Aspect ratio problem

[Whatever_works]

Apparently during my vacation in Thailand/Cambodia my friend?,
had a habit of switching my sony PC101 camera back and forth from full screen to wide screen
when I wasn't watching.
It's not something you would necesarily be aware of unless you checked the settings.

So now I have a mixed batch of shots. I had started out with the project set up for a full screen size (adobe2.0). I am now wondering if it would be possible to in making a DVD to have the first 2 chapters in full screen and the third in wide screen ? Most of the third chapter has already been shot wide screen so thats why I would render it that way.

Any sugestions beside beating my friend senseless ?

[thecoalman]

You need authoring software that supports multi VTS. DVD Workshop is one application that will do it. DVD Lab Pro is another.

Either would require you split the 16:9 and 4:3 into seperate files.

[guns1inger]

It is actually possible, although I'm not sure how it is done.There is a feature on the special edition of Chicago that is a single title, but somehow encoded with an Aspect Ratio flag that switched between full and widescreen throughout. A real pain in the arse. I don't know of a software encoder than can do this, or a program that can patch the headers like this after the fact. I don't know how sits as far as the spec goes. In the IFO the title is tagged as 16:9.

In your case, I would simply reframe the 4:3 scenes to sit inside a 16:9 frame and encode the whole lot as 16:9.

[Whatever_works]

You need authoring software that supports multi VTS. DVD Workshop is one application that will do it. DVD Lab Pro is another.

Either would require you split the 16:9 and 4:3 into seperate files.

Thanks for that I'm going to delve into those a bit now.
By the way I live in Banff , which historically started as a town called "Anthracite" http://www.ghosttownpix.com/alberta/anthra.html

[thecoalman]

I have a older version of DVD Workshop but the directions should be about the same, it's actually quite simple. Export each segment from your editor as either 16:9 or 4:3 MPEG, I'm not familiar with Premiere so I don't know exactly how you go about it. Anyhow what you want is compliant file to import into DVD Workshop. The important thing is to look in the help menu to find where the "do not convert compliant files" option is and check it. Burn away....

It won't convert the files and it will set the aspect for each clip according to whatever you have set it at when you exported it from Premiere.

It's not cheap but it does have a 30 day trial, not sure what the limitations are for the trial.