hi rick
ok, now we know a little bit more:
1. the lynda.com files are meant to be viewed on a computer, so they don't care
about the safe area.
2. you only want to watch the dvds on your own tv.
that makes things easier.
the lynda.com files seem to be flv with a mp4 codec.
i would throw them all into a free conversion program like xmedia-recode
(www.xmedia-recode.de), put a black border around them (under filters), resize
them to 720x480 with an aspect of 16:9 and render them as mpg2.
because that is what a dvd authoring program wants.
(i have just tried it, its easy, fast and works perfectly)
and about that "obscure parameter" that you are not seeing:
if you have a frame of 720x480 px which is completely filled with the picture
and another frame of 720x480 px which shows a smaller picture with a black
border, they have the same file stats, of course, because the file stats don't
care what the content of the picture is.
if you have a photograph of 8x10 inches and a polaroid of 3x4 inches which is
glued on a 8x10 black paper, they both fit perfectly in a 8x10 inches frame,
but they will look different.
hth chris
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1a Re: Premiere to Encore Question
Thu Jan 3, 2013 5:29 pm (PST) .
Posted by: "rick morris" radicalrick2003
Thanks everyone for your help.
Yes, Christoph, you have stated exactly what I am encountering. I brought
video directly into Encore and it went beyond the safe area guides. I burned
it anyway and played it on my Sony 27" TV. It happened to be a Lynda.com
tutorial and enough of the sides didn't display, so that it was useless. Then
as an experiment I brought it into Premiere and manually scaled it down to 80%
which was within the safe area guides, and rendered. Then I brought it into
Encore and it was now within the safe area guides. I burned it to disk and it
displayed perfectly on my TV. This got me curious, since all of the parameters
were the same in both files and I still don't know why they give me a different
result when scaled down with no obvious differences in the file stats. It must
be some obscure parameter that I am not seeing. So now if I want to produce a
watchable DVD I have to manually resize each video in Premiere so that it is
within the safe area guides, render, and then import to Encore. I was hoping
that this was a common, simple issue but it seems not. I guess for now I will
continue to first scale down the individual snippets of video to 80% in
Premiere, render, and import to Encore, although it is labor intensive and
frustrating.
Again, thanks to everyone for taking time and sharing your vast knowledge with
me. I now know more about the history of safe zones than I ever imagined I
would! If anyone has further ideas on how to accomplish my goal without the
hassle of manually scaling it and rendering please let me know. I have now got
a copy of DVD Studio Pro and am going to take a look at that. Thanks everyone.
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