• Adobe After Effects

  reformat video to screen size

  Posted by Gary Jarvis on July 10, 2013 at 10:42 pm

  Hi
  I have two output ports of 1280 x 512 with a 1080p my screen is 1344 wide, to enable me to cover the full screen area I have to use both ports my problem is that, port 1 shows the top half of my vid and port 2 shows the bottom half.
  What I would like to do is;
  a) Choose a portion of my vid that will be 1920 x 512
  b) Cut it in half 960 x 512
  c) Cut and paste the right hand 960 x 512 under left hand vid
  d) This would leave me with a 960 x 1024 actual vid size but,
  e) When played on my screen it will be a continuous 1920 x 540

  My sit is I would like to create this for screen test

  My problem is that I have adobe cs5. I am vaguely familiar with AE any suggestions

  Any help would be greatly appreciated

  All the best

  Gary

  Gary Jarvis replied 12 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  July 11, 2013 at 3:26 pm

  This may be a case where a picture is worth a thousand words.

  I’d suggest that you could create a 1920×512 comp and place your source footage in that. Position it as you like.

  Create a 960×1024 comp, place your 1920×512 comp inside it, and duplicate the 1920×512 comp’s layer so you have two. Reposition them as necessary.

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  Gary Jarvis

  July 21, 2013 at 6:00 pm

  My apologies for my tardiness mate, been (fortunately) quite busy. It worked out fine

  Thank you

  Gary

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