I just downloaded MF6+ for evaluation, I want to burn HD-DVDs onto regular red-laser blanks. I was able to import a 1440x1080x24p clip encoded with Huffyuv with no problem, but the program identified the clip as 4:3 and automatically pillarboxed it. Now I have my widescreen HD squished horizontally to 4:3 and then pillarboxed to 16:9, and there is no way I can tell the MF that the original clip is 16:9. MF developers should have known that AVI has no aspect information in its header, so they should have provided an option to specify either frame AR or pixel AR for each AVI clip. Apparently, they didn't.
What do I do? Is Ulead aware of the problem and is it going to fix it? The solutions are:
* ask for FAR/PAR for every imported AVI clip
* ask for FAR/PAR for the first AVI clip and provide a checkbox "Use this AR for all imported AVI clips"
* Allow changing AR for any given clip in the composition.
Thanks.
How to specify clip/pixel aspect ratio?
I'm not aware of any ulead products that will allow you to change the source videos properties.
When using the Huffyuv codec your better off rendering from the other software using square pixel settings if you want to use the videos in the ulead products.
So for HighDef that would be 1920x1080i.
If your source is 24p I think you need to put the 24p into a wrapper first to match MF6+ framerate for that country and HD-DVD standard. Otherwise MF6+ will re-encode the video to the standard framerate for the country you have it set for.(NTSC or PAL).
When using the Huffyuv codec your better off rendering from the other software using square pixel settings if you want to use the videos in the ulead products.
So for HighDef that would be 1920x1080i.
If your source is 24p I think you need to put the 24p into a wrapper first to match MF6+ framerate for that country and HD-DVD standard. Otherwise MF6+ will re-encode the video to the standard framerate for the country you have it set for.(NTSC or PAL).