4X3 and 16X9 videos in the same project

[GregK]

Hi
I am a bit lost for any more suggestions What you are trying to do I don't think is possible
If you say the ISO file works OK Try burning this to a Disc using the burn function in tools

Chris, naturally...I've explained that in an earlier reply. That's not the problem, not with a final ISO that works containing mixed ratios. The problem is with mixed ratios that doesn't work as I've repeatedly explained here.

It has just happened AGAIN...I had a new project with mixed ratios (one was 4x3 and two were 16x9). I had preconverted the two 16x9 videos and imported them into DMF and saved the project, which was set for 16x9. I later preconverted and imported a third video which was 4x3...and my final ISO/DVD turned out EXACTLY as I wanted it when I watched it on my tv (as well as how the video VOB files were on the disc): the 16x9 videos were as they should be, and the 4x3 video was as it should be.

Explain why this happens sometimes and not others.

[skier-hughes]

Only thing I can think of is that the meta data expaining what should happen to each video gets corrupted somewhere along the line.

[GregK]

I believe I figured out what the problem is:

I just started testing my theory out, and I think I'm correct in this (running a new version of my original project to test my theory). I did yet another new project which mixed 4x3 and 16x9 ratios, and when playing the ISO file back in VLC Player, each different ratio was correctly displayed...I could easily see this because the VLC window changed shape.

I believe that DMF6 WILL handle different aspect ratios (4x3 and 16x9) in the same project (I'm working with my project settings for 16x9)...but what I forgot in my original video project I described in my first post was that the two videos I had simply began and ended. In DMF I added a brief fade-in and fade-out to both videos...and I think that's where the problem lies. DMF will handle two different aspect ratios in the same project, but if you go into the Edit Room and add any form of transition effect to a video (such as a fade-in or fade-out), DMF can't compensate for that and produces the final project according to whatever your aspect ratio settings are for that project.

I figured it out because the transition effects are actual video files within the program, and as far as I can figure out the program is limited to what those transition files are and whatever your project settings are, and it can't compensate for that based on what your video files' aspect ratios are. In my newer project I've done since I posted about my original problem (see my first post in this thread), I didn't add any transition effects to the other videos in the Edit Room.

Again...I'm testing my theory out now and will post back here once I know for certain. I'm nearly 100% positive I'm right about this, though.

[GregK]

I was right....adding the fade-in and fade-out transitions at the beginning and end of each video is what was causing the discrepancy with the aspect ratios, as I originally described in my initial post in this thread.