Settings: PSP Video

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Crop Mode:

Different video sources may have different aspect ratios (e.g 4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1). Both 16:9 and 2.35:1 are widescreen, however 2.35:1 is even wider. Some DVD movie with 2.35:1 aspect ratio contains black bars on top and bottom in order to fit into the 16:9 DVD standard. For 2.35:1 extra wide movies, you may choose the following crop modes based on your personal preference.

Crop mode 1 Cut off the top black bar, use the bottom black bar for subtitle display. Cut off unimportant left, right wings.
Crop mode 2 (Recommended) Cut off top and botton black bars. (Please set subtitle to "None"). Cut off unimportant left, right wings.
Crop mode 3 Cut off unimportant left, right wings.
Crop mode 4 Cut off the top black bar, use the bottom black bar for subtitle display.
Crop mode 5 Cut off top and bottom black bar. (Please set subtitle to "None")
Crop mode 6 No cut off. (Default Mode)

Resolution:

PSP Movie Creator detects aspect ratios from your video source and cropping mode and automatically select the most proper resolution for optimum video playback on PSP display. You can also manually select which resolution you want. PSP allows you to change Screen Mode to display 320x240 resolution video in different zoom, aspect ratios. For non-320x240 resolutions, PSP will always display in full screen. The resolutions supported by Sony PSP is limited to 76800 pixels. So only 320x240, 368x208, 400x192 are valid resolutions.

Movie Quality & Size

To reduce the output size, you can choose a lower audio quality or lower video quaility.

Video Frame Rate:

Known as Frame Per Second (FPS). It refers to the number of pictures displayed in 1 second in order to form continuous motions. The default frame rate is 15 fps (14.985 actually). You may choose 30fps(29.97 actually) get more continous motions. According to Sony PSP's specification, the hardware only supports the above two settings (14.985 and 29.97).

When selecting 30fps, increase the movie quality and size a little bit. This is because more frames need some amount of additional motion data to be stored.