16:9 Pan Scan or Letterbox or Both ?????

i am helping a friend make a dvd and the video was shot in 16:9
in DVDSP do i select...
16:9 Pan-Scan
16:9 Letterbox
16:9 Pan-scan & Letterbox
???

we have no clue the difference between them
thanks a lot

24" iMac and G4 Powerbook, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on May 15, 2008 8:00 AM

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May 15, 2008 11:03 AM in response to The TonyTony

ap_TonyTony wrote:
16:9 Pan-scan & Letterbox does work

16:9 Pan-scan & Letterbox will work just fine. If the view chooses to view a 16:9 piecce of footage in the pan & scan mode on a 4:3 screen it will show a center cut of the footage.


I would consider that to be "not working". It should not be cropping off the left and right sides of the image on a 4:3 screen. And if it does, it should pan to show the action that might be going on, but it doesn't do that either. So I would say it is not working. Stick with 16:9 Letterbox.

Jul 1, 2008 4:06 PM in response to Will Clark

Hi guys,

My problem is that I captured all my footage already in 16:9 letterboxed and when I burn a DVD of my project with DSP 4 and play it on my HDTV it still letterboxes the image not only creating bars on the top and bottom but on the right and left side as well, thus not showing my video in my HDTV's full screen. Can anyone help me?

If I turn on the anamorphic settings in the FCP 6.04 sequnce and or in DSP 4, the image does fill my HDTV screen but it squahes it, with bottom and top letterbox bars still showing.

I'd appreciate a response back to my email in case I can't find this thread again:

robertomena2000@hotmail.com

Thanks!

Jul 6, 2008 5:30 PM in response to betomena

Sorry Robert,

But if you shot your footage in "16:9 Letterbox", that means you've got 4:3 footage, and there's nothing you can do except reshoot with the proper aspect.

In order to get full screen on 16:9 TV's, you'll need to acquire in 16:9 Anamorphic.

Rule of all thumbs for shooting wide: Never let your camera or editing system letterbox. That's the job only of the DVD player while displaying the wide footage on 4:3 TV's.

Take care,

Trai

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Trai Forrester
TFDVD Research Labs
DVD Verification, Proofing, Pre-mastering

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