Help With VS9 Project Settings

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

I believe you have got true 16:9 widescreen video.

Trevor

[maximus01can]

Trevor,

If that's true would I see that black area in the top and bottom of the preview window in VS9 once the clips have been inserted into the timeline?

Cheers,
Max

[maximus01can]

Just an update on the DVD Mini Camcorder Saga, Did pretty much as Trevor and 2Dogs said by just laying out the project properties in Share>Custom>Set the properties the same as the clips noted in the previous posts, including 16:9 format and Dolby Digital Audio. Then encoding process didn't take much longer than an hour to finish so I'm sure there was some smart rendering going on there. Normally this step would take around 3 hrs to complete a 1.5 hr project into a MPEG II compliant video file ready for authoring to a DVD file. Once burned onto a DVD everything looks great with the 16:9 format and no problems with Stretched or Squished looking video. It does bother me that I had to be directed to the "Custom Settings" to set the project settings. Once I found out that all the settings required were available there it was pretty much a snap. I never noticed the preview screen go "Black" when the rendering was being completed, but I might mess around with the smart rendering a little more later. As far as bringing in the Video and pics, from the mini DVD discs I just copied them directely from the camera to my HD using the Sony software and found that to be a very painless process. I then just inserted the video clips into the project timeline. Again Thanks for the help. I'll try and help with anyone's questions if I can

Cheers,
Max

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Max

Trevor,

If that's true would I see that black area in the top and bottom of the preview window in VS9 once the clips have been inserted into the timeline?

Cheers,
Max

Sorry for the delay in answering this one, didn’t see your post until today.

When you use a 16:9 clip it will be displayed as widescreen, you should not see any distortion within your frame.
As the preview window is roughly 4:3 you will see the two black bars top and bottom.
These are not part of the frame but the unused portions of the preview window.

If your clip should contain a black border, it is hard to identify as it blends with the preview border. Both being black.

By changing the background colour File / Preferences you can identify the full frame, with or without a clip in the timeline.
With a clip in the timeline if you see a colour border your clip is not filling the frame.

If you drag a clip to the overlay track you will see your clip in miniture, a coloured border which is part of the frame and the two black borders.

If you render this frame to a new video clip it will contain the coloured background, as this is part of the frame.

Hope this helps

Trevor

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Max

Just a little more info re:- burning 16:9 format.

Make sure your project properties match your video file before selecting Share Create Disc. (16:9)

Video Studio will then use the default 16:9 menu templates, otherwise you will end up with the 4:3 templates.

The 16:9 menus can be identified in the library as having a ‘W’ in the name. ( like Clas01_ W )

Trevor

[maximus01can]

Hi Trevor,

Good point, when I did the authoring I don't think I did that and the motion menu's were in 4:3, but the truth is that it wasn't something that really jumped out at me when playing the DVD, but I guess it would make it look a little better with the 16:9 format in the menu's instead of 4:3. I'll keep that in mind when authoring the DVD project.

Cheer,
Max