RE: Aspect ratio and format for future
- From: "Arne" <Arne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:22:01 -0700
If your camcorders videochip is tuned to 4:3 then you will get best quality
using this format (theoretically it should be possible to make a lence which
makes 16:9 video with a 4:3 chip but I don't know if anyone is doing this).
On a 16:9 TV a 16:9 video will fill the whole screen and, depending on the
size and resolution of the TV, will demand good quality. A 4:3 video on a
16:9 TV will only use a portion of the screen and might therefore look better
(the smaller the picture the better the quality seems). Similarily with a 4:3
TV a 16:9 video will only fill part of the screen. You should simply test
what quality you get when you set you camcorder to capture in 16:9.
Both formats should work fine. Either a 4:3 TV will make a black box top and
bottom with a 16:9 movie or it will expand the picture to fill the screen
which might look funny. This is usually something you can decide on the TV.
If you have a 4:3 TV and do not plan to buy a 16:9 TV in the near future
then you are probably better off using 4:3. If you plan to buy a 16:9 TV or
give away your videos to people haveing 16:9 then you should test the quality
you get with 16:9 on both types of TV.
Hope this was to some help.
"carpark" wrote:
> I am transfering home movies from my Sony TRV19E Mini DV camera to DVD-R.
> I want to "future proof" my video files as much as possible and have some
> questions. I am capturing from camera to PC using Windows Movie Maker.
>
> ASPECT RATIO
> To avoid image distortion I take it I must capture to the PC in the same
> aspect ratio that was selected in the camera when the tape was shot. Is this
> true? For example if I shoot with the camera set to 4:3 and then capture to
> the PC as 16:9, will I get a distorted image on any DVD created from the
> resulting PC file?
>
> Which ratio should I be shooting and capturing in? Will all TV sets in the
> near future be 16:9, or will 4:3 sets remain? What if I create a DVD from
> footage shot and captured at 16:9 and play it on a 4:3 TV, will it work
> without distortion? What about the reverse situation (shot and captured in
> 4:3 and played on a 16:9 TV)?
>
> Do I get less picture area in 16:9 than in 4:3?
>
> FILE FORMAT
> Should I archive my raw files captured from the camera in avi format to
> retain the most original data from the tape, and then create media from these
> avi files in whatever format is popular at that point in time? I want to
> archive my home videos so that in 100 years they are still usable. Is avi the
> way to go?
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