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Bizarre Square Pixel Format?
Hi,
a production house has delivered material – supposedly from a digibeta tape – in a pixel-format I have never seen before, and thus I smell a skunk… i.e. someone made a mistake.
The PAL file is automatically flagged in AE (CS4) as being:
720 x 576 (1.0) – SQUARE pixels.
This is not a graphic but live footage. I always assumed 768 x 576 is the proper size for square pixel PAL… or am I wrong?
What could be the source of this material: the bums at the production house are playing dumb… no info there.
Should I change the material interpretation to standard PAL 1.09 ? This stuff has to be rendered on the weekend, and nobody is claiming responsibilty for the client.
Any hints? Somebody seen this format before? -
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Thanks for the response, Dave.
It appears that CS4 was intepreting the file incorrectly. In any case, over at a workstation with CS5 the file shows up as what one would expect, 1.09/720×576.Strange tho’ is that AE is still insisting that this uncompressed AVI is with “LOWER” field first. I have never seen that in uncompressed, only upper or none.
So something is still fishy. I hate it when you get garbage or no info from clients and have to spend extra energy doing unpaid detective work!hoping for the best,
Ninetto
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