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Creating widescreen composition and exporting
I’m creating a video for both a widescreen plasma and an intro for a ppt presentation. For the sake of time, I’ll to make them both widescreen. Starting in Photoshop with the images, I used a preset document of “NTSC DV widescreen 720 x 480 with guides”. Then I took the psd files and threw them in a “NTSC DV Widescreen 720 480” comp in AE 6.5.
I exported the test movie as QT animation, millions colors and automatic keyframes.
Are these the best settings for both a widescreen plasma and a mpg in ppt? The reason I’m asking is because all my text and images looks to be horizontally condensed, like at around 90%. Does everything look fine when burned as to DVD and set to widescreen on a TV?
And since I’m making an mpg for ppt, do I need to export a wider setting than the 720 to make the images and text so they are NOT condensed? I know PPT doesn’t have a widescreen setting.
Can anybody help me out?
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Seeing as you built everything anamorphic using widescreen pixels (1.2) then the animation will need to be rendered in a square pixel environment for display on a computer screen i.e. powerpoint. So you have a few choices. You could drop the widescreen animation into a 640X480 or 720X540 square pixel comp and crop off the edges, or scale it to fit and “letterbox” the animation. Or you could build a comp at 864X486 (the square pixel environment for widescreen D1 footage) and render it with the animation codec or whatever. If this size is too big for powerpoint, you could always scale the size down keeping this proportion. Write back if you have any trouble.
Matt -
Thanks for the insight. What your saying is I make both my comp in Photoshop and AE 6.5 at 864 x 486. The comp in AE and PSD should be set at SQUARE PIXELS for the pixel aspect ratio not D1/DV NTSC Widescreen?
They don’t have a preset in Photoshop for that, do you know why? Why is it different and do you know the title safe and action safe areas for that 864 x 486 size?
Thanks
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