I'm using AE for a project that is going to be showing 16x9 LCD. Do I use 864x486 as a seting with square pixels or non - square pixels. The final project will be on a DVD.
Re: 864x486 by Kevin Camp on Jun 12, 2008 at 8:01:10 pm
since the destination is an ntsc dvd, the footage must conform the an ntsc standard, either 720x480, 0.9 par (4:3 aspect) or 720x480, 1.2 par (16:9 aspect).
Re: 864x486 by Adam Portnoy on Jun 12, 2008 at 8:37:00 pm
Not to create more confusion but you can also work at 854x480 in square pixel and not worry about the 6 lines that will get cropped in DVD compression. If going to certain video editors you may need to squeeze it to 720x480. I will often put the 854x480 video into Apple Compressor and let the MPEG2 compression deal with it. Then just bring that file into DVD Studio Pro. With other software the workflow might be a bit different but shouldn't be too far off.
if I render in AE 864x486 and then bring into Commressor and use 16:9 2pass the burn a DVD in DVD sudio pro as 16:9 , will this footage play properly on a 16:9 tv and will it play proerly on a 4x3 tv i know it would be letter box on 4x3 would the aspect ratio be corrrect? if i dont render a 720x480 in AE?
Re: 864x486 by John Kaley on Jun 12, 2008 at 9:58:03 pm
You only need to to go to 720x486 (or 720x480) if you are taking this into a edit situation before going to DVD. If you're going straight to DVD, work in 854x480 square and send it out that way.
Re: 864x486 by Adam Portnoy on Jun 13, 2008 at 1:44:23 am
In DVD Studio Pro you can set how it will playback on different ratio screens. 16:9 will play widescreen but on 4:3 it will play back letterboxed. That's the way I do it. I think you can also tell it just to crop the middle on a 4:3 screen and not show the sides.
