Resolution for Widescreen DVD

[Infrared digital]

Much appreciated info !

Thanks

n

[Da_elf]

actually i didnt notice much difference in quality between a scene rendered animorphic and kept that way though the whole process and a scene rendered square pixel then squeezed on mpeg compression. But in my mind i prefer to know ive got lots of pixels to play with. 720x480 animorphic when put out to the 16:9 ratio is still 720 wide just stretched to fit the 16. it doesnt create new pixels or anything. however when rendering 853 ive got more pixels to play with during compositing. then ill squish it down at final stage

[Infrared digital]

I have rendered an animation @ 768x576 for 4:3 Pal but the movie will be shown on a widescreen plasma.

What is the best way to deal with this so that it doesn't get flattened ?

[panthon]

I have rendered an animation @ 768x576 for 4:3 Pal but the movie will be shown on a widescreen plasma.

What is the best way to deal with this so that it doesn't get flattened ?

The only way a plasma panoramic TV can display a 4:3 video correctly is by adding vertical black bars, as opposed to usual horizontal black bars on the top and the bottom. If your dvd app knows your footage is 4:3, it will tell the tv what it is, but some users force their tv to display everything in 16:9 no matter what, including news and tv programs intended to be played at 4:3.
The only thing you can do is try to setup the tV correctly, leaving black space on left and right since otherwise it will look squeezed.
To my surprise, some clients prefer the video when it fills up all the screen, even if it's strongly distorted. They think it looks like a movie this way.

[Infrared digital]

If a client wants an animation but is unsure of the find display ie; Tv @ 4:3 or widescreen @ 16:9 or computer - how do you render it out for potentially ending up on all both formats ?

[panthon]

If a client wants an animation but is unsure of the find display ie; Tv @ 4:3 or widescreen @ 16:9 or computer - how do you render it out for potentially ending up on all both formats ?

25 Progressive and 16:9 is the safest IMHO. It will look fine on pc, 4:3 tvs (with black bars on top and bottom, like a movie) and on 16:9 tvs as native aspect ratio.

4:3 should be ok, but there's a risk it could happen what i mentioned some posts above.

[Infrared digital]

Thanks for that - It's all starting to make sense finally - thank goodness.

I can't wait for HD !!

[panthon]

And i can´t wait for Blu-rays . It looks like Blu-ray is winning the marketing race against HD-DVD.

How much data can you fit on a Blu-ray disc?

A single-layer disc can hold 25GB.
A dual-layer disc can hold 50GB.

To ensure that the Blu-ray Disc format is easily extendable (future-proof) it also includes support for multi-layer discs, which should allow the storage capacity to be increased to 100GB-200GB (25GB per layer) in the future simply by adding more layers to the discs.

As a side note, blu ray engineers are experimenting with 200 GB discs and got a stable prototype with that huge capacity...

[Infrared digital]

I have rendered an animation @ 768x576 for 4:3 Pal but the movie will be shown on a widescreen plasma.

I have been getting serious horizontal jaggies and flickering running through my movie when played on a widescreen. I have tried so many variations of settings and still the same problem.

The movie is in Premiere then goes to TMpeg and then onto DVD Architect or Pinnacle Expression for burning.

Is there a method to get rid of these b@+tards that I am not realising ?

thanks, n