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Sky+ to DVD via iMovie

  • 01-08-2011 9:30am
    #1
    Mizu_Ger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭


    Looking for some help here.

    I am trying to free up space on my Sky+ box by copying some programs to DVD. I have tried connecting the analogue out of the Sky+ to my MacBook Pro via an ADVC-55 A/D video converter and then recording with iMovie. However, all the widescreen programs appear squashed horizontally on the computer (like an anamorphic DVD). I can't get a picture setting on the TV to correct this and expand the picture.

    Has anyone done this successfully?


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  • #2
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Had a similar issue recently. Check out Arts>Audio-Video Editing Forum. Also have a read of this from Apple. It's about NTSC but the principles are the same.

    Ken


  • #3
    Mizu_Ger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Mizu_Ger


    ZENER wrote: »
    Had a similar issue recently. Check out Arts>Audio-Video Editing Forum. Also have a read of this from Apple. It's about NTSC but the principles are the same.

    Ken

    Thanks. I'll have a look through them.


  • #4
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    All TV is transmitted "squished" at 720x576 pixels, but those pixels aren't square, they're rectangular, giving you skinny pictures. It's your tv which reinterprets it back to widescreen. Perhaps there's a setting in iMovie which instructs it to reinterpret the material as widescreen? Don't have iMovie handy, I'm on the smartphone. H


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