Quality issues

[Jon Barrie]

In CS4 and CS5 square pixel PAL widescreen is no longer 1024×576 it is 1050×576. But if you want to maintain the pixel for pixel quality of the sequence and the final DVD resolution you should keep it in the Anamorphic Pixel Dimensions of 720×576 with a Pixel Aspect Ratio of D1/DV PAL Widescreen (which is something like 1.46).

– Jon Barrie 🙂

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net
http://www.suiteskills.com

[Andy Prada]

John is quite right, CS4/5 now use 1050×576 for imported graphics.

But I think Avid still uses 1024×576 if I’m not mistaken. Problem is – 1050 might be technically more accurate but it’s not absolutely 16:9. Unless you have lots of circles in your picture you won’t notice too much but I appreciate that, from a purists point of view Adobe have got it right.

[Carlos Angeli]

Hi. I redid the psd files in the same seuqence size using Photoshop DV presets. Back into Premiere created a new sequence (DV PAL widescreen) and put the imported PSD. Quality has improved, and process became simpler. Thank you so much to everyone for your answers.

Andy, thanks for taking the time to answer my post so many times. I really appreciate it.

[Andy Prada]

It is a pleasure and thank you! It’s always good when someone with a problem actually ‘closes’ a post when they have a satisfactory result. So many people simply take the advice and don’t feed back.