
Mister Hatt wrote:the show is sorta halfway between 720p and 1080p depending on scene
That's the way it should be. North American DVD's are always 720x480.Songbird21 wrote:Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a widescreen series, yet when I rip it the file comes out as 720 X 480. Wth? Do any of you guys know what happened and how I could fix this? I'm using DVDfab.
Using square pixels in the correct aspect ratio prevents any text/effects added during the editing process from being deformed later on when the footage is re-stretched. Plus I don't think the average AMVer knows enough about Aspect Ratio to work with it comfortably. IMO the part in the guide that says resizing footage is optional should actually be mandatory.Mister Hatt wrote:I don't know why but AMVers seem to have some sort of allergy to anamorphic encoding, which makes no sense seeing as it'd be easier for convention coordinators to play back when they demand ridiculous MPEG-2 encodes on top of it.
Phantasmagoriat wrote:Mathematically that is 3:2 (1.5), but on the package it says 4:3 or 16:9...
Phantasmagoriat wrote:Using square pixels in the correct aspect ratio prevents any text/effects added during the editing process from being deformed later on when the footage is re-stretched. Plus I don't think the average AMVer knows enough about Aspect Ratio to work with it comfortably. IMO the part in the guide that says resizing footage is optional should actually be mandatory.
Mister Hatt wrote:I don't know why but AMVers seem to have some sort of allergy to anamorphic encoding, which makes no sense seeing as it'd be easier for convention coordinators to play back when they demand ridiculous MPEG-2 encodes on top of it.
Think millionaire, but with cannons. || Resident Maaya Sakamoto fan.Call it incompetence, but I just think leaving footage at native 720x480 introduces the possibility of more errors than the average AMVer would know how to handle. For instance, even if you do what Cannonaire said, and set the PAR in your project settings, it will work for effects rendered within the program-- but when importing external effects that don't have the same AR, the effect will be resized to match, which doesn't usually look good. The only way around this would be to create the effect at 720x480 with a squished aspect, and be able to foresee how it will be stretched later on. I'd say that's way too complex for most people. Resizing beforehand is so much more straight-forward, and safer.Mister Hatt wrote:Adding text and effects that are anamorphic safe is easy... Maybe the editor who messes this up is, I daresay, incompetent?
That's true, and maybe I jumped the gun by saying resizing should be mandatory. For me, the benefits of resizing beforehand outweigh the benefits of leaving your footage at 720x480. If you're in this hobby, file size shouldn't be an issue; and minimal quality loss after resizing is negligible, especially when considering the footage will be re-compressed anyways.Cannonaire wrote:I agree that the first part of what you said is true, and I think that in some cases - such as mixing sources with different aspect ratios - resizing beforehand can be the best option. I completely disagree that the guide should say resizing is mandatory. When it makes sense, anamorphic is certainly the best way to go, and it's not difficult at all to do correctly. It will let you maintain the exact level of detail your source had as well as in some cases giving you a smaller file than you would have if you resized first. All you really have to do is set PAR in your project settings so effects will be right and then set PAR to the same thing when you mux.
Also, consider that if it's not in square pixels, the coordinator is more likely to screw up too.Cannonaire wrote:The unfortunate reality is conventions often have outdated equipment and pretty much always have different policies. Unless a contest coordinator specifically told me anamorphic was fine, I would resize my video to have square pixels. I would still make an anamorphic mkv for the org release though.Mister Hatt wrote:I don't know why but AMVers seem to have some sort of allergy to anamorphic encoding, which makes no sense seeing as it'd be easier for convention coordinators to play back when they demand ridiculous MPEG-2 encodes on top of it.
Phantasmagoriat wrote:..when importing external effects that don't have the same AR, the effect will be resized to match, which doesn't usually look good. The only way around this would be to create the effect at 720x480 with a squished aspect, and be able to foresee how it will be stretched later on. I'd say that's way too complex for most people. Resizing beforehand is so much more straight-forward, and safer.
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