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exporting widescreen
I’m missing something basic here. I created comps with D1/DV/NTSC Widescreen. I’ve adjusted all my images to fit widescreen. It comes out 4×3.
my aspect ratio is 1024×768, but I thought choosing widescreen would give me a 16×9 format.
What am I missing? It’s too simple, right?
do i just need to adjust the ratio?
thanks, Geralyn
Geralyn
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When working in D1/DV NTSC (or PAL) widescreen, you get a “squeezed” 16:9 frame in a 4:3 format. That means that you can layoff that project to a regular miniDV tape (for example) and play it from a camera or a DV deck on a 16:9 screen and the image will look right, because the pixel aspect ratio is 16:9.
Hope that helps.Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
Oh, yeah, missed that detail- that is 4:3, so Dave may be right, somewhere something is not set right..
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.ennstudio.ro -
I think I was trying to create something I couldn’t. I’m not using shot footage, we’re creating a series of animations from stills. they will be displayed on 3 HDTV monitors running synchronously. some images span 2 or 3 monitors. So i was concerned about doing the squeeze 4×3 that unsqueezes in playback. I don’t know why, I just didn’t think it would work. We had to keep the resolution to 1024×768 because the source material did not allow us to go full HD. We’re playing back in MPEG 2.
So I think my best option is to produce at 1024 x 576.
Thanks for your input. Better planning next time.
by the way – do you think the squeeze to unsqueeze would have worked in this instance?
Thanks
Geralyn
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