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:41 am

I have a small problem here. When I want to author my DVDs, and i have finished all my edits with the menu etc; and i select a compression setting, like high quality etc. the default ones, i go to choose some custom settings for compression and i want to change my resolution to a custom resolution but the user defined resolution box is greyed out and i cant modify the boxes. Why is this? All i get is the standard resolutions and when i put my widescreen movies that are at a resolution that is widescreen on DVD they look very squished on my 4:3 TV and I think by putting in a custom resolution will make the black bars show up on my tv. so they look as they would in the theaters. I have no idea how to unlock this feature. or is it somthing i am doing wrong?

Edit: I also want to change the Frames Per Second to match that of the original AVI file. and prevent the frame skips from occoring on the final composition. I want to change it to 24 frames per second but it is locked at 29.97 and greyed out like the custom resolution thing. I had this same issue in DVD workshop 1 as well.

thanks

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:59 am

Going from memory as I am at work at the moment on a night shift.
The greyed out boxes you refer to are on the second tab.
If you go to the third tab there is a compression drop down list, when you select a different compression here it now enables the boxes on the second tab.

If it doesn't work, I'll take a look on my machine when I get home.

Steve J

Generix45 · Post by **Generix45** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:42 am

yeah i dont see the tab you are talking about with the drop down menu. sorry. I'll keep tryin stuff and see if i can mess around with it.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:17 am

Sorry but I have given you some misinformation.
I got home and checked. I opened up
DVD Workshop 2
Movie Factory 4
Video Studio 9
Media Studio Pro 8

They all have the same standard save dialog box.

The greyed out options vary slightly between products and the only time that you get full control over things like frame rate and user defined frame size is when rendering to an AVI file. You don't get these options when rendering to an MPEG.
Therefore you can only get these options with the 3 editor programs
VS9, MF4 (Export feature) and MSP8.

Regards
Steve J

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:15 pm

NTSC video is 29.97 frames per second. I'm not sure if progressive-scan is an exception, but a regular NTSC TV/monitor requires 29.97. There might be a way to put a "flag" on the DVD, so that the DVD can have 24 FPS, and have the player perform the conversion... something to do with "3:2 pulldown"???

In any case, Workshop is going to try and make a regular 29.97 FPS NTSC or 25 FPS PAL compatible DVD.

There are settings for 16:9 and 4:3. (I'm not on my "video computer" right now, so I can't help you with the details.) You do NOT change the aspect ratio by changing the resolution. Both 16:9 and 4:3 DVDs have the SAME 720x480 resolution. Its the pixel-shape that's different. (There a couple of other allowable resolutions (and PAL is different), but the DVD spec is very limited... You can't change the resolution at-will.