Many thanks for the guides/review. In regards the movie to ipod export option, believe it or not the resolution that its giving you is actually a more accurate representation of your NTSC DV footage than 320x240 is.
Its an aspect ratio issue. NTSC is 720x480. To turn 720 into 320, divide by 2.25. To maintain the aspect ratio, the same reduction should also be performed on the vertical resolution. But if you divive 480 by 2.25, you get 213.3333 not 240. So quicktime is actually just trying to maintain the aspect ratio. In other parts of the world that use PAL rather than NTSC, DV res is 720x576. So results are different with PAL footage. I just tried it and my PAL 720x576 footage gets turned into a 300x240 clip. Same reason, its maintaining the aspect ratio. This time its divided the vertical and horizontal resolution by a factor of 2.4. Anyway in practise videobloggers havent been worrying about this stuff, so in every videoblog created with a DV cam, the aspect ratio is slightly wrong on the final 320x240 footage. NTSC footage at 320x240 is stretched, so you are slightly thinner than in real life. PAL footage is slightly squashed, so I am slightly fatter than in real life. More tech info on aspect ratio stuff here: http://www.mir.com/DMG/aspect.html Certainly easier to forget this issue than worry about it I guess, but I can see why Apple have done what theyve done on this one. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Export "Movie to iPod (320 X 240)" > I had hoped that this would be an easy to use preset that would be > great for videobloggers and the iPod but it's not. If you edit some > DV footage and use this option it will make your compressed video 320 > X 213 which looks like crap. What this feature seems intended for > (and is good at doing) is taking an old quicktime movie (compressed > with something else like Sorenson) that you've already downloaded and > make it work on you iPod. > > That's about it for now. > Verdi > -- > Me: http://michaelverdi.com > R&D: http://graymattergravy.com > Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org > Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
