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0.91:1 – is this a real PAR?
I’m doing some graphical overlays for the DV sourced footage edited in FCP and exported as a QT movie. When I bring those files to AE they’re being interpreted as having the above pixel aspect ratio. It’s the first time I’ve seen AE displaying something like that but this is also the first time I deal with FCP DV sequences (I’ve done stuff in DVCPRO HD). Should I leave it alone or change the interpretation to AE default D1/DV 0.9:1? I plan to render my final compositions at 720×480/Lossless and bring them to Compressor for MPEG-2 conversion and I’d like to avoid field issues or a possibilty of degrading the original DV footage (which by nature looks crappy).
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I don’t recognize that Aspect Ratio. Either FCP is set incorrectly, or more likely, FCP is just not encoding the PAR info properly for some reason. Just tell AE the proper PAR (in the interperate footage dialog), and if it seems to fit properly after that, it’s probably fine.
A program I use called particleIllusion doesn’t encode the PAR info proerly for PNG’s so I’ve seen this problem before.
If you plan on dropping the footage onto the Create New Comp Icon to create a comp the same size and length as your footage, Make sure that you interperate the footage properly before doing that. Otherwise the comp will have the same wierd aspect ratio.
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I get the same stupid problem. Be careful to set it back to standard dv PAR. If not, it will not match back in FCP.
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