Aspect ratio not clear at all for DV-Divx

aspect ratio 

Thanks. That Gordian knot calculator was very helpful. Now that I have my target size of 640x464 I set my frame size in Premiere to 654x476 and then under the special processing settings I crop 12 pixels off the top and bottom and 16 off the sides. I get a final clip frame size of 640x464. Is that about it? Is that the proper aspect ratio? -bluesix.

stuck in aspect hell 

According to Gordian's Knot, the aspect ratio for an uncropped clip should be 640x464. My eyes might not be that good but the movie looks a little fat. What am I doing wrong. Input source: 720x480 dv type 2 avi. -bluesix.

According to the F.A.Q. 640x464 is ok for PAL (verified on my personal camcorder). I'll have to investigate the proper resizing values for NTSC, they might be different, but because of the rounding due to the mod 16 height constraint it may turn out that the same resolution is recommended for NTSC. Don't know yet, but I'll extend the F.A.Q. as soon as I know. Be aware of the fact that not all monitor resolutions have a 1:1 aspect ratio. E.g. 1280x1024 monitor resolution is 5:4, not 4:3, thus the pixel aspect ratio is different (because the monitor size stays the same, of course). If you use this monitor resolution, switch to 1024x768 and see if the problem's gone. I highly recommend to assume 1:1 pixel aspect ratio in order to calculate the resizing. If you need to display the video on device having a different pixel aspect ratio (e.g. a TV set, or a computer monitor with a strange resolution), then let the player do the final resizing. bb