A Widescreen World
The one certainty is that the future of broadcast is in the widescreen 16:9 format!

Whether one of the HDTV standards, NTSC, or PAL, a stock footage house must address these issues today, not sometime in the future. TimelapseSource offers all clips in 16:9 as well as standard 4:3.

Which Format Is Right For You?
If your project’s technical requirements are not set, our 16:9 clips provide the most flexibility. They can be cropped, or panned left and right to fit a full screen 4:3 project, or letter boxed top and bottom. Since all the image information of the original master is preserved, you have a full range of options.

Most editing and compositing software can understand and handle 16:9 NTSC and PAL. However, if you don’t need the flexibility and are just producing for standard 4:3 television, we also offer a cropped full screen NTSC and PAL version of each clip at a price savings.

I’ve Never Had All These Choices Before? Why?
Most stock houses prepared their content libraries years ago, and only sell either standard NTSC or PAL. Since we master in the 16:9 world of HDTV we provide more choices and ways of handling your NTSC or PAL.

Delivery Format: Broadcast Quality
All clips are mastered as PhotoJpg QuickTimes at 98% quality setting, then packaged as a “zip” file for easy download. This makes it easy for both Mac O.S. & Windows users to download and unpack the clip for use. PhotoJpg is the best format to deliver “Full Broadcast Quality Clips” with no compression artifacts. These clips can be used with any type of editing system or software. All clips are ready for instant download.