• Boris FX Particle Illusion

  Working In 16:9 In PI

  Posted by Jeff Polster on May 4, 2005 at 2:37 am

  To anyone who’d know: Can you tell a newbie how to set the program up to work and deliver rendered results in 16:9? I’ve tried figuring it out but am getting nowhere.

  Thanks,

  JP

  David Strelitz replied 20 years, 11 months ago 9 Members · 19 Replies
• 19 Replies

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  Jonathan Decker

  May 4, 2005 at 4:04 am

  Set your stage area to 740×480 with a pixel ratio of 1.2

  gesamtkunstzwerk
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  Jeff Polster

  May 4, 2005 at 4:39 am

  Thanks for the quick reply. Now how does one set the pixel ratio. I see no setting for this in the program.

  Sorry to be so dense.

  JP
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  Sbilf

  May 4, 2005 at 8:53 am

  Hi all,
  I have the same question, but I work in PAL, so I work in 720×576…need I to set pixel aspect ratio to 1.2 too? This mean square pixels or anamorpfhing setting?
  Thank you, Max.
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  Alan Mills

  May 4, 2005 at 11:42 am

  I asked the same thing in my early days. Read the thread at

  https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=109988093675433&forumid=23&archive=_2004|1|0

  It helped me a lot.
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  Alan Lorence

  May 4, 2005 at 12:50 pm

  pI3 currently supports only square pixels.

  Alan.
  wondertouch
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  Jeff Polster

  May 4, 2005 at 5:02 pm

  Is this to say that you can’t work in 16:9 in PI 3?
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  Jeff Polster

  May 5, 2005 at 4:22 am

  Thanks for your trail of posts on this subject. I use Liquid
  Edition 5.62 and Particle Illusion 3 and in NTSB. I’m surprised at how much work this appears to be. I’ll try to get this to work using what you’ve sent.

  I hope Wondertouch can make this easier in the next release. 16:9 is going to be more and more common and PI 3 is a great program. It would be a shame if it didn’t get used more because it’s hard make it work in 16:9.
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  Steven L. gotz

  May 5, 2005 at 5:03 am

  What is hard about using square pixels? I must have missed something.

  It seems to me that my only problem with 16:9 is figuring out how to get a 1920X1080 stage on a Monitor screen that is too small to do so.

  I have to work at 50% or so just to fit it all in.

  Steven
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  Bas Wolters

  May 5, 2005 at 5:56 am

  Can you make PI work for your 4:3 projects? In NTSC a square pixel is ‘converted’ to a 0.9 ratio pixel for 4:3 projects and to a 1.2 ratio pixel for 16:9 projects. This ‘conversion’ is done by your editing program and there is no need to do this in PI.

  As a comparison, digital photo cameras only use square pixels and don’t offer 0.9 or 1.2 pixel ratios. But that doesn’t stop anyone from importing photos into their videos, right?
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  May 5, 2005 at 11:38 am

  Hi Everyone – I will figure this out, later today. I have a method of figuring out how the square pixel equivilent of a non-square comp. I have to go to the hospital for my dad this morning, but hopefully be back later today.

  Fear not, this shouldn;t be a big deal, and probably isn;t – it just takes a little figuring out. Once you know, though, it’s no big deal.

  Aharon

  Aharon Rabinowitz
  arabinowitz(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
  http://www.allbetsareoff.com
  http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

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