fullscreen and widescreen

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:43 am

is there a way to have both fullscreen and widescreen on the same disc? i have a tv show and was getting some old episodes onto disc for fans to enjoy coming soon, but there is a few episodes that i recorded both fullscreen and widescreen and are both on D8 master tapes that can do that at the present time when viewed. i was wondering if there is a way to have one segment show fullscreen then go widescreen the next segment without it having to fixate itself by squashing the 16:9 mode to fit as a fullscreen? thanks.

Mike-Mat · Post by **Mike-Mat** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:52 pm

Not sure, But I dont think you can do that. It needs to set a frame format for the screen.

Mike

InTheSand · Post by **InTheSand** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:41 pm

Hi,

It's possible to have 4:3 and 16:9 content on the same disc as long as each track is a consistent format. I used to live in the UK and recorded quite a bit of DTT broadcasts (Freeview) and some of this was shown in 4:3 with the ad breaks in 16:9.

With TMPGEnc DVD Author, I was able to create such a DVD, with this sort of structure:
Track 1: 16:9 programme introduction / announcement
Track 2: 4:3 part one of programme
Track 3: 16:9 adverts
Track 4: 4:3 part two of programme
etc...

Not sure if VS will let you do this though...

- Ali

Mike-Mat · Post by **Mike-Mat** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:00 pm

I think if you recorded that as one long stream and checked the properties, you'd see it was all in one format. You might be seeing 16x9 but it's really in a 4:3 frame.

Mike

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri May 26, 2006 1:38 am

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Fri May 26, 2006 11:44 pm

thanks for the info dudes i'll work with each process and use the TMPGEnc program as well cuz i have that too i'll tell ya the final outcome when i'm done

InTheSand · Post by **InTheSand** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:05 am

Hi,

FYI: the DTT I recorded was all in one PVA stream. I then ran that through PVAStrumento, which split out the 4:3 and 16:9 into separate MPEG2 PS files. This was a mixture of standard 4:3 and genuine 16:9 (and not 16:9 in a 4:3 frame).

So I ended up with a mixture of 4:3 and 16:9 files which I then fed into individual tracks within TMPGEnc DVD Author. It's a very flexible application for doing quick DVD jobs where the content is already in MPEG2.

It's also very useful for putting MPEG1 material on DVDs where length of the material (and keeping the disc count low) is more important than quality.

- Ali

P.S. Although I have a low post count, I've been doing video editing for years and am aware of what my applications are doing!

sleeper · Post by **sleeper** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:17 pm

I had a football game that started in 4:3 and then switched to 16:9. So I put it in vs9 took the 4:3 part and deleted the 16:9 saved it and then did the same to the 16:9. Then I edited it and made share files put in titles etc. I then went to creatdisc. and when it asked you to insert your video you just put it each shareed file and then burn the disc. Now on the dvd you have to files with seperated titles. But, once it playes one it playes the other one automatically. I am sure there is a way to make it play just one at a time, but I am not good enought with vs9 to tell you how. Someone else will have to do that. Hope this helps.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:03 am