DVD widescreen..?

Question

I made a short movie and after editing it using Adobe Premiere, I got the final cut in AVI format with the correct ratio (16:9).. Then I convereted it to DVD.. When I play the DVD on my PC the ratio gets distorted and never appears as widescreen in most video players such as (Realplayer or Winamp).. It only can play correctly (16:9) if I chosen to open it with "Windows Media player classic".. The problem is that I'm having a screening for the movie using a DVD player set, and when I tested it the ratio gets distorted and not widescreen. Is there any settings that I can adjust in the DVD player to let it read the movie correctly in widescreen??

Answer 1

You must encode your final project to a 16:9 mpeg2-DVD file. Then, whenever you are burning the DVD, you should have the option as to whether your project will be 4:3 or 16:9. To make the DVD play in 16:9, your project must be in 16:9.

Answer 2

What program are you using to write the DVD? That program should indentify the format of the original video, and set the proper "flags" so that the reader drive will know how to display it. Check to see if your DVD-writing program has an options menu (sometimes "advanced options") which will allow you to specify that this is a widesrceen or anamorphic DVD.

In addition, there are settings in a DVD player that will tell it how to handle anamorphic material. In the setup menu there should be a place that asks you how you want that material handled; you can specify "letterboxed" or "cropped". But these settings only work if the recorded DVD has the anamorphic flags set properly.