Why the bars on 16:9 HD product?

[gorldon10]

I just received my new S2000 and I'm trying to learn it asap. Recorded via firewire my HD footage - project setting format was HD. Watched the first burned dvd - a "practice" project - on my flatscreen 16:9 HD tv with a Sony dvd player. Was surprised to see the 2 bars on the picture - expected picture to fill the screen. The scene bin and storyboard clips also have the 2 bars. Is this normal? Is there something I did wrong? Any way to correct this? I have other questions but thanks for any help on this one.

[LouBruno]

Make sure your settings in ARABESK are 16:9.

[gorldon10]

thanks, Lou, for your help. I looked in my Arabesk 4 for aspect settings - under miscellaneous there's settings but none for aspect. In the edit menu there're settings - menu format - then either 4:3 or 16:9 anamorphic. I set it to the latter from previous 4:3. . I added a short practice film, rendered, and written to dvd. Unfortunately, no change. Playing thru my dvd player there were the 2 bars again. The only place it filled the screen was clicking on play in the "film-info". There my film filled the screen but a dvd film I added to the project (that is 16:9 and was converted to HD when I moved via clipboard to my project) did not fill the screen in the film-info playback area. Also, why are both films showing the 2bars in the scene bin and edit/storyboard clips?? Maybe that's normal for HD? But, I thought Arabesk would remove the bars. They don't in this case. thanks

[LouBruno]

OK.....try this. Hopefully this is the situation.

If you downconverted to ARABESK from a HD project 16:9 or even "shot" in SD 16:9, the entire widescreen of your HDTV should be filled UNLESS you have the DVD players menu set to LETTERBOX.

I am assuming you downconverted to ARABESK and did NOT change the setting to AVCHD DISC?

Me thinks that is what is causing the display to appear as you wrote.

[gorldon10]

thanks much Lou! The dvd player was in 4:3 letterbox. All's well. Funny that other dvds - incl ones made on the Avio - all filled the 16:9 screen but a HD dvd from the S2000 didn't?

[LouBruno]

Glad I could help and all turned out well.

thanks much Lou! The dvd player was in 4:3 letterbox. All's well. Funny that other dvds - incl ones made on the Avio - all filled the 16:9 screen but a HD dvd from the S2000 didn't?