Jim,

Wow , creating a DVD with mixed aspect radios that can change from 16:9 to 4:3 depending of the chapter, will be nice, but I’m afraid it’s not possible with PD, or at least I don’t know about any program that can do that.

You may only select 16:9 or 4:3 in your project, but you can mix any type of aspect radio movies, but the produced result will depends of your original project aspect radio. For example if you use 16:9 in your project, the result will be that the 16:9 clip will play in full widescreen and the 4:3 clip will play with black borders on the vertical sides of the image. By the other hand if you use 4:3 in you project, the 16:9 will play with black borders on the horizontal sides of the images and the 4:3 clip will play in full screen mode.

Cheers

You can. Choose 16:9 for the project settings and the 4:3 video will be converted to 16:9 with black bars.

EDIT: Looks like I type too slow. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

Hi,
Thanks for the insight, I didn't think I could but rather than go through the process of creating the disk only to be disappointed.
The other queary I have in regards to the last post where the project at 16:9 plays at 16:9 the videos that at 4:3 aspect ratio and imported they will not be stretched to fit the 16:9 (( and grossly distorted), they will just have the Black borders? Which would be acceptable if the quality is kept rather than resampled to the full screen.
I hope this question is understandable LOL
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Quote: ..if you use 16:9 in your project, the result will be that the 16:9 clip will play in full widescreen and the 4:3 clip will play with black borders on the vertical sides of the image...

Jim (now it’s clear your question LOL ).

The 4:3 would have only the black borders and not will be stretched. I have created an example for you:
Create two 1 sec clips from nature.mpg (one with 1280x720 16:3AR and one with 640x480 4:3AR), then start a new project in 16:3 inserting this two clips in the timeline and the result is attached here.

Note: I have created the result example with low bit rate just to produce a short file to attach.
Cheers

Hi Nicolas,
Thanks..that is what I am after...what I have is some old VHS footage of my daughters wedding, and some photo's, and now I have some footage taken with a Samsung Memory card camcorder and I wanted to create a DVD compilation, but as the old VHS is not the best quality to start I wanted to retain as much quality as I can. The Samsun (altho' not High definition is acceptable.
JimM
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