[Bf-funboard] Render Buttons proposal

[Luke Wenke]

Those PAL and NTSC presets you list are actually "square pixel" presets...
they involve more pixels being rendered than necessary, though the
non-resized output looks fine on computers since the pixels are square. The
proper resolutions are 720x576 for PAL (with a certain aspX and aspY since
the pixels aren't square) and 720x480 for NTSC - basically how it is now -
including the framerate (25fps or 30fps). I don't think there should be 601
and DV/DVD NTSC settings like you have there... if you chose the wrong one
the output would look about the same anyway. (it would be about 1% too tall
or short...)
Since it looks like there are 3 categories of screen resolutions maybe there
could be a 2 stage menu... the first stage could say "PC screen" or "TV
screen" or "Paper"(?) then within the menus are the items. That way you
could have different paper settings with different DPI's, more PC
resolutions (1280x1024, etc), the full range of HD things, PAL/NTSC both in
progressive and fields/interlaced, etc. BTW, DV NTSC(?)/PAL are lower field
first which is the same as even field first in blender... the presets should
probably include the fields. For progressive video, I think it shouldn't use
fields at all even though it may look slightly better if you use fields plus
no time difference ("X") between fields. The reason is because the "X" and
fields setting makes it take longer to render (envmaps, shadow maps, etc,
are rendered twice per frame)
- Luke.

> How about adding a few more presets while we are at
> it? Here is the full list I'd like(some of them are
> inspired by presets in other software like After
> Effects and Photoshop):
>
> ----------------
> 640x480
> 800x600
> 1024x768
> ----------------
> 2480x3508 A4
> ----------------
> 720x540 NTSC 601
> 720x534 NTSC DV/DVD
> 864x486 Wide NTSC 601
> 864x480 Wide NTSC DV/DVD
> 768x576 PAL
> 1024x576 Wide PAL
> 1280x720 HDTV 720P
> 1920x1080 HDTV 1080i
> ----------------