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FCP recognize png from PS as anamorphic
I am creating a series of astonishingly intuitive and brilliantly designed on screen graphics (ok, glorified powerpoint slides), and am editing in DVCPRO50 Anamorphic in FCP. I am using the photoshop preset for DV Widescreen, which sets the appropriate pixel aspect ratio for the PS doc. I am then saving them as PNG’s, and importing them into FCP. But then I need to manually tick the “Anamopric” check in the browser. Is there anyway for me to get FCP to automatically recognize them as anamorphic? I can do it by hand, but I’m going to have hundreds of them.
Should I not be using the PS presets, and just use a doc size of 854×480?
Thanks!
matt aka The Video Butcher
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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AFAIK there’s no way to have FCP set the anamorphic flag based on a PNG file. I would be inclined to make the graphics as square pixels.
Martin
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According with a recent post, it seems that PHS CS3 set a flag with the pixels aspect that FC can recognize.
Not in PHS 7 or CS2.
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[Rafael Amador] “According with a recent post, it seems that PHS CS3 set a flag with the pixels aspect that FC can recognize. “
Really? I have CS3 Extended. I’m guessing I’m using the wrong format to save in, then. Would you happen to have a link to the post that you found this in? Guess I’m guilty of not doing a thorough search of the forums before posting. I’ll slap myself on the wrist with a ruler for that one…
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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[Matt Gerard] “Is there anyway for me to get FCP to automatically recognize them as anamorphic? I can do it by hand, but I’m going to have hundreds of them.”
If you select all of your graphics, just right-click in the anamorphic column in the browser and select ‘Yes’. That applies the anamorphic tick to all of them.
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[Alex Elkins] “If you select all of your graphics, just right-click in the anamorphic column in the browser and select ‘Yes’. That applies the anamorphic tick to all of them.”
aaaHAAAAAA!!!!
Durn it, usually I right click on everything, just to see what happens, but I missed that one!
Just on the basis of knowing, it would be nice to know if there is a way to get FCP to do it for me as well. But this is the perfect way to make me smile for now.
Thanks!
MAtt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Hi Matt,
Here it is:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1008845#1008845
Just from last week.
Cheers,
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FCP doesn’t automatically check anamorphic on the Widescreen DV sized files from Photoshop CS3. With the HD 720p files from the previous post mentioned in this thread, the anamorphic check is not needed, but it is for widescreen DV.
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[Rafael Amador] “When you work in HD we are working with Square pixels”
Not neccessarily. DVCPROHD is not square pixels, in fact there are few HD formats that are true square pixels. Sad, really, i thought we would be able to get away from the non square nonsense. I think its mostly a layover from tape based HD. DVCPROHD was initally a tape based HD format, so to save bandwidth, they “anomorphized it” probably more complicated than that, but the end result is that it’s not square. Just go into PS and look at the pixel aspect ratio selections in the new documentbox. it shows what most of them are.
Bummer.
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Here’s a good article from right here on CC
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kolb_tim/formats.php
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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Thats a bit confusing for me. When you work in HD we are working with Square pixels. Don’t need to interpret the pixels in any special fashion to get 16×9. Anamorphic is related to a different kind of pixels…..
Rafael
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