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About HD standards

About HD standards

One of the things that tends to be confusing for new Premiere users, it actually tends to be confusing for a lot of people, is the standards for High Definition video or in other words HD video. So let's go over to Project panel again, and create a new sequence and look at what are the HD standards. Now if we close up the Digital SLR, we have basically the standards in a sense. The 480p is kind of like the standard for regular video and actually it is 480i. So if we click DV-NTSC, open that up, click on Standard 48kHz, we can see that there are some standards here. 29.97 frames/second, and it is 720 pixels wide by 480 pixels tall, in order words horizontal and vertical, what the h and v stand for. When we talk about size as far as video goes, we often just use the vertical height in pixels or in other words in lines. So for a regular standard definition video, which is 720x480, this is referred to often as 480i. It's referred to as i, because it refers to interlaced fields and what…

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