rotated video results in horizontally stretched view on DVD
rotated video results in horizontally stretched view on DVD
If I shoot a video in either .mov or .mpg format using my handheld camera (4:3) format holding the camera in portrait style (tall) the video natively is 640 x 480, but using any of several tools when I rotate them so that the video runs correctly resulting in a 480 x 640 aspect ratio, the video looks perfect using any player. When imported into DVDMF, it appears stretched horizontally because the program tries to make it fit the 640x480 format. Doesn't matter if I choose 4:3 or 16:9 aspect within DVDMF. Is there a way to take a portrait oriented video at 480 x 640, rotate it so that it plays correctly and have DVDMF compile it correctly so that it's width is still only 480?
How did you rotate the video before using it in MF.
When you rotate a video it stays the same frame-size.
You camera is 4:3 640x480. If you held the camera sideways and recorded a video to correct this you have an editor rotate the video. But the Frame stays the same size.
Don't rotate the frame, rotate the contents in the frame. It's always 640x480.
Computer media players will play it back correctly because the player is using Square Pixels. When you insert the video into MF then it's 720x480 to be dvd compliant.
720 is the width and 480 is the height. So if you rotate only the contents of your video which is 640x480 the rotated video will still have the same "Height" (480) as MF's Dvd compliant settings. Because 640 is less than 720 (the width), MF will center the 640 pixel wide video into the 720 pixel wide frame.
When you rotate a video it stays the same frame-size.
You camera is 4:3 640x480. If you held the camera sideways and recorded a video to correct this you have an editor rotate the video. But the Frame stays the same size.
Don't rotate the frame, rotate the contents in the frame. It's always 640x480.
Computer media players will play it back correctly because the player is using Square Pixels. When you insert the video into MF then it's 720x480 to be dvd compliant.
720 is the width and 480 is the height. So if you rotate only the contents of your video which is 640x480 the rotated video will still have the same "Height" (480) as MF's Dvd compliant settings. Because 640 is less than 720 (the width), MF will center the 640 pixel wide video into the 720 pixel wide frame.