mpeg2 convert to 16:9

[surfer]

Hi,

I have imported a dvd 720x576 into Videostudio x3. Edited the mpeg file and saved as: PAL dvd 16:9.
When i play the output mpeg2 file there are borders left and right. I thought when i convert the imported file to a 16:9 PAL then it will be played full screen on my mediaplayer or in Windows itself but that isn't.
How can i convert the video, without any loss of quality (a bit...) to 16;9 to play full screen without borders?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi surfer

Basically you have to zoom in to the frames, or resize the frame 4:3 to 16:9
You will lose some detail at the top and bottom.

View this tutorial, works equally as well for all versions.

http://lata.me.uk/video_studio/16_9/16_9.htm

[surfer]

Hi surfer

Basically you have to zoom in to the frames, or resize the frame 4:3 to 16:9
You will lose some detail at the top and bottom.

View this tutorial, works equally as well for all versions.

http://lata.me.uk/video_studio/16_9/16_9.htm

Thx.

[surfer]

The tasks in the document don't work in Videostudio X3. WHen i right click the preview i don't see any options, cannot find distort etc...

And isn't this only for the preview, the output file must be full screen on a standalone home player?

I have read somewhere to disable: non square pixel rendering, but this doesn't help, there staying 2 borders on left and right..

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Using X3

1 / Settings-Project Properties-Edit-General Tab- set Display aspect ratio to 16:9.
2 / add your video clip to the top timeline.
3 / Click the library “options” button--lower right
4 / Choose the attributes tab.
5 / Select Distort

The preview window will show the clip as having “yellow trim handles”

6/ Right click the preview screen-- Select Fit to Screen
7/ Right click the preview screen.—Select Keep Aspect ratio

With the clip in the overlay track—follow 7 and 8


Render the project to DVD 16:9

[surfer]

Done what you have said and re render the file. Strange thing is the clip keeps giving borders left and right in MP11 and also with Videolan. When i open the output file again in VIdeostudio the properties say the clip is 16:9.. I am afriaid though that my standalone mediaplayer will also show the borders left and right just like the software in WIndows.....

[Trevor Andrew]

Do the borders show as part of the original 4:3 video file?

[surfer]

Yes, they are also in the original file. Original is a DVD imported in Videostudio. Playing the dvd gives also the borders left and right in mediaplayer. I assume (always was before) that when the borders are in Mediaplayer they also are when played with my standalone media player..

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

I don’t know why you have borders on the original video files, but must be the way you have captured/created them. You need to investigate as to why they occurred in the first place?

But zooming in a little further will remove them.
After resizing the video from 4:3 to 16:9, drag the preview frame diagonally so that one of the corners lie in the centre, now drag the corner to re-size the frame, just a little larger.
Right click and select Anchor – Centre/Centre

Tip:- if you were to change the background colour you will be able to identify the actual frame.