If you've ever tried to get iDVD 5 to burn an anamorphic DVD from a widescreen source other than iMovieHD, you know it doesn't work. If you import the movie into iDVD, the app will treat it as a 4:3 movie instead of a 16:9, meaning your beautiful aspect ratio will be turned into a tall, skinny mess on most consumer DVD players.
iDVD 5 supports anamorphic material when it comes from iMovie HD, however if you try and import a Final Cut movie into iMovie before sending it to iDVD, you'll find the same problem: namely that iMovie now thinks your source is 4:3. Some people have suggested fairly long and complicated solutions to this problem involving editing the MPEG2 stream encoded on the DVD image, and reburning your disk. This, it goes without saying, is a royal pain in the booty.
I've found a fairly simple work-around for the problem: the basic idea is to trick iMovie HD into thinking it has already encoded your source, and then feed your iMovie project to iDVD. The result works beautifully. Here's what you do:
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