Seq. Settings for DV Widescreen

So I am working on a tradeshow video, to be displayed on 16:9 monitors.
What are proper sequence settings in terms of pixel aspect ratios
and frame size?
Is this considered anamorphic, meaning I need to check "anamorphic 16:9"?
I am not working with squeezed material, so I am thinking not.
I have an SD NTSC monitor with both 4:3 and 16:9 options, so 16:9
appears letterboxed on that output.

Hay, So, you've asked too many questions to be answerd with a simple yes or no but, mostly, it's yes, like Nick says.
But here's what you want to do: Open the FCP manual and study the sections on anamorphic. Then open the DVDSP manual and study the sections on anamorphic.
Then burn a couple of test coasters.
For your 4x3 source video to fill a 16x9 display, it has to be pulled out at the edges. If it's going to to look normal as 16x9, it has to look tall and squished in 4x3. For you to produced 4x3 that is cropped for 16x9, you must make some interesting creative decisions and that's where things get really complicated. If you letterbox to crop to 16x9 aperture, you're throwing away half of your vertical resolution, half of the lines are black. Did you shoot to compose for the wide screen format? Probably not. If you scale your 720x480 vertically to fill a 16x9 aperture that might be 1080x720 or more, you lose your resolution anyway.
And that's only a one-paragraph compressed version of about fifty pages in the manuals.
bogiesan

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Gustavo,
Your end result should be DVD, which is 720 x 480 NTSC or 720 x 576 PAL.
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I have 720x480 anamorphic video (final original unsqueezed size 854x480) and imported it as anamorphic. I would like to create a scaled down version (640x360, still 16:9 ratio), but progressive for the web.
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I've been trying to find the best settings for exporting DVD footage into a movie file from Adobe Premiere CS6.
I recently have been using my Magnavox DVD recorder for recording VHS tapes that I made long ago for shows and various other things, and no matter what, my footage doesn't come out as it needs to be.
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Many thanks Lennart, and my apologies for a typo earlier when really confused you by leaving out one key word. I meant to say, "These projects are really (not) demanding that I keep it at optimum HD quality…"
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Since posting the test I suggested you run, Alesse, I've done some testing of my own, with some interesting results. They aren't going to help you much, I'm afraid, but they might shed some light on the whole process of making slideshows.
I do everything I can to maximize image quality in iMovie slideshows. Then I've wondered what affect iDVD has on the result.
So today I played the same slideshow from three sources. One version from the camera, one version from iDVD and one version from a Digital Video Recorder (DVR).
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2) I imported the same images with Ken Burns ON (but with no animation); and
3) I imported the same images with Ken Burns OFF.
The four clips of each image were arranged side-by-side on the Timeline, so I could easily compare their quality while played on the TV.
(The images were selected to include those that are easy to encode by iDVD and images difficult to encode — having lots of high-contrast lines like roof lines, lap-siding on buildings, telephone lines, the kind of content that tends to acquire the "jaggies". I avoided the bug where iMovie adds jaggies if you grant it permission to render UNrendered images as you export the project to iDVD or to the camera.)
I wanted to compare the quality of three kinds of slideshows:
1) the slideshow played from the camera;
2) the slideshow burned by iDVD and
3) the slideshow burned by a standalone DVR.
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1) used iDVD to burn a DVD of the iMovie project;
2) exported the iMovie slideshow project back to the camera; and
3) connected the camera to a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and burned a DVD on the DVR. This was so I could compare the quality of iDVD to a DVR recording.
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RESULT
• The camera image was superior in all respects to both the DVDs, as one would expect. Considerably better. There were virtually no jaggies. Subtler colors. Less contrast. iMovie 6 was obviously delivering the goods. Great quality, on every clip.
• At first I thought the DVR image was better than the iDVD image, but reconsidered that later. Each had its own positive qualities. There was little difference. Each was slightly better in some respects than the other, worse in others. It was basically a wash. Both had about the same amount of jaggies, sometimes in different places.
• Another interesting result was that all the clips — from all four sources — played basically the same on the camera and on the two DVDs. There was very little difference among the four import methods. (I expected more difference.)
• There WAS an obvious difference among clips played in iMovie, however. The DV stream exported as a DV Progressive movie displayed with better quality in iMovie itself. The difference wasn't huge, but it was sharper, more "life-like".
• It is obvious that encoding an iMovie project to the MPEG-2 format used by a DVD — whether by iDVD or by a DVR — sacrifices quality. You won't notice it much on some images — flowers, faces, landscapes — but you will see jaggies on others.
• When the test was over, I watched a DVD slideshow of the same images I had burned a few weeks ago containing three iMovie widescreen formats: DV Widescreen, 720p, and 1080i. It was a close call, but I think they were all slightly better than the DV slideshow. Some images, especially, were better.
CONCLUSIONS
If you want the best playback quality possible, use the camcorder to play the slideshow on the TV, not a DVD.
To avoid the jaggies, it may be necessary to avoid certain photos. It's hard to tell which those are until you play the DVD on a TV. Plan to burn a DVD, then purge the images that acquire bad jaggies and burn it again.
Softening the TV picture can help. My TV offers a tremendous range of sharpness, a feature common to new TVs.
• My guess is that until we can burn Hi-Def DVDs, our huger and huger TVs are going to make the problem of DVD quality worser and worser. My slideshows would probably all look great on yesterday's "huge" 20" TV.
• I don't have DVD Studio Pro to test. Perhaps someone can compare that too?
Anyway, I hope something here helps.
Karl

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+Talked to apple tech support, they sent me here.+
That's not amusing! neither it is reassuring for those who thought that Apple support is
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The service provided by this forum appears clearly faster and more efficient besides being totally free ...
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