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Square Pixel
hello.
I know this has probably been asked before.
But I don’t seem to totally understand the principle and I’d like to make sure I’m right on this.I need to do an animation in after effects and then I need to burn a typical dvd movie (with menu). That dvd will be seen on a computer screen.
My guess would be to make my comp. with the preset “NTSC D1 Square Pixel”, 720×540.. so that nothing is stretched 10%.
But, does that mean if I read the dvd on a tvscreen, the video would be streched ?So if I don’t want the whole thing to be stretched on a tvscreen, I need to chose “NTSC DV”, 720×480 nonsquarepixel?
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Or I am totally wrong ?thanks in advance.
sam -
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My recommendation would be to use the NTSC DV preset (720×480) throughout your workflow. DVD emulators on PCs are expecting to get DVDs that were created for viewing on a TV, and they’ll know how to handle them.
Darby Edelen
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA -
hello
thanks for the advice.. but it still don’t work. It still look stretched when I playback on a computer when I burn a DVD with the DV preset.
I burnt it with Toast Titanium (osx).
I don’t know if it’s the way I render my animation or the way I burn the DVD.
I have tried to burn a dvd with this preset “NTSC D1 Square Pixel” and it showed up well on computer screen.
So, since my dvd will probably be only read on a computer.
Is it ok to use this preset?thanks!
sam -
It sounds like whatever you’re burning the footage with is treating it strangely. How are you encoding to MPEG-2?
If it works the way you’re doing it, then I guess you should keep doing it that way 🙂 but something seems off about it
Darby Edelen
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA -
Hello
Thanks for your help Darby!I finally get it to read correctly after burning.
I was just rendering my animation in quicktime with the default setting.
This time, in the video output, format options, I have switch to “DV/DVCPRO – NTSC”. I burnt that video and it works.Is it better to use mpeg2? If yes, is there a special preset to chose?
Thanks alot
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oh ok! I will do that way then.
thanks alot for this precious advice Dave!
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