how to cut for non conventional project sizes 1024×780????

[Troy E. parker]

hey Paul,

Yes this is possible….I am experimenting with a series of loopable backgrounds that are in this format. As I have not heard of any others doing this, I have come up with my own workflow…maybe not the best, but a place to start

I am guessing that you are looking to display the finished piece on a computer or projector?

What I am doing with good results on quality, but still working on final compression for playback (this size is within the HD resolution, though not True HD as to my knowledge not part of the spec… ‘Am I Right or Wrong on this ?..any takers?)

To make this happen you will need to set-up a sequence at the desired size, square pixel for computer, an appropriate non-ntsc type codec ( I am experimenting with photo-jpeg, animation, etc) for your render.

Basic Setting I am using:

1024 X 768
Square Pixel
Field Dom – none
RGB
30 frames / min
photo-jpeg 80% (still playing with the codec choice here)

Your source will need to be the same format/ frame rate etc as the timeline to avoid long renders and as the throughput is high, fast drive will be needed to avoid dropped frames. I am currently experimenting with outputting the source from a conversion timeline and then re-importing to the master timeline for the edit. As this is an unsupported format the Cinewave wants to render all transitions, layers etc….

I have been outputting as a mov and then re-compressing with Sorenson Squeeze as a Flash movie etc and no real decision here as to the best results for playback.

Hope this helps….and I think this may be a future growth area as we continue to mix video into presentations and similar.

Looking forward to hearing your results, and would welcome any additional thoughts from others….

Troy

[Stuart Simpson]

Can’t you just cut your sequence as a standard widescreen anamorphic sequence and then let the projector correct the aspect ratio for you?

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[Paul Nevison]

sorry further to this my canvas is actually 3072×768 a super duper widescreen projection wall. arrrggghhh

[Andwon]

I am working on a project at 1024×768; Hah! Mostly giving motion to hires photos.What is the best way to output it without any degradation in picture or text? Haven’t tried the jpeg codec but everyting else I’ve tried gives blocky text (FCP text) and yukky pictures. Eventually it needs to be output as a wmf and the image and text must be sharp as a knife. what to do? help!!!!!!
-andwon