Aspect ratio problems with Power Producer 2 - Club CDFreaks

Talosian · 14-12-2006

I'm using Power Producer 2 which works for my purpose. I d/l a movie in .avi and then produced a DVD. OK, it took forever but I was in no rush.

The problem is that the people are all tall and thin (like I wish I was) as is everything else.

I'm figuring this has something to do with the aspect ration when I play it on the TV from my standalone DVD player since on the computer, it shows normal.

If anyone knows the program, I would appreciate it if they would tell me in detail how to correct the problem step by step (screen by screen?).

Many thanks.

*Mr. Belvedere* · 14-12-2006

It seems a serious limitation of the product.

From: http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=..._PowerProducer

Quote:

There seems to be 2 serious limitations with this software.

1. Where is the option to preserve a 16:9 widescreen Aspect Ratio (ie. if that is the Aspect Ratio of your source file)?

The program seems to automatically author all output to 4:3, irrespective of the source file's aspect ratio ... which would be ludicrous if that is the case.

Read this Review of v2:
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/multimedia/p...ducer/1000953/

The comment of particular concern is:
"Another thing that surprised me was that you don't seem to be allowed to flag your recordings as 16:9 so that widescreen recordings can be made to play in letterbox mode."

... which means that any DVD created by this software from a 16:9 (widescreen) source file will be squashed horizontally and stretched vertically.

2. This Software doesn't seem to allow elementary streams (ie. .m2v files etc.) to be imported - which is the basis of any good authoring application.

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Talosian CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 97	Aspect ratio problems with Power Producer 2 <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> I'm using Power Producer 2 which works for my purpose. I d/l a movie in .avi and then produced a DVD. OK, it took forever but I was in no rush. The problem is that the people are all tall and thin (like I wish I was) as is everything else. I'm figuring this has something to do with the aspect ration when I play it on the TV from my standalone DVD player since on the computer, it shows normal. If anyone knows the program, I would appreciate it if they would tell me in detail how to correct the problem step by step (screen by screen?). Many thanks.

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