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AE CS5 and DVCPRO issues
Hey everyone. This is my first post, but I am a frequent visitor of Creative Cow. Please help me if you can…
I recently upgraded to CS5 and have found a snag with After Effects and DVCPRO. I frequently work in and deliver to DVCPRO HD 720p60. When I bring the codec into AE, I tend to change my comp to square pixels and work at 1280×720. However, in CS5, when I go to render I get a little warning in the lower left corner inside my “render settings” dialogue box. It says…
Warning: Output file will be resized from 1280×720 (1.00 PAR) to 960×720 (1.33 PAR) to meet format constraints.
Now, I know that DVCPRO 720p60 is actually 960×720, but for some reason when I render anything out in this codec now, it plays back in quicktime at 4:3 and not 16:9. It seems that AE (CS5) is not telling the codec to use a 1.33 pixel aspcet ratio. I’ve tried resizing the render, playing around with the comp aspect ratio, etc. EVERY render comes out playing in 4:3. I can change it manually inside of quicktime’s settings, but I’m baffled that AE can’t do this now. I tested it in CS4 again, and it renders movies that display at 16:9 with this codec, no problem.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Mike Ritchie
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This answer did not work for me; I am having the same issue. The only difference is, I want it to be 1920×1080, but when I select “DVCPro HD 1080i60, it tells me the output file will be resized from 1920×1080 to 1280×1080. But I don’t WANT it to resize! I think I’ve tried every setting. Any help would be much appreciated!
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What other codec would you suggest? The only reason I am using DVCPro HD 1080i60 is that is the specification of the playback system, the Omneon, that our TD uses. Perhaps it takes other codecs.
I am using the Render Queue, that is where I get the ‘mismatch’ warning.
Any further help would be useful…I don’t know why this worked in previous versions and not in CS 5. In CS3, when I rendered DVCPro HD 1080i60 it came out 1920×1080. I wonder if the Omneon will then stretch it back to where it should be?
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What other codec would you suggest? The only reason I am using DVCPro HD 1080i60 is that is the specification of the playback system, the Omneon, that our TD uses. Perhaps it takes other codecs.
I am using the Render Queue, that is where I get the ‘mismatch’ warning.
Any further help would be useful…I don’t know why this worked in previous versions and not in CS 5. In CS3, when I rendered DVCPro HD 1080i60 it came out 1920×1080.
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What other codec would you suggest? The only reason I am using DVCPro HD 1080i60 is that is the specification of the playback system, the Omneon, that our TD uses. Perhaps it takes other codecs.
I am using the Render Queue, that is where I get the ‘mismatch’ warning.
Any further help would be useful…I don’t know why this worked in previous versions and not in CS 5. In CS3, when I rendered DVCPro HD 1080i60 it came out 1920×1080.
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Thanks for your help!
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