Best 23.98 File for Hi Quality Full Screen Online Viewing ?

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Howard,
What ever you do for the web needs to go in Square pixels.
I guess you are working with NTSC DV Anamorphic.
If you want your movie being display properly in the web, you need to keep the 16×9 aspect ratio.
About the codec, the best option is h264. Set it with “Keyframes: Automatic”. Frame Reorder, Double Pass. data rate depending of the size you want output.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Howard Ferguson]

Hi Rafael,

Thanks very much for your response !

In the Sequence Settings window in Final Cut:

The Frame Size is 720 x 480
Aspect Ratio is NTSC DV (3:2)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC-CCIR 601/DV (…
Anamorphic 16:9 is NOT checked

Editing Timebase: 23.98

Quicktime Video Settings
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO- NTSC
Quality: 100%

Are these settings incorrect ?

It is curious, because the image in the Canvas is actually 640 x 480.
And it looks fine there.

And when I Export, I have to Custom change the size to be 640 x 480,
Otherwise, the result is a 720 x 480 Quicktime movie, which is warped out too wide . . .

Also, in the Final Cut Browser window,
all the video clips are listed as Frame Size 720 x 480.
All of the video clips are listed with a Pixel Aspect NTSC-CCIR 601
And all have Alpha: None/Ignore

It seems maybe I’ve got some settings wrong ?
Thanks for your help !

Howard

[Tom Brooks]

Your settings are fine in FCP. The pixels in your sequence are non-square as is normal for display on broadcast devices. But for display on computers, you need to compensate for the fact that pixels are square. You are correctly changing the image size to 640×480 on export.

Your original question is such a huge topic. There are a ton of variables involved in answering it. I suggest you find a site similar to what you’re after and try to discover how it was done. Flash video seems to be dominant nowadays and H.264 is currently the hot codec.