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Let's take a moment to discuss something that could save you a little bit of trouble in the future when it comes to building a DVD and this is called Aspect Ratio. Often when play on the TV set. Let me show you what I'm talking about here. I'll go to my File Menu in Encore and I'll go to my Project Settings. I can see that my settings are NTSC and the dimensions, as far as pixels, are 720 by 480, which means this is going to look great on a television. So let me go ahead and jump over to QuickTime. This is a movie that I worked on and I'm going to show you how to find out the pixel aspect ratio of a QuickTime movie or any other file that you might be working on in, for Example, Premier or Final Cut Pro. I'm going to go to Window and I'm going to go to Inspector. One thing you want to make sure of as best you can is that when you're creating content, you want to match the size of your Encore format. In this case, it's 800 by 600 pixels, which is great for a computer screen, which means that the pixels are going to look a little bit different and squashed or stretched once it gets into Encore because the dimensions are not the same. So what I highly suggest you do is if you're shooting digital video with your digital camera, choose NTSC or manually, if you can, enter the dimensions, 720 by 480, so that when you do bring your content into Encore, the footage will fit properly and not wind up being stretched to compensate for this or even worse, get cut off. So once again, the Aspect Ratio is something that a lot of people really don't pay attention to when they're creating content that they eventually want to put on a DVD. Now, of course, you can get around it by having the content, you know, squashed or stretched if that's what your goal is, but for the most part, try to create something that's going to match as best you can your final output. The same holds true for anything else. If you're creating content for a website or you're going to go to print for, you know, a newspaper or something like that, it's a good idea to know the difference between working on a computer, which deals with pixels, as opposed to what's going to wind up on paper, which deals with inches. And those are other considerations you have to always keep in mind when you're working on a computer and then you're going to take that output and put it on something like a Blu-ray disk or a DVD player. You have to keep those things in mind. The format that you're working in has to look good on the final output. So always aim for either PAL or NTSC, the same pixel dimensions in the content creation so that you can build your DVD at the highest quality possible.
| Course: | Adobe Encore CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33884 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-00-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-09-30 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |