Video Formats

Capture Resolutions and Frame Rates

1440x1080 HDV (16:9): 60i, 50i; CineFrame 24, 25, 30
720x480 DVCAM (4:3): 60i, 50i; CineFrame 24, 25, 30
(True Progressive Scan is available for film projects)

Digital Video Capture Formats

HDV, DVCAM, DV
NTSC and PAL
4:2:0, 4:1:1 Compression
SMTPE Timecoding

Video Encoding Resolutions

All native capture resolutions can be converted to square pixel.  Downsampling (resolution and/or bit rate) and downconversion (squeeze, crop, letterbox, or portrait*) of any capture resolution including, but not limited to:

1920x1080 (16:9): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
1280x1024 (4:3): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
1280x768 (16:9): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
1280x720 (16:9): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
1024x768 (4:3): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
800x600 (4:3): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
800x480 (16:9): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
640x480 (4:3): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
640x384 (16:9): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
480x480 (3:4): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
480x360 (4:3): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
320x240 (4:3): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
320x192 (16:9): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
240x240 (3:4): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p
160x120 (4:3): 60i, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p, 15p

Progressive rates are achieved through blending or interpolating interlaced fields.  True progressive scanning available for film and not recommended for video.

Video Encoding Formats

Microsoft® Video for Windows®
Windows® Bitmap
CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format (stills and animated)
Joint Picture Experts Group (JPEG)
Apple® QuickTime® Movie (H.263, 3GPP2, MP4)
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Video
Portable Network Graphics
Adobe® Photoshop®
RealNetworks RealVideo® 9
Macromedia Flash
Targa™ File Format
Tagged Image File Format
Microsoft Windows Media 9

* Portrait output applies to multimedia formats only
 

Audio Formats

Audio Capture Resolutions and Bit Depths

24 bit, 96KHz 1, 2, or 5.1 channel (studio)
16 bit, 48KHz 1 or 2-channel (field, locked)
16 bit, 44.1KHz 1 or 2-channel (studio)
12 bit, 32KHz 1 or 2-channel (field, unlocked)

Audio Capture Formats

HDV: MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
DV/DVCAM: 16 bit, 48KHz or 12 bit, 32KHz

Audio Encoding Formats

Dolby Digital AC-3
Macintosh® AIFF
NeXT/Sun (Java) (PCM, µ-Law)
Sound Designer 1
Intervoice (ADPCM, µ-Law, A-Law)
MPEG-1 Layer 3 (Audio)
Ogg Vorbis
Perfect Clarity Audio™
Apple QuickTime 6
Raw Files (8- and 16-bit data: signed, unsigned, Motorola/Intel byte ordering)
RealNetworks® RealAudio® 9
Macromedia Flash
Dialogic VOX (ADPCM)
Sony Media Software Wave 64™
Microsoft Wave®
Microsoft Wave®, Broadcast Wave
Microsoft Windows Media® 9
All native DV Audio formats
 

Multimedia Encoding Formats

Microsoft Windows Media 9 (Streamable)
Apple QuickTime 6 (Streamable H.263, 3GPP2, MP4)
RealNetworks® RealAudio® 9
RealNetworks RealVideo® 9
Microsoft® Video for Windows® (any codec)
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Video
 

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