4:3 or 16:9 DVD?

[David Jimerson]

I just stared at your name, and the best answer that I can give you is that “Jim” stands out more than David. Maybe you should change your first name to Jim. LOL

My grandfather did that. Unofficially.

The difference in quality between shooting DVX 4:3 letterbox and 16:9 squeeze mode.

This brings me to another question. If I shoot 4:3 letterbox for a widescreen television, wont that letterboxed image just get stretched out on the 16:9 screen, or will it play with vertical lack bars on the sides of the image?

Well, there's the crux.

If you shoot letterbox, in order to make a widescreen DVD, you have to crop off the bars and render as widescreen, and the image will be stretched into 16:9.

Or, if you don't, you end up with the windowboxing you're describing, and no one wants that.

By cropping and uprezzing, you actually end up with slightly less resolution than you would have if you had shot squeeze.

Won't matter on a 4:3 TV.

The reason that I asked that was because I was under the impression that 24Pa would play with flicker on an interlaced television. Is that correct?

No flicker. The only issue is that if you play the tape back to a standard TV, with the 2:3:3:2 pulldown still inserted, you MIGHT get a slightly more pronounced strobe -- but not a flicker.

This isn't a problem for you at all, because once you edit in 24p, you can output any way you like.

24pA isn't meant to be watched; it's meant to be edited in 24p, then exported in a proper delivery format.

 

[evanesce]

Thank you, David. That was very helpful information. Do you have a site where I could look at some of your work?

 

[David Jimerson]

No, I don't really have much online.