[MacDV] Re: DVD player/TV crops my DVD-R

[Jim Asherman]

On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 08:15  PM, Erica Sadun wrote:

>> 720x480 I believe.
>
> Square pixels
> 720 x 480 NTSC
> 720 x 576 PAL
>
> Rectangular pixels
> 640 x 480
> 768 x 576
>
> TV Safe -5% overall
> Title Safe -10% overall
>
> FYI, -- Erica
>
>>


Cheez and crackers Erica I sure don't wanna get in this with you but 
that doesn't sound right.  I mean right off NTSC is rectangular not 
square right?
and Computers are square which is why the 640 goes to 720 when you
rectangularize it. Right? That's why they tell you to work taller than 
480 and then
squish it top to bottom right?
This has been an issue many times especially when I had the Toaster 
which is rectangular native, and I know i have a twisted perspective. 
(LOL)

I got a link   
http://www.creativemac.com/2001/05_may/tutorials/totalae407/totalae407-page1.
htm
  But I don't think this guy has it all right either because he maintains 
that Rectangular pixels are taller than they are wide which goes against 
all experience.
  FCP displays the pixels as square .
but you can switch them to rectangular and the image gets wider not 
taller.

Very sticky
Jim