editing What is my screening format?

[perik]

Hi!

Im going to send a film into a filmfestival and Im a bit confused of which is my screeningformat? I can choose between the following screening formats:

4:3
16:9 Letterbox
16:9 Anamorphic

Ive been shooting it with a Canon HV30 with this format:

Frame size:
1440x1080

Vid Rate
25 fps

Compressor
HDV1080i50

Pixel Aspect:
HD (1440x1080)

Audio format
16-bit integer

Audio Rate
48 Khz

Then Ive been exporting it and burning it to DVD. Heres what it looks like in myDVDedit:

So my question is simply:

which is my format?

and what is the difference between 16:9 Letterbox and 16:9 Anamorphic

maybe a stupid question but Im a bit confused here and dont want to write the wrong thing

thanks

Perik

 

[wheatgrinder]

hey Perik.
As you have your choice of submitting either 16:9 letterbox or anamorphic, just pick one and see how it goes.

The screening format in this case = Aspect Ratio. Which is what 16:9 is, a ration. 16 units wide, by 9 units high.

Anamorphic is a method where a regular squarish screen (4:3) full of data can be stretched out to be a 16:9 display. With a 4:3 screen an anamorphic dvd will display black bars on the bottom and top, on a wide screen TV the dvd image would fill the entire frame.

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_widescreen for more..

I believe that anamorphic is the better choice, but only from a compatibility with different TV's point of view. As this is submitting to a panel of presumably video experts, very likely compatibility is not an issue.

 

[perik]

shall say also that the DVD Im submitting is just for preview porpose. if the film is qualified they want it in betacam. I havnt remade it for betacam yet. can I choose letterbox or anamorphic later in that process through final cut?

so you think its best to submit in anamorphic Betacam? how do I flag it as anamorphic then? in myDVDedit I only got these alternatives:

4:3
16:9
16:9 auto Pan&scan
16:9 auto letterbox
16:9 auto Pan&scan and letterbox

 

[wheatgrinder]

I know NOTHING about betacam

Pan And Scan is talking about taking wide material and panning the FRAME so that the IMPORTANT stuff is in the 4:3 frame. You Likely don't want that.

GO with 16:9 auto letterbox (the word anamorphic isn't a standard, I think that 16:9 anamorphic and 16:9 auto letterbox are the same thing!)