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Best settings to render widescreen quicktime
I am trying to render my video as quicktime in widescreen. The input video is widescreen dv (720×480) and when i render and select quicktime it shows the right dimensions. but when i render and play it the quicktime player squeezes it to 4:3. I have quicktime video from my digital camera that plays widescreen.
Does anyone have advice on how to get it to render properly? Also, any advice on which compressor to use would be appreciated, there are a lot of choices, i selected motion jpeg a because my digicam uses motion jpeg and i want the file size to be fairly small (approx. 65Megs for 40 secs would be a good example). I also don’t know which audio settings to use. Again, I am not looking for the top quality, just good quality.
thanks for your help,
peter -
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One other note, i rendered it as mpeg2 and it rendered fine and played in windows media player as wide screen.
thanks,
peter -
Did some research and got help from someone at the website i am trying to upload to. It looks like my .mov videos are 848×480, essentially natively 16:9. The videos from my dv camera are 720×480, which is an aspect ratio of 1.5, not the 1.78 required for 16:9. But when i render the video as an mpeg2 it assigns the aspect ratio as 16:9, windows media player recognizes this and plays it properly. The website i upload to (and it looks like the quicktime player) only recognize the physical aspect ratio, and as a result shows a squeezed image (ignoring the specified ratio of 16:9). That explains why my .mov videos display properly and the vids from my dv camera don’t.
Question, is there a way to render the 720×480 video with a physical aspect ratio of 16:9? That would force the video to display properly everywhere. Otherwise i am going to be stuck hoping that evertime i try to play the videos somewhere new it recognizes the specified aspect ratio.
Sorry for all the posts and thanks in advance,
Peter -
I think what is missing from this equation is that the aspect ratio is something that the Player (whichever that is) uses to determine the aspect ratio of the pixels. I don’t think Quicktime recognises the aspect ratio data. In PPro when you import video you can change what aspect ratio is used by changing the “interpret footage” setting … this doesn’t change the size, just how it’s displayed. Windows Media Player uses the aspect ratio data, the Quicktime Player ignores it.
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Are you saying that if i change the interpret footage setting it would change the physical aspect ration, thereby making it play correctly in quicktime?
Thanks for the response and this is great news, I was afraid there would be no solution for this. Once again this forum proves extremely useful, I will try this when I get home from work tonight.
thanks again,
peter -
I tried what you suggested and changed the interpreted aspect ratio. The problem is in premiere the video looked fine, after apply this it was stretched, and the .mov output was more squeezed. I tried all kinds of combinations of interpreted aspect ratio and aspect ratio settings when rendering and none of them displayed the video properly in quicktime.
I looked at the mpeg2 video that rendered and plays successfully in media player (because it recognizes the preferred aspect ratio). but when I look at the properties of the video in wmp it says the aspect ratio is 4:3.
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
peter
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