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Export from FCP to format with square pixels & alpha…?
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The only way to be sure is to preview it on a square pixel monitor (such as your computer). Why do they want square pixels anyway? What format is the final output? The easiest way to test all of this is to export a circle still image or movie in FCP using the circle generator at your pal dv settings. Then bring this movie or still into a square pix ae comp and render out at the final settings that they are going to use and view it on whatever kind of monitor they are going to view it on. If the circle looks symmetrical, you know you have the right settings, if the circle looks squished, then your settings are wrong and you must interpret accordingly in AE. You must view the final movie on whatever type of monitor/system the final delivery will be playing on.
Jeremy
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The movie (with alpha) is to be put into a flash presentation for the web. The .flv files are to be made in AE. My client believes were introducing artifacts when putting a D1/DV movie into After Effects when the final output of the composition is to be square pixels. I told him to just interpret my footage as->main->pixel aspect ratio: D1/DV while making the composition in AE Square pixels. Is he right, are we introducing artifacts this way?
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Are his findings based on reality of what he sees, or what he thinks might happen? Flash video is lossy anyway, that’s why it plays so well on the web. It sounds like you two are arguing apples & oranges. If you are using the dv codec, that is lossy, and then to go into ae and render to another lossy format, what is to be expected? Without seeing anything, I’m not sure what he means by artifacts and where he sees them or where they are coming from. Are you giving him the flash movie or are you giving him a higher quality movie?
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I am giving him Quicktime, animation codec with millions of colors+.
My source footage is, as stated before, DV50 PAL. I think what he means by artifacts is that the image seems softly blurred.
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