Comments

Former user wrote on 2/20/2004, 10:25 AM
720 x 480 is the Standard size of a DV video. The reason it is not 4 x 3 is based on horizontal vs. square pixels. There is a lot of information on the web about this (and in these forums). If you are going to be watching on your computer, you need to render to 640 x 480 in order to see a correct aspected picture.

Dave T2
dbchristensen wrote on 2/20/2004, 10:32 AM
Dave,

I understand that... I don't show 640X480 as an option. I'm wondering if that's a video card issue or is there somewhere in movie studio that I can "force" that setting?

Dean
Former user wrote on 2/20/2004, 11:02 AM
Sometimes it is limited by the codec. A DV AVI will always be 720 x 480. What format or codec are you trying to use?

Dave T2
Chienworks wrote on 2/20/2004, 11:53 AM
Media Player 9 takes the pixel aspect ratio into account and will play a 720x480 DV file on the computer screen correctly so that it looks 4:3* instead of 3:2. I do, however, usually render MPEG-1 files to 640x480 instead of 720x480 so that they will play properly on older versions of Media Player.

* well, actually, for tedious reasons, it's 4.090909...:3.
dbchristensen wrote on 2/20/2004, 3:18 PM
I'm not sure... when I go to capture, I go to the capture properties. In there, there is a place to set the output size. My only options there are 720X480 and 352X240. After I've captured the video and go to "make movie", I don't see anywhere to set the output again. I've tried mpg, avi and q-time. All give me the 720X480 ratio.

My final "viewing" is on a 9 x 12 screen. Would really like to fill it and not have it show in "letterbox".

Help!
Chienworks wrote on 2/20/2004, 3:44 PM
If you go to advanced render and click the Custom button you'll be able to select "Custom size" and enter any size you wish, more or less.