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16:9 composites
I have a job where I am to build some graphics for use on plasma screens in the 16:9 aspect ratio. Most of the material will be stills and text and the output media will be DVD. Should I build it vertically squeezed or can I do the whole thing letter boxed? What would you suggest as a work flow?
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Work in a 16:9 sequence setting I’d think… Works great.. Using Panasonic’s HD codec might be just the ticket for you too if you don’t have a capture card, nor the drives to play uncompressed HD. The resulting DVD will look better than if you’d used say an anamorphic DV sequence setting. But in any event, don’t letterbox it, as it will have to be stretched then to fill a 16:9 plasma and will artifact pretty badly. Video doesn’t enlarge very well… really perfect for graphics and text projects for sure. I’ve done a couple of them this way now, and the client was very happy indeed. Even though DVD SP will be downconverting this to SD, I’m convinced it looks better than had I started in SD in the first place.
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