[patriot]

Hey everyone, very new to video editing. have a question....my camcorder has 2 film settings, 16x9 and 4x3. I shot my movie in 16x9, imported it to imovie,selected DV widescreen when asked,upon opening Imovie. Created my movie and imported (Shared) it to Idvd. When previewing on both apps it shows the movie as 16x9 full image, with black bars on top and bottom. i burn the disc with Idvd, play it on my mac and its a lovely 16x9 movie, again, with black bars on top and bottom. However, when i bring it to ANY dvd player on ANY tv its a 4x3 image and the movie looks a bit elongated, or stretched, I have checked every preference on my dvd players and players of 6 friends, they are all set to output video in 16x9 format, however the movie is always displayed in a 4x3 format instead. am I doing something wrong when importing the Imovie to Idvd? or during the burn process? again all the dvd players are set to output at 16x9, all other dvd movies are displayed properly with bars on top and bottom. any help would be greatly appreciated.By the way it a NTSC as i live here in the states. and of course my monitor and tv are 4:3

regards

[Macadvo]

Not knowing which camera you have it's a bit hard to answer your question accurately but in all likliehood yours is a camera that isn't shooting in "real" 16:9 mode. It is probably shooting in 4:3 mode and merely adding black bars top and bottom. The solution here is to import in 4:3 and then crop he black bars out and enlarge the remaining picture to 16:9 whilst also changing the aspect ratio of the film.

That sounds incredibly complicated but is quite easy to do in FCP, not sure about FCE or iMovie though.