I've been reading a bunch, and it's really difficult for me to absorb this, I can't see to get it:
I have a bunch of videos from my cousin's wedding captured from a Sony HandyCam in HD mode. They are 853x480, 29.97 FPS
I want to edit them in Premeire.
I want to burn them to a nicely authored DVD.
I (obviously) want the aspect ratio to work and look good no matter what TV it is played on. I know the bride & groom have an HD TV, and my grandmother has a ordinary TV.
So my questions are:
1) This video *is* HD right? I thought it was supposed to be 1440x1080, but this is the only video off the camera... The picture is very clear though.
2) What Project Settings do I use?
I could use NTSC 16:9, but this crushes the video horizontally in Premeire to 720x480 which made me think it was wrong.
I could alternatively use custom settings with 853x480 -> but this gives me output problems: I either use Raw AVI or DV to keep the video quality (any other codec goes to shit) -> but DV once again changes the resolution to 720.
Thanks in advance.
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Originally Posted by Aviewanew
2) For 853x480, 29.97 FPS use the wide DV project setting. Also encode to wide DVD settings. -
I'm trying the Adobe CS3 Beta, and Premiere Pro - I can't find Wide DV presets anywhere (tried google too).
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1) This video *is* HD right?
No, just regular old standard def, same as 16:9 resized DVD. It's sometimes called Enhanced Def.
I could use NTSC 16:9, but this crushes the video horizontally in Premeire to 720x480 which made me think it was wrong.
I don't use Premiers, but from your description, it's resizing to 720x480, which is what you want for DVD, followed by encoding for 16:9. Everyone is supposed to look tall and skinny at 16:9 720x480. After the encoding and authoring, when being played back as a DVD, it'll get resized back to your original 853x480 -
Originally Posted by Aviewanew
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Oh okay, I was looking for 853x480. I got it, thanks guys! I will take a trip back home to see what I can do about recapturing HD source from the miniDV discs.
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Originally Posted by Aviewanew
720x480 wide looks like this
Square pixel (853x480) looks like this
The same applies to HDV where the file is 1440x1080 (non-square pixels) but the player expands that out to 1920x1080 (square pixels). -
I went back to the discs - they're not MiniDV, they're DVDs, and the captured video is 1440x1080, but when i use the HandyCam program to convert, it shrunk it. But I found a way to work in the full resolution, so I'll hang on to the project files and hold out for a friend with a Blu-Ray or HD DVD Burner.
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