• Adobe After Effects

  Square Pixel

  Posted by Samuel Jacques on September 16, 2008 at 1:43 am

  hello.
  I know this has probably been asked before.
  But I don’t seem to totally understand the principle and I’d like to make sure I’m right on this.

  I need to do an animation in after effects and then I need to burn a typical dvd movie (with menu). That dvd will be seen on a computer screen.

  My guess would be to make my comp. with the preset “NTSC D1 Square Pixel”, 720×540.. so that nothing is stretched 10%.
  But, does that mean if I read the dvd on a tvscreen, the video would be streched ?

  So if I don’t want the whole thing to be stretched on a tvscreen, I need to chose “NTSC DV”, 720×480 nonsquarepixel?

  …
  Or I am totally wrong ?

  thanks in advance.
  sam

  Samuel Jacques replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Darby Edelen

  September 16, 2008 at 5:18 am

  My recommendation would be to use the NTSC DV preset (720×480) throughout your workflow. DVD emulators on PCs are expecting to get DVDs that were created for viewing on a TV, and they’ll know how to handle them.

  Darby Edelen
  
  NVIDIA
  Santa Clara, CA
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  Samuel Jacques

  September 17, 2008 at 12:43 am

  hello
  thanks for the advice.. but it still don’t work. It still look stretched when I playback on a computer when I burn a DVD with the DV preset.
  I burnt it with Toast Titanium (osx).
  I don’t know if it’s the way I render my animation or the way I burn the DVD.
  I have tried to burn a dvd with this preset “NTSC D1 Square Pixel” and it showed up well on computer screen.
  So, since my dvd will probably be only read on a computer.
  Is it ok to use this preset?

  thanks!
  sam
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  Darby Edelen

  September 17, 2008 at 4:31 am

  It sounds like whatever you’re burning the footage with is treating it strangely. How are you encoding to MPEG-2?

  If it works the way you’re doing it, then I guess you should keep doing it that way 🙂 but something seems off about it

  Darby Edelen
  
  NVIDIA
  Santa Clara, CA
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  Samuel Jacques

  September 17, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  Hello
  Thanks for your help Darby!

  I finally get it to read correctly after burning.
  I was just rendering my animation in quicktime with the default setting.
  This time, in the video output, format options, I have switch to “DV/DVCPRO – NTSC”. I burnt that video and it works.

  Is it better to use mpeg2? If yes, is there a special preset to chose?

  Thanks alot
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  Samuel Jacques

  September 17, 2008 at 11:43 pm

  oh ok! I will do that way then.
  thanks alot for this precious advice Dave!

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