• Adobe After Effects

  720×486 DV/DVC Pro Conversion Issue

  Posted by Ryan Walker on September 27, 2013 at 9:11 am

  Currently I have a 1920×1080 Pro Res 422 master .mov @ 29.97 NTSC. I need to convert this to 720×486 NTSC 29.97 Quicktime.Mov. The compression it’s calling for is DV/DVCPro 25 Mbps. This is for a a stadium screen.

  I went into After Effects, created a NTSC D1 comp which gave me the 720×486 dimensions, along with selecting a pixel ratio of D1/DV NTSC.91. I scaled my pro res footage to the 720×486 comp size, and added a black solid for black bars on the top and bottom. All seemed well until it came time for selecting the correct codec. I went into output module settings/ format options, and got stumped. I tried an export with the DV25 NTSC format which I thought would work, however it kept resizing my footage back to DV/DVCPro 720×480, not 720×486.

  Any advice?

  After Effects CS5.5

  Ryan Walker replied 12 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tero Ahlfors

  September 27, 2013 at 10:46 am

  [Ryan Walker] “Any advice?”

  The DV codec is specced to 720×480. You can’t change it.
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  September 27, 2013 at 9:55 pm

  You need to convert to a DV codec or any other codec in a .mov container?

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Ryan Walker

  September 27, 2013 at 10:18 pm

  I brought it into Compressor and switched up the geometry and it output 720×486. I was a little unsure on the pixel aspect so I went with the NTSC CCIR 601/DV.

  I’m not doubting that the codec is specced to 720×480, however the stadium is calling for 720×486. Therfore I was worried the clip wouldn’t look right if I went with 720×480.

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