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Make anamorphic DVDs with iDVD5 and Final Cut source
Authored by: leebennett on May 05, '05 10:44:38AM

Have you actually burned and viewed a DVD after performing these steps? The MPEG stream editing you may have seen is a fix for a problem that occurs in iDVD, not iMovie. I can get 16:9 content into iDVD 5 just fine, and iDVD previews it properly. The problem is that when you burn it, it's still goobered into 4:3 dimensions. The reason is that iDVD 5 seems to have a bug that one tiny little binary bit is enabled which is the flag to "Prohibit widescreen or letterbox mode" and it doesn't matter whether you actually burn a DVD or save a DVD Image.

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Make anamorphic DVDs with iDVD5 and Final Cut source
Authored by: gentryunderwood on May 06, '05 01:56:30PM

yes -- i have tried it on both the internal apple DVD player and an external sony DVD player. both work great!

as far as I know this is the only way around the anamorphic problem on stand-alone DVD players without having to hack the hex code on the disk image.



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