Pixel Aspect Ratios of Common Video Formats
Pixel aspect ratio values for common standard-definition video formats are listed below. Note that for each video format, two different types of pixel aspect ratio values are listed:
- Rec.601, a Rec.601-compliant value, which is considered the real Pixel Aspect Ratio of standard-definition video of that type.
- Digital, which is roughly equivalent to Rec.601 and is more suitable to use in Digital Video Editing software.
Note that sources differ on PARs for common formats – for example, 576 lines (PAL) displayed at 4:3 (DAR) corresponds to either PAR of 12:11 (if 704×576, SAR = 11:9), or a PAR of 16:15 (if 720×576, SAR = 5:4). See references for sources giving both, and SDTV: Resolution for a table of storage, display and pixel aspect ratios.
| Video system | DAR | Picture dimensions (px × px) |
PAR | PAR (decimal) | Width (px) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rec.601 | Digital | Rec.601 | Digital | Rec.601 | Digital | |||
| PAL | 4:3 | 704×576, 352×288 |
59:54 | 12:11 | 1.0925 | 1.09 | 769, 385 | 768, 384 |
| 16:9 | 118:81 | 16:11 | 1.4567… | 1.45 | 1026, 513 | 1024, 512 | ||
| NTSC | 4:3 | 704×480, 352×240 |
10:11 | 0.90 | 640, 320 | |||
| 16:9 | 40:33 | 1.21 | 853, 427 | |||||
| HDV / HDCAM | 16:9 | 1440×1080 | 4:3 | 1.3 | 1920 | |||
Read more about this topic: Pixel Aspect Ratio
Famous quotes containing the words aspect, ratios, common and/or video:
“The fact remains that the human being in early childhood learns to consider one or the other aspect of bodily function as evil, shameful, or unsafe. There is not a culture which does not use a combination of these devils to develop, by way of counterpoint, its own style of faith, pride, certainty, and initiative.”
—Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994)
“Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
“These people figured video was the Lord’s preferred means of communicating, the screen itself a kind of perpetually burning bush. “He’s in the de-tails,” Sublett had said once. “You gotta watch for Him close.””
—William Gibson (b. 1948)