Dramaya wrote: the format is 720x480 (680x480)
Oopsies. Meant 640x480.

Sorry if that caused any confusion.
Qyot27 wrote:Display aspect ratio refers to the shape of the image. 16:9, 2.35:1, 4:3, etc. It's the shape assumed by the media player. Is the display widescreen, more square-looking, or so on.
Yeah, the footage is ripped from a widescreen, so it is 4:3. It also has the letterboxing.
Qyot27 wrote:And what do you mean by pixelation? What compression format did you use? You said Best Quality, but 'Best Quality' according to what standard?
iMovie itself has a compression function, which is what I have always used to compress my videos into a Quicktime movie. In iMovie, there are all different sorts of settings to compress the finished movie, though the one I have mainly used is called Expert Settings, where you can adjust the way the movie is compressed yourself (such as size, format, fps, quality, etc.). Using Expert Settings the first time I ripped the movie, I set the size at 720x480 and the quality at Best Quality, which is pretty much the best you can do in Expert Settings. When I played back the finished movie in Quicktime, though, there was some pixelation in the first few clips, which I believe is simply due to the speed of the clips themselves. The rest of the video after that was perfectly fine. (I don't use any of those compression programs you mentioned, btw.)
I didn't want any of that pixelation, of course, since I hope to enter it in this AMV contest, so I next tried using a compression setting called Full Quality, which basically means the movie is ripped at pretty much the same quality it appears in the movie maker itself. The finished Quicktime movie came out at 640x680 in a .dv file, and although the file size is huge, the quality is fantastic-- little to no pixelation at all. Maybe that's because the format isn't as stretched out like it might have been at 720x480, now that I think about it.
Anyway, I think we sorta deviated from my initial question. Since I have a movie that is at the quality I want it to be, and I'm no longer concerned about pixelation, I just want to make sure that it'll be screened okay in the format that it's in. I'm also slightly confused because it says that the
format is 720x480, but the
size is 640x480. Here's a screenshot of the info as it appears in Quicktime, which might help to clarify some things:
http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee15 ... eoinfo.png