• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Anamorphic workflow

  Posted by Keith Lynch on June 4, 2017 at 9:56 am

  Hi, Im working on some previs for a friend and we’re trying to get as real world accurate as possible in terms of scale, lenses etc. He’s going to be shooting with 2x Anamorphic lenses so Im trying to mimic that in C4D.

  I set my render settings to 1920×1440 and set the pixel aspect ratio to Anamorphic 2:1 (2.0) but the export im getting is the right dimensions but once i set the pixel aspect ratio in AE to Anamorphic 2:1 it then gives me a super wide but also super distorted image, with everything stretched horizontally.

  Can anyone shed any light on what Im doing wrong please?

  Cheers!

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 9 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  June 4, 2017 at 10:46 pm

  When you look at your Cinema render outside of AE, does it look squeezed as it should? It does when I do it here.

  In order to have it appear correctly the AE composition should be set to square pixels, which desqueezes the 2:1 render. Then you also have to set the AE comp to double the rendered width.

  To simplify things I would just render to square pixels at your final AE comp size. I can’t think of any benefit to rendering to non-square pixels unless you’re trying to match a device that’s recording non-square pixels. If your friend is shooting with an anamorphic lens with a DSLR, he’s still shooting square pixels. His footage will simply have to be scaled in post.

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