• Adobe After Effects

  Correctly render 16×9?

  Posted by Shirak Agresta on October 2, 2006 at 7:20 am

  Hey there,
  I shot some footage on a Canon XL2 in their 16×9 mode. It’s been edited and now I’m going to import it into AE to color correct, add some stuff, y’know. Anyway, is there anything I need to know as far as the exporting of it so that it actually renders out with the correct aspect ratio? When I imported the footage into AE, the settings say that the pixel aspect ratio is (1.21:1) and that the frame aspect ratio is 20:11 at a width and height of 720×480. When I looked at the render queue settings I couldn’t find anything that said that it would maintain that ratio so that it would play in 16×9. Am I missing something? Thanks!

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  Steve Roberts replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Steve Roberts

  October 2, 2006 at 1:59 pm

  It depends on how you want to play it back when all is said and done.

  If DVD, you render the comp as is at 720×480 to a high-quality codec, then use your normal compressor to compress to MPEG-2 at that size, then when authoring a DVD, you set a 16:9 or widescreen flag in your DVD authoring app.

  If you’re sending it to an editor, render as is to the editor’s choice of codec.

  If you want it to play back on the web, drag the comp into a comp that is 16:9, say, 480×270 or 360×180 and render that.

  If you expect this to be broadcast NTSC, drag it into a 720×480 DV (non-widescreen) comp and scale it so you have letterbox bars top and bottom.

  Does one of those options suit?

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