[NDBounce]

Please don't laugh at the project I want to undertake.

I have a ton of movie trailers that I have downloaded in Quicktime format. I was thinking it would be cool to make a DVD of them. So I launched iDVD and sandly learned that iDVD does not create widescreen movies, it would distort all my trailers

So I was wondering if there was a free or relatively inexpensive way to create DVD-Player viewable DVD's of the trailers I have. Also, if I would need to convert them from Quicktime format please let me know how I would go about doing that as well.

If you have not guessed I am new to DVD creation, so more info is better than less...you can't possibly insult my intelligence in this field.

Thanks for the assistance!

Peace,

O
B unce!

[k_munic]

iDVD is only able to produce 4:3 DVDs, just DVDpro is able to set socalled "flags" that make the dvd standalone switch to the widescreen ratio.

it would be possible, to change your clips by adding black borders, so they have the correct aspect ratio for using in iDVD... lots of work.

qt is not a format, just a socalled container; which means, a qt/.mov can contain dozends of diffenret file formats, .avi, mpg2, mpg1, .dv et cetera.

maybe this results to difficulties producing a DVD with iDVD, e.g. an mpg file is playbackable with QT, but in the procvess of converting the the video into a dvd file format, the audio will get lost.

---------

for problem 1) maybe someon else in this forum can recommend a prg (sizzle?)...

for problem 2) just try, maybe you're lucky and most of your trailers are ok...

[Uncle Skeleton]

I once read a trick for getting iDVD to burn a widescreen disc. As I recall, you let iDVD finish encoding your assets, then go into the contents of the .dvdproj package, find the encoded MPEG files and edit the headers manually. I've never tried it, and obviously you have to be careful not to change anything in the project after you edit the files (or iDVD will discard them and encode new ones).

[spatterson]

I tried to burn a trailer once... they all were copyrighted and I was un able to bring them in as assets.