Posted by mmaker on 12/27/92 11:33

Martin Heffels wrote:
> No, the size of the sensor is true 16:9 (that would be 1024x576 pixels for
> PAL SD). It is easy to crop a 4:3 picture out of it (720x576, cut off 152
> pixels horizontal each side), and then you haven't lost any vertical or
> horizontal resolution, you only aren't using part of that resolution which
> the camera offers.

Sigh.

You shoot anamorphic 16:9 DV. That records 720x576 to tape with
rectangular pixels.

You then crop off 1/4 of those pixels to get a 4:3 aspect ratio and
resize the frame back to 720x576.

You've now lost 1/4 of your resolution by throwing those pixels away
and rescaling.

What's so difficult to understand about this? Transcoding from 16:9 DV
to 4:3 DV will always lose a sizeable amount of resolution... you
cannot record 1024x576 to a DV tape with the DV codec.

Mark

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