Thanks Ann. I did forget to post the info from mediainfo. I did figure the display would not look good on tv because it was blown up so much but I really can't say the interlaced or progressive version looks better over the other. Thanks for helping me...I am well versed with photos but I'm trying to learn all this video stuff now. How can a widescreen image be displayed in a 4:3 frame? Are parts of the image just cropped off? In which case it would be better to export as 4:3 to get the whole picture?? I'm guessing this might have something to do with the pixel aspect ratio but please clarify for me. I see aspect ratios as 4:3, 16:9 and as various decimal numbers 1.783, etc. and I know there are image ratios, pixel ratios and display ratios but don't know much beyond that at this point. General Complete name : C:\Users\Public\Videos\2010 10 28\2010-10-19 connor dancing misc.MOD Format : MPEG-PS File size : 100 MiB Duration : 1 min 30 s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 9 271 kb/s FileExtension_Invalid : mpeg mpg m2p vob pss evo Video ID : 224 (0xE0) Format : MPEG Video Format version : Version 2 Format profile : Main@Main Format settings : CustomMatrix / BVOP Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, Matrix : Custom Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15 Format settings, picture structure : Frame Duration : 1 min 30 s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 8 830 kb/s Maximum bit rate : 9 543 kb/s Width : 704 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 1.738 Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS Standard : NTSC Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Scan order : Top Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.872 Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00 Time code source : Group of pictures header GOP, Open/Closed : Open GOP, Open/Closed of first frame : Closed Stream size : 95.4 MiB (95%) Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC Transfer characteristics : BT.601 Matrix coefficients : BT.601
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