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Using native HDV 1440 x 1080 in AE?
Hi, I’m creating graphics for a HDV 1440×1080 format. It’s suppose to be widescreen.
Can anyone please explain to me how to set this up in After Effects?
When I go to create a comp and just type in the 1440×1080, The Pixel Aspect Ratio isn’t correct. (I don’t think anwyay) And it’s not loooking widescreen.
Does anyone know of a preset?
Or am I suppose to set something up in the project settings first?
This is the first time working with this kind of format, so I don’t think I am doing this correctly.Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Jaime -
4 Replies
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I was perplexed by this as well. However, I just set up my composition to a standard HD 1920×1080 aspect ratio and stretched the HDV to fit. It worked just fine. If I was compositing graphics over live action in Final Cut I worked to the 1920×1080 aspect ratio and it dropped in just fine.
A word of warning – HDV is an okay acquisition medium. Try and avoid rendering to it, especially if you are re-rendering a live action HDV clip. Everytime you do this you recompress and introduce additional compression artifacts. It won’t look good!
Arthur Vibert
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Ok, I’m a little confused.
My client is going to be importing the graphics I create into his Final Cut Pro system.
But he told me that the size should be 1440 x 1080.
Are you saying it really doesn’t have to be that size?
Or the only way to do this is to create all my graphics in this HD 1920×1080?When he goes to import the graphics, he’ll have to squeeze them to fit the 1440 x 1080, won’t that distort the graphics?
Thanks so much!
Jaime -
My experience was that there was no problem. What I would suggest is that you try a test – something simple to verify the sizes. Then if there’s an issue you can rejigger everything without having committed lots of time.
Arthur VIbert
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Try this for your settings:
Go into After Effects 6.5/Support Files/interpretation rules.txt and add this line to the bottom
1440,1080,*,”.AVI”,”CFHD”=”1440/1080/”HDV,l,*,*
Should work nicely;;;
Have fun!
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