Animorphic footage

godix · Post by **godix** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:44 pm

I've ripped a DVD that ends up that everything horizontally is squished. Now I'm trying to figure out what I should resize it to so it'll look correct. The rip came out as 720x480 and DVD2AVI says the footage is in 16:9. After doing the math I think I should just multiple 480 by 1.777... and round to the nearest number divisable by 16, which yields 864x480. That still looks squished to me although it is better than it was. Can anyone confirm I've gotten the right size and if not what is correct (and more importantly, how did you get that)?

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 11:21 pm

I've been using 640x360 because it work with the 16:9 ratio but I'm not sure what would be best right now as several threads recently have been discussing this. I mean it works for me but as for the 'best res' for anamorphic video... I can't help you there.

godix · Post by **godix** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 11:23 pm

Perhaps I didn't pay close enough attention to the other posts. I thought they were discussing ideal resolution for PAL letterbox footage. What I have is NTSC anamorphic video. At least I think it's anamorphic, it's in a 3:2 ratio rather than the standard 16:9 or 4:3.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:29 am

Ermac and Absolute Destiny's guide recommends resizing to either 960x480 or 720x360 (2:1 in both cases)... personally, I've never had to work with anamorphic footage before.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 10:17 am

godix wrote:Perhaps I didn't pay close enough attention to the other posts. I thought they were discussing ideal resolution for PAL letterbox footage. What I have is NTSC anamorphic video. At least I think it's anamorphic, it's in a 3:2 ratio rather than the standard 16:9 or 4:3.

No, all DVD video is 720x480, because 3:2 on square pixels is 4:3 on 11:10 rectangular (TV) pixels. If it's supposed to be anamorphic, resize to some 16:9 resolution and it'll be the right AR.

koronoru · Post by **koronoru** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:46 am

Tab. wrote:No, all DVD video is 720x480, because 3:2 on square pixels is 4:3 on 11:10 rectangular (TV) pixels. If it's supposed to be anamorphic, resize to some 16:9 resolution and it'll be the right AR.

DVD video is 720x480 if it's NTSC. If it's PAL, it's 720x576.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:34 pm

godix: to simplify whats been said so far, the resolution you have chosen is indeed the correct aspect ratio.

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:44 pm

koronoru wrote:DVD video is 720x480 if it's NTSC. If it's PAL, it's 720x576.

PAL doesn't exist, it's just a huge myth spawned by the British because they're rebels in an angsty world.

NME · Post by **NME** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:32 pm

Canada uses a video system all it's own SARCASM\