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  • Interprets everything square

    Posted by Matt Callac on October 24, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    all my NTSC(720×486 D1) footage is getting interpreted as square footage. AE just started doing this recently. within the last two projects. It’s rather annoying as I didn’t catch it at first and just spent 45 minutes readjusting all the masks after I reset the interpretation to D1. Does anyone know how to default it to D1 for video files or fix it so it interprets correctly. Also AE has never read my feild rendering, so I have to set that each time I do a project. Is that normal?
    -mattyc

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    Matt Callac replied 18 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Steve Roberts

    October 24, 2007 at 8:52 pm

    From this page:

    https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7f82.html

    The interpretation rules file (interpretation rules.txt) contains the rules that specify how After Effects interprets footage items. In most cases, you won

  • Matt Callac

    October 24, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    Thanks, I checked AE help and didn’t even see those three flyouts. I read though the rules found this one

    # soft rule; assume 720×486 formats with all frame rates have NTSC DV/D1 pixel aspect ratio
    720, 486, *, *, * ~ 648/720, *, *, *, *, *

    It does not seem to be doing it’s function since i’m still coming up square and not D1. Should I still try and modify the rule even though it’s already there?
    -mattyc

    Raising money for Blood:Water Mission to help build wells in Africa. I’m
    putting my hair on the line to raise some money.
    Check it out https://rattail.callac.com

  • Steve Roberts

    October 24, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    Just wondering — does it do this with more than one codec?
    What is the codec of your D1 footage, by the way?

  • Matt Callac

    October 24, 2007 at 9:55 pm

    I’m using quicktimes (MOoV) in Uncompressed YUV 8bit and 10bit (2vuy and v210 respectively).
    Those are currently the only two codecs i have on my machine.
    I just tried animation as well and got the same result. still coming in square.
    -mattyc

    Raising money for Blood:Water Mission to help build wells in Africa. I’m
    putting my hair on the line to raise some money.
    Check it out https://rattail.callac.com

  • Matt Callac

    October 24, 2007 at 9:57 pm

    I just found some DV/DVCPRO NTSC and that came in correctly. so it looks like it’s just my 720×486 files that it’s not liking
    -mattyc

    Raising money for Blood:Water Mission to help build wells in Africa. I’m
    putting my hair on the line to raise some money.
    Check it out https://rattail.callac.com

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