Capture both 16:9 and 4:3 DV from a single tape?

Stickman II · Post by **Stickman II** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:54 am

Hello all,
I just bought a Canon Elure 100 DV camcorder , so Im very new to this DV<>DVD stuff.

OK here it goes
Is there a way to <Capture (in 4:3 mode) using firewire cable> both 16:9 and 4:3 DV video taped on the same tape , to a DVD ( or MPEG2 ) with out the play back of the sceens shot in widescreen mode (16:9) getting squashed together to fit the 4:3 screen resolution set for capture???

Basickly I figured if I Captured in 4:3 mode to my PC , that all the sceens I taped in widescreen would have been captured and played back with that Black bar on top and bottom effect you get on a standared TV and of course all the standared stuff would get played back as normal full screen.

Am I missing somthing or is what Im looking to do just not possible.

I tried several software programs ( Magix , Nero , Ulead ) and they all seem to be doing the same thing.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:54 am

Rather than capturing the whole tape in one go you would be better capturing the 4.3 in 4.3 and then capturing the 16.9 in 16.9 so that you have more than one video.

Otherwise you end up trying to play cricket with a tennis racket and tennis with a cricket bat.

Stickman II · Post by **Stickman II** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:49 pm

Yes that is what I had to do , Capture each clip using the resolution that fit the video clip.

Then again the only way I could get it to Burn to DVD corectly was to burn in Widescreen formate ( 16:9 ) , If I did it using 4:3 all the wide screen stuff gets compressed together to fit into the Standard screen view , the other way ( 16:9 mode ) the widescreen stuff performed as expected with Black bars on top and bottom of screen and the normal 4:3 video clips play with Black bars on top / bottom / and sides

, but at least the video wasnt streched or compressed to fit the view.

Then again I used NERO Vision Express 3 to do this.

I just figured with the technical abilities of a PC and a firewire cable that It would work kind of like a TV uses Video ID-1 code to know how to display a Video with as little distortions as posible.

Also didnt know if Uleads MF 4 would handle this differently as I got the demo but it wouldnt let me burn a DVD sample.