Confirmation....still image dimensions from 16:9 720x480

Hi
I just exported a frame from a 720x480 16:9 DV NTSC video clip. I tried doing it from Premiere and it would only give me a bmp choice. I then did it from Streamclip, which gave me TIF, JPG and BMP choices but it did not really matter, because TIF is only 8 bit, just like the BMP in premiere...
The dimensions of the still image ( frame ) are (according to ps) 853 x 480 .
Is that correct for all frames exported from 720x480 16:9 DV NTSC videos ?
Reason I ask, is I want to create images that match ( size wise ) so I can make a slide show on a DVD eventually...
Thanks...
Rod
ps funny, I thought the 720 dimension would be favored and the height would be "squeezed" to something smaller than 480...for the 16:9 ratio.

Hi
Ah Ha ! Geez...I KNOW that the pixels are not square in NTSC, and ARE square in bitmaps, but I didn't even THINK about that last night when I was dealing with this...How can I be so dumb sometimes ?? Geez....
Thanks Harm.
If you could elaborate a little....I'm not very swift with math and ratios.
I just got out the calculator....and looked at GSpot...with a 720x480 widescreen AVI opened...
It is saying, par 1.185 (32:27)...for this particular AVI file that I made exported from Premiere last night...
Now, if I multiply 720 x 1.185 I get 853 !!! How cool is THAT....so I guess that's how I come up with the dimension of a bitmap when I do this in future...
And when I multiply 720 x .2121 (rather than 1.2121) I get 152.7...close enough !....same as 853...
How come there's two different ways of doing that ??
But my numbers are weird for 1.1212..... what am I doing wrong ??
Should there be one way to go about doing this math stuff ???
Anyhow, you've already answered my question and thanks a lot.... square pixels ! ..didn't even think of that...
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