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864×486
I’m using AE for a project that is going to be showing 16×9 LCD. Do I use 864×486 as a seting with square pixels or non – square pixels. The final project will be on a DVD.
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Use square pixels for 864×486 for your comps, then render720x486 non-square pixels for output.
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why would I have to render 720×486 non-square for the output? what would this do?
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since the destination is an ntsc dvd, the footage must conform the an ntsc standard, either 720×480, 0.9 par (4:3 aspect) or 720×480, 1.2 par (16:9 aspect).
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Not to create more confusion but you can also work at 854×480 in square pixel and not worry about the 6 lines that will get cropped in DVD compression. If going to certain video editors you may need to squeeze it to 720×480. I will often put the 854×480 video into Apple Compressor and let the MPEG2 compression deal with it. Then just bring that file into DVD Studio Pro. With other software the workflow might be a bit different but shouldn’t be too far off.
– Adam
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if I render in AE 864×486 and then bring into Commressor and use 16:9 2pass the burn a DVD in DVD sudio pro as 16:9 , will this footage play properly on a 16:9 tv and will it play proerly on a 4×3 tv i know it would be letter box on 4×3 would the aspect ratio be corrrect? if i dont render a 720×480 in AE?
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Hi Adam
what compression would you use in Apple Compresor? a 16:9 or a 4:3? i would need to make a dvd of this at the end. thanks. -
You only need to to go to 720×486 (or 720×480) if you are taking this into a edit situation before going to DVD. If you’re going straight to DVD, work in 854×480 square and send it out that way.
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In DVD Studio Pro you can set how it will playback on different ratio screens. 16:9 will play widescreen but on 4:3 it will play back letterboxed. That’s the way I do it. I think you can also tell it just to crop the middle on a 4:3 screen and not show the sides.
– Adam
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how do i telll DVD studio pro to playback differently on 16×9 or 4×3 screans?
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In DVD Studio Pro, flag the video for 16×9 playback. This will also letterbox it to 4×3 on those displays.
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