Trying to help a customer, and finding myself in unfamiliar territory.
We manufacture DVD's... don't really author them.
Customer asked us to take their video and create a simple menu. Easy enough... so I thought!
The DVD was provided in 1920 x 1080, 29.97 fps.
They want a SD DVD.
Each of the chapters was provided in a seperate Quicktime file.
We import the files as assets into Encore, and then place them in a 16:9 timeline, everything seems fine.
Menues work, no problem.
When we burn the DVD, however, and play it on a standard TV we loose video on both sides.
Obviously, the video is outside of the safety zone.
So, we went into Premier, loaded a file, and then manually resized the video so that it fit into the safety zone.
This seems to make it play properly on a standard 4:3 TV, and we will be testing to see how it works on a widescreen TV tonight.
Is this the right approach... to resize it in Premier?
Seems like a lot of work; especially since the videos are already in the right aspect ratio, etc. Isn't their some easier way to do it in Encore?