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Re: Re-size or crop? (was: quality question)

On 4/30/01 11:01 AM, "Logan Kelsey" <email@hidden> wrote:

> on 4/27/01 4:58 PM, DVD Studio Pro wrote:
>
>> You should always re-size or crop to 720x480 BEFORE encoding, or your
>> video will be forcibly (and not always accurately) resized.
>
> Ok... I'm curious about this one.
>
> When designing we use square pixels at 720x540 and re-size to 720x486 for
> broadcast. All the graphics I create get resized either to 720x486 or to
> 720x480 from square source. Encoding/re-sizing video should follow the
> same logic. You would think that going from D1 720x486 to 720x480 for DVD
> you should resize.
>
> I know... it's only 6 pixels.
>
> Resize or crop?


I would strongly suggest that you crop. This is less than 1% and is at the
extremities. Any, no matter how good it is executed, resizing will degrade
the quality of the resultant file. This would be most noticeable as a
softening of the image.


Michael Hazarian
Rx Productions



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