What resolution to use?

choxie wrote on 5/31/2001, 10:14 PM

What would be the best project resolution for television? I seem to remember reading something about an aspect ration of 4:3, is this correct? What resolutions do you use?

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SonyEPM wrote on 6/1/2001, 8:42 AM

If you use the stock DV project template you will find that this works well for TV- less than 1% wider than perfect 4:3.

Its worth using the safe title grid just to be sure you critical titles and images aren't chopped-

choxie wrote on 6/1/2001, 11:59 PM

I see that it is 720x480. If I use a smaller resolution with a 4:3 ratio, say, 512x384, will it fill up the entire screen? I ask because video cd's use a smaller res, but I have not seen them play so I do not know if they fill up the entire screen.

SonyEPM wrote on 6/5/2001, 9:01 AM

VideoCD (using one of the MPEG templates) looks decent and is the correct aspect for TV. With any video format, compressed or not, there's a size/quality tradeoff, so a little experimentation factoring in delivery format capacity/ destination playback device/cost is required