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DVCPROHD to Web Video
Hi,
I’m working with DVCPROHD footage at 720p60. This footage ultimately ends up being 480×320 flash videos for the web. The editor before me had the sequence settings as follows:
Frame Size: 720×480 NTSC DV (3:2)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC – CCIR 601/DV (DV 720×480)Compressor: DVCPROHD 720p60
I couldn’t figure out why the previous guy had his settings at 3:2 when they have to get converted to 4:3. However, After looking at the shooting set ups and some other aspects I realized that it does look better this way.
Finally, here’s my question:
Ultimately is there any significant problems with going through three levels of conversion? Ie. will this effect how the videos play on the web?
I ultimately want to restructure things so that we don’t go through this extra step, but for the time being it looks better, but if the internet quality would increase I might try and change things sooner.
Thanks so much!
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[Vicky Nelson] “I’m working with DVCPROHD footage at 720p60. This footage ultimately ends up being 480×320 flash videos for the web.”
You should export from the timeline as is and encode at a resolution of 480×270 otherwise the picture will look distorted.
no need to resize down to D1 first.
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That’s a silly and unnecessary workflow. Its adding too much work to your final output.
Its much easier to take your original DVCProHD 720p60 sequence and output it full size, then do your web video using Compressor to create a 480×270 video. Why do you want to make a letterbox Flash file? Its just wasted space and wasted file sizing.
Just make sure that you set Compressor for a 480×270 16×9 sizing. I do this type of work all of the time and have my saved settings in Compressor just for this. All I have to do is to drag and drop my web video setting to my DVCProHD video.
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Thanks for your responses!
I don’t want to make a letterbox flash file. What we were doing was in the 3:2 sequence, making the 16:19 footage fullsize so it fills the frame, essentially cropping off the edges.
If I output my sequence full size, how do i compress it in flash as 4:3 without distorting my image? The final output has to be 4:3 and I have no say in that. Is this possible?
I’m also working with a lot of photoshop graphics which is another problem of sizing and cropping and distorting.
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if it has to be 4:3 then you have to crop out the sides or
else it will look really goofy.look into the cropping settings in compressor for how to do it.
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