Power Producer 3

[RED SHIFT1]

I have been using Power Producer for the first time today. Just learning by trial and error. Right now the worst problem I have is this: the original video footage was shot with a Panasonic SDR-H80 in the 16:9 ratio. When I use PP3 to burn the edited footage onto a DVD, it alters the image to fit a regular square tv. It really makes the image look strange. Is there a way to fix this?

[Bjs]

Seems all 16:9 is treated as 4:3 ... junk the application it's out dated

To deal with MOD

1: Obviously you have read the manual ... content on system
2: Download and install MPEG StreamClip
3: Use MPEG StreamClip to convert the MOD files to something a better video editor can use

Dvdflick should do the rest or any other editor which supports direct to dvd ... just avoid using pp3 ... it was up to v5

[RED SHIFT1]

Well, I downloaded both DND FLick and MPREG Streamclip. I used the DVD Flick and opened a new project, added titles, and added disc menus. When I started the menus stuff a screen came that said:

"Rendering Menus"

That was at 9AM. At 7:45 PM it is still "Rendering menus" Is this normal? I stopped the program.

[Bjs]

No, but it could be any number of things which could have contributed to it stalling so long , normally it dosent take very long to do the menu

Did you use mpeg streamclip to convert the files before dvdflick was started ?

If so, what did you choose as output type ?