Premiere Pro 2.0 and widescreen

[GGab]

I've got a Panasonic GS-500 that I shoot in widescreen with. I seem to capture the video in widescreen just fine and when I preview the video in Premiere it seems to be widescreen but when I do a DVD Layout and compile it the DVD doesn't end out widescreen. When I preview the DVD layout it's in widescreen. Any tips on how I can get this in widescreen? When I use TMPGEnc DVD author it works fine.

[guns1inger]

RTM ? My understanding of Premiere Pro's authoring is that is it pretty basic and really just to get previews onto disc, not do final disc creation. That's why they sell Encore.

[GGab]

The DVD authoring of Premiere Pro is basic but doesn't mean that it can't burn a widescreen DVD. It has built in menu templates and everything. I'm sure there is just some setting that I'm not doing right. And yes, I have searched the internet and the help for an answer.

[guns1inger]

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=37104
http://www.dvdcreation.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=65853

to get you started, although neither (and none of the others I found) specifically address widescreen authoring. What I could find seemed to imply that it comes from either your project settings or encoder settings. I assume you have told Premiere that this is a 16:9 project and are encoding as 16:9 ?

[GGab]

I appreciate the links. I'll check them out. As far as I know I double checked the 16:9 settings when encoding and authoring the DVD.

[guns1inger]

Worst case, you could use IFOEdit or IFOAR2WS to change the AR flags back to 16:9