PAL anamorphic movie to NTSC .m2v – resize settings? - Compression Techniques

Dima Venkov
February 20, 2009 at 9:48 am

update: tried 720×406 – wrong aspect ratio
Dima Venkov
February 20, 2009 at 10:13 am

I see that After Effects has an NTSC D1 Widescreen Square Pixel preset 865×486 – is this the the resize settings I should apply in Episode?
Daniel Low
February 20, 2009 at 1:12 pm

Episode has a bunch of presets for Standards conversion, have you tried these?

720×480
Maintain proportions with None (Distort)
Source Display Aspect ratio – Pass through or force it by using ‘assume’

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Dima Venkov
February 20, 2009 at 3:47 pm

tried that – but the m2v comes out 4×3 squeezed horizontally. The 846×486 also comes out 4×3 and is not recognized by DVD Studio Pro. What the…?
If Toast can make an NTSC DVD from a PAL movie with just one click, Episode should definitely be able to do that too, ain’t it?
Daniel Low
February 20, 2009 at 4:06 pm

What are you using to view the m2v?

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Dima Venkov
February 20, 2009 at 4:13 pm

I imported it into DVD Studio Pro, viewed it in Mpeg Streamclip, and as preview in finder (space bar) – looks the same.

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