EricJoseph opened this issue on Jan 14, 2012 · 16 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 16 January 2012 at 4:26 PM
Quote - When I started with video standard American broadcast standard or dvd was 720 x 480 (540 for square pixels) . With higher definition tvs you can go larger or just use whatever you like if its for use only on a PC. again www.videohelp.com will have the standards.
The bigger your images the longer a render will take , multiplied by the number of frames of course. I try to keep things small because my computer is single processor and low memory.
some standards are:
1080p (1920×1080 progressive scan)
720p (1280 x 720)
480p (720 x 480)
if you are making dvds you need to check what your software will author.
Virtual Dub didn't like a movie I had that was 720 x 400. It insisted on stretching the size to 720 x 480, so it had horizontal lines added. I try to get sources at 720 x 480 ratio if I plan to save in DivX of AVIs using Virtual Dub. Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12 had no problem saving the 720 x 400 source to MPEG-4 for QuickTime. It kept the ratio the same. And MPEG-4 is about the same compression as DivX (file size-wise).