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How to resize HD to SD PAL?
I’m hoping someone can help me with this please?
I recently purchased an After Effects project file from RevoStock (https://www.revostock.com/FileCloseupAE.html?&ID=45259).
The current comp size and details are: HD 1280 x 720 (Square pixels) 16:9 23.98 FPS
I have made my changes to the comp and now need to render it out as a quicktime to take into Final Cut but as the following: SD 720 x 576 16:9 25 FPS for broadcast on PAL television.
I’ve tried it several ways, but it resizes it to 4:3 cutting things off and looks really bad in quality.
Any suggestions of how to successfully do this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards Peter.
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4 Replies
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Just drop your HD clip composition into a pal comp, then right click on the layer in the comp panel and choose transform > fit to comp height (or width). You’ll have to decide whether you want to lose either side of the element or have letterboxing.
The quality will be lower because pal sd has fewer pixels to work with. There’s no real way of getting around this. However, the footage may look worse than it will eventually look on tv if you have pixel aspect ratio correction toggled on because your monitor is showing the non-square pixels as square. Once you render it out it should look fine.
Simon Bonner
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not to be a workflow fanatic but, I believe the framerate of 23.976 to 25 should be twixtored, the video should be resized with some high end resizer plugin, and the audio time remapped to withing a 1/1000th of a frame to sync.
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If it’s a project it will simply interpolate to 25fps. If there is any included 23.976 footage in it, then yes I’d twixtor it separately though.
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its true that most people won’t ever see a 24 to 25 frame jerk difference, but the twixtoring will help keep smoothness. The standard drag and drop setting will keep the same timecode, but will, in fact, change the temporal visual quality of the medium. Try dropping a 29.97 ntsc into a 20fps, it won’t interpolate smoothness at all. That’s why new sub frames are nice.
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