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So, I don't know if this is a problem. (Apparently not, since my recorded videos play okay on the HDTV.) But it's different from SC 2 (?) that ships with PD 15. So I report it here.

I set a "custom" recording size of the screen to 1280 x 720 and record a movie off my web browser. I tell SC 3 to set the output file for 480p.

In old SC, that gave me an mp4 file with the reported dimensions of 720 x 480.

In new SC 3, it gives me 856 x 480.

I read on the web that this is reflecting square pixels.

<strikeout>Nevertheless, IIRC, I can use my old SVRT 720 x 480 profile to edit the video in PD 15. (Am recording as I write this on my tablet and can't interrupt my Desktop computer to confirm.)</strikeout>

I cannot use SVRT with this dimension. It forces me to use Hardware encoding, which takes 12 minutes on an 1.5 hour movie. (As opposed to a minute and a half with SVRT on the same movie.)

What do you experts think?

Also, I am getting much lower reported BW's in SC 3 files than I ever got with SC 2. That's even with the BW set to "High" in SC 3.

Given that these are old B/W movies with not much action, maybe SC 3 is more adaptive about BW needed.

One definite positive report: when SC 3 stops recording, the output file is available instantly. Whereas with old SC, old SC would have to "think" about the file for a minute or two (literaaly a minute or two) before the file was finished being written to.