• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  difference between sd and dv. . .

  Posted by Alexander Gao on February 22, 2006 at 10:51 pm

  What is the difference between sd and dv? Isn’t all sd and dv 720 x 480, or what? I’m a little confused.

  Alexander Gao

  “When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”

  Graeme Nattress replied 20 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  February 22, 2006 at 11:10 pm

  Basically:

  SD is Beta, Digibeta, MII…small variety of other formats. Both analogue and digital. In the NTSC world it is 720×486, 4:2:2 colorspace

  DV is a compressed digital format. Compressed 5:1, 720×480 with a color space of 4:1:1.

  Shane

  Alokut Productions
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Graeme Nattress

  February 22, 2006 at 11:41 pm

  SD is “Standard Def”. People often mean it to mean uncompressed standard def video. If it isn’t high def, it’s SD. SD comes in many falavours, all compressed to some extent though.

  Graeme

  – http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

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