User Guide

82 Creating a Project
Working With Widescreen Video ( PE only )
Creating a widescreen (16:9 anamorphic) project is much the same as creating a
normal 4:3 project. DVDit! displays video and stills in letterbox format on the
Video Monitor’s main window, and you create menus and links just as you do
normally. Menus are displayed in 4:3 format, both in DVDit! and in the finished
presentation. (On a widescreen TV, menus will have letterbox mattes at the left
and right sides.)
When a viewer watches a widescreen DVDit! project on a 4:3 television, the DVD
player setup determines how the TV displays the video:
• If the player is set to automatic letterbox, the video appears with letterbox
mattes at the top and bottom
• If the player is set to automatic pan & scan, the left and right sides of the video
are cropped. (Widescreen video is 25% wider than 4:3, so 12.5% of the picture
is lost from each side)
• If the player thinks the TV is a widescreen model, the video will be squeezed
horizontally to fit the TV screen
The online document Preparing Files for DVDit! (Preparing Files (Eng).pdf) lists
the video and image sizes required for widescreen projects. This document is in the
Documentation folder in the DVDit! folder on your PC.