Exporting in 720x480 16:9, playback not so wide.

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Adrius

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I have a newbie question that many of you would probably be able to answer, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this issue.

So after reading about whether or not I should shoot in 16:9 or 4:3, I decided to switch to squeeze mode and do some test shots. I'm in Premiere and choose the DV 24p widescreen 16:9, 720x480. Everything is looking good, and wide. I export in 16:9 at 720x480 and play it back in quicktime and it doesn't look very wide or 16:9 like. It looks just like the other footage I shot in normal mode.

Now I know that its set to 720x480, so it will always hold those dimensions. Do I need to play with this? If so what is a common 16:9 ratio?

Do I need to add black bars even though I already shot in squeeze mode?

Hopefully someone can clear this up for me.

Thanks!

Adrius
 
So I tried exporting as an AVI and it seems to look better. It automatically adds letter boxing when I use full screen mode on my widescreen lcd. Is this a quicktime issue? I think I am still confused...
 
I have noticed that Quicktime Player assumes everything has square pixels and displays it that way. Try outputting as 873x480 with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.000 or "square."
 
Yeh, QT player shows 4:3 or 16:9 both as 1:1 pixels. Not a good way to watch your footage. Windows Media Player usually gets the aspect ratio right, but sometimes looks like crap. I usually just watch playback in my NLE, then go out to DVD. If I need some web deliverable, I convert to Windows Media, but you could convert to MP4 or something, at which point you'll need to resize to the correct size in square pixels.
 
Joshua Provost said:
If I need some web deliverable, I convert to Windows Media, but you could convert to MP4 or something, at which point you'll need to resize to the correct size in square pixels.
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Similar to what David mentioned above about changing the resolution to 873 x 480 and in square pixels?

If I do this will it still play fine in wmp?

Thanks for helping out a learner.
 
Well, when you go to the web, oftentimes you don't go full resolution, but the principle is the same, you have to figure out what the square pixel res is. For instance, you might output a 360*202, for a medium size, or 720*404.
 
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