Well it seems to be just the way that QuickTime handles playback of m2v
files. It's an even worse situation in PAL where a 720x576 m2v gets
resized to 720x540 - vertical resizing is always a big no no because it
destroys the field integrity.
It's a question of QuickTime being clever when in this instance you
don't want it to be. I don't think there's anything you can do about it
though.
Martin Baker
Multicam Lite & Final Cut Plug-ins
www.digital-heaven.co.uk
On 25 Mar 2005, at 22:07, Luke Wonderly wrote:
Dear List members,
I (and dozens of others) have been pulling our hair out with the
following QT problem . .
When compressing a QT movie (source size 720 X 480) using Compressor &
other(s) software
(Compressor included in DVDSP3) INTO a MPEG2 file - after compressing
into a DVD file format
.m2v IT SUDDENLY RESIZES and displays at 640 X 480 in QT! ! ! !
What the HECK! ! ! ! !
This has been an ongoing discussion on Compressor list that absolutely
no one can figure out . . . .
I personally contacted Apple Support (my software is less than 2
months old) and they explained that
it's QT way of handling & displaying square pixels? ? ? ? ?
Weird - cause I have several hundred movies that ARE sized at 720 X
486 - and display correctly in
QT!
Once these movies (.m2v) are brought into DVDSP3 for DVD authoring -
they display & play fine at their
actual size of 720 X 480!
But still show up in the RESIZED 640 X 480 size in other multi media
programs! ! ! !
In addition, I have to back up & archive 210 movies (right now - then
2,014 later!!!) in the .m2v format -
and ALL of these are RESIZED to 640 X 480 (when in reality they are
actually 720 X 480).
Aaaaarrrrrgggggg!
Can anyone here possibly explain what the HECK is going on, if any of
you have experienced this in QT
(in the m2v format) - and what I can possibly do to back up and
archive these movies at their correct
720 X 480 size???
I'm using a new emac, Mac OS 10.3.5, QT 6.5.2 - and have not upgraded
to the $20.00 mpeg component -
but my QT player does play the .m2v movies - so it might have been
included in the new version of DVDSP3.
Bye the way - the Apple support rep said he would email an article,
which in part would explain this "Problem" -
which I never have received from him . . . . anyone know of this
article? A bunch of folks on the Compressor
list are still pulling our hair out on this one! ! !
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