• Adobe After Effects

  video format 16:9

  Posted by Stephman74 on October 11, 2006 at 9:52 am

  Hi,
  I have a number of QT video files that have been given to me by my client for upload to their website. However when I import these into AE they look ‘squashed’ I havelooked in the comp settings however there is no reference to 16:9. Any ideas on how I van remove this ‘squashed’ look.

  Cheers
  Steph

  to solve problems of today we must focus on tomorrow

  Stephman74 replied 19 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mylenium

  October 11, 2006 at 10:50 am

  Put the video in an equivalent square pixel ratio comp (e.g. 576×768 for 576×720 PAL footage). AE will automatically “unsquash” your footage. Check you comp presets, they are all there.

  Mylenium

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  Roman Flute

  October 12, 2006 at 1:46 am

  Make sure you comp is in a 16×9 pixel aspect ratio – use widescreen for you pixel aspect in your comp. Your comp setting – you can go and turn on aspect ratio correction and your squishiness will disappear. Now if you are going smaller and outputing somethign that doesn’t really support that aspect ratio – make a 16×9 sqaure size – thing 864×480 or something like that if you are going to output from AE – size it down for WMV and stuff like that. Sorenson has a preserve aspect ratio deal that you can use. I usually output QT DV 16×9 and then convert in sorenson squeeze for web…

  RF
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  Stephman74

  October 12, 2006 at 10:00 am

  Cheers guys problem solved.

  to solve problems of today we must focus on tomorrow

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