Lost in compression- 16×9 and 4×3…

[Jay Wolf]

Tom, I’m using Episode Pro. I’ll use wmv9 high quality and set it to 704×400 as suggested. Report back later because it’s time to hit the sack.

The AVI was a request from a client. Because he saw interlacing in another wmv I sent him, he asked for AVI. Probably thought it was more reliable… I’l talk him out of it.

Episode Pro by default deinterlaces the video when transcoding to .wmv so I guess it’s ‘just’ compression artifacts…

Thanks for helping out so far.

[Carlene]

Wow – how appropriate. I’m having a very similar problem.

We shot in HDV 1080i. Extremely odd final delivery format because it’s for a video billboard, they want square pixel uncompressed quicktime in this non-standard aspect ratio. (But I’ll probably have questions about that later on another topic.)

Right now I’m simply trying to create a decent quality web compressed version of the video that we edited in FCP for client approval. I keep getting the same problem. Doesn’t appear in 16:9 keeps showing up as 4:3.

I’ll try the solution with Quicktime Conversion and 704 x 400 pixels – but does this also compress for QT web streaming? Or preferably – I’d like to post this as a Flash video for them.

Any solutions?

[Jay Wolf]

Carlene, you’d be best off exporting a QT movie with current settings and then changing the width and height for that QT-file to a 16×9 aspect ratio. For instance 704×400, as you said.

Way to do this: open the QT Movie – go to Window – Show Movie Properties – click on where it says Video Track- click on Visual Settings and there you can enter the settings for the size in pixels.
For Flash I use Episode Pro.

Good luck,

Wolf