Posted by Shak on 09/11/07 13:58

On Sep 11, 6:21 pm, culture_mind <achai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm about to start compositing various short videos and lots of
> photographs into a "holiday video" to distribute to friends. This time
> around, I've chosen to use Sony Vegas (ver 7) solely so as to get a
> feel for a non-adobe interface for once (for large / complex
> compositions, the AfterEffects interface eventually becomes the
> embodiment of "messy-ness" imho).
>
> In essence: I cannot decide what project properties to use.
>
> In the past, I was working exclusively for creating small compositions
> for pc playback, and would always use an arbitrary canvas size
> (320x240, 640x480 etc...), the straight 1:1 pixel ratio and an xvid
> compression. Most of those small clips were for distribution via a
> website etc.
>
> Now I'm flirting with the idea (the source material can support it) of
> working on a PAL resolution and aiming for a composition that will be
> released to DVD. However, I realised that the pixel aspect ratio for
> PAL (dv) is 1.0926 (after previewing a few test clips exported
> as .avi).
>
> Initially I want to distribute the video as an .avi file (xvid) for
> playback from a pc but I would also like to have the option to create
> a DVD.
>
> My question:
>
> What resolution / settings would you suggest I use? Shall I work on
> PAL Standard or a custom straight-to-pc format? If I use PAL standard,
> my composition will include several photographs / stills / text. Will
> that be scaled properly if I decided to export to .avi with a
> different pixel aspect ratio?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Angelos

You better use uncompressed AVI with 720x576 pixels resolution from
this u can export u r clips to nearly every format.(from broadcast to
mobile clips)

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