The clue was provided when I tried the "came free with the burner" CyberLink Power Director 14 DVD LE edition (that doesn't burn to DVD media), just to see how its UI handled the same file. and it may go back to the rendering in Davinci Resolve. I may have solved my own problem (DVD file system encoding in progress).
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It is just the MP4 video content itself that Pinnacle is pillar boxing for some reason (and squishing).Ĭan someone who uses Pinnacle and has produced a proper 16:9 widescreen non-pillar boxed result, provide some insight on what I've got set up wrong or what I'm likely doing wrong here? Thing is the menus Pinnacle produces in 16:9 those are just fine and correct at 16:9 on playback. The tab settings in Pinnacle Studio I also double checked (don't think thats the problem as the pillar boxes show up farther upstream in the tab. The MP4 source material is (per Windows 10 details):
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In the and tabs, the timeline settings for this one long MP4 on the timeline are: I had thought of that and checked and set what I think are the correct settings to produce the 16:9 non-pillar boxed (ie widescreen) DVD. Now the natural question that pops up of course is: are all of the settings correct for the project. There is something in the authoring/production that Pinnacle is doing to force those in there. When I play the resulting exported video on the PC without burning it, it also has the black pillar boxes. I did that test just to be sure my DVD player wasn't set up wrong. When I plonk the resulting DVD that gets created by pinnacle in a player it has those black pillar boxes. (I've already burned 2 DVD media pointlessly, so I want to figure this out before trying again). When I have it then export to a DVD structure image, that has the black pillar boxes, so the view seems to correlate with what I get out at the end.
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Now changing to the sub-view instead, we get the black pillar boxing around the video:
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The view in the Pinnacle Studio (note the grey indicating the full extent of the video frame: Now I've imported that MP4 into Pinnacle Studio, plonked it on the timeline, create the chapter marks and DVD menus, but every single time, the produced MPEG2 it generates in its tab is pillar boxed, even though the source material is not. When playing that on my PC it looks fine: So in Davinci Resolve, I've rendered the 16:9 video to an MP4. Yes, Pinnacle Studio isnt the ideal solution, but I've rendered it in Davinci Resolve as a 16:9 and Davinci Resolve doesn't provide DVD/BD authoring to create a player playable solution with menus/chapters. I've been struggling with this really annoying issue for the past 2 day that I expect is surely down to me not setting some invisible to my eyes setting.