Widescreen frame size question-720x404?
When I bring 16:9 widescreen material into Compressor and I use the 16:9 presets, the settings within the program tell me I'm going to get a 720x480 result with an anamorphic pixel aspect ratio.
However, when I open the .m2v result in Quicktime and get movie info, the file appears to be 720x404.
I've been told that Quicktime is just showing me an optically correct frame size, and therefore is just narrowing the height from 480 to 404. I'm not quite sure that I believe this yet, however, because it's actually telling me that that 720x404 is the "Normal Size" of the movie.
I don't want to be losing vertical resolution if I can actually use the full 720x480 frame. Does anyone know what's happening here?
G5 Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
G5 Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
However, when I open the .m2v result in Quicktime and get movie info, the file appears to be 720x404.
I've been told that Quicktime is just showing me an optically correct frame size, and therefore is just narrowing the height from 480 to 404. I'm not quite sure that I believe this yet, however, because it's actually telling me that that 720x404 is the "Normal Size" of the movie.
I don't want to be losing vertical resolution if I can actually use the full 720x480 frame. Does anyone know what's happening here?
G5 Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
G5 Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
