16:9 DV-to-DVD Conversion -- strange frame size with Canopus

[vcddude]

Hello all,

I've been using my Canopus ADVC-100 along with Scenalyzer Live to convert 16:9 camcorder video and 16:9 TiVo movies to DVD.

Discovered something odd with Scenalyzer Live (great proggy by the way!):

- When I "capture" the analog source to "Type 2" DV file I always get a 720x480 DV AVI file.
- When I "capture" the analog source to a "Canopus-compatible DV file" I always get a 856x480 DV AVI file.

It's my understanding that the ADVC-100 produces 720x480 DV AVI output, so why would the "Canopus-compatible DV file" report the frame size as 856x480?

I use both Canopus Procoder Express (PCE) and CCE 2.70 Basic. PCE will happily accept the so-called 856x480 file, but CCE will not accept it (it reports it as an unsupported frame size).

Does anyone have any idea why I see 2 different frame sizes here? and is there any benefit to using Canopus compatible DV files given the final conversion to DVD is 720x480?

Thanks,
Kevin

[vcddude]

whoops! I should have mentioned that I see this behavior when I set the 16:9 flag in Scenalyzer...

Kevin