LED wall – odd aspect ratio

[Walter Soyka]

[Kevin Camp] ” just drop the 960×360 comp into a 720p comp and then choose layer>transform>fit to comp and render that.”

No need to fit it to the comp. It doesn’t have to fill the 1280×720 frame, it just has to fit within it. Staying 1:1 may be advantageous to avoid softening from scaling, given the low vertical resolution of the display.

Basically, Paul, you are slicing and dicing your very wide comp to fit in a standard video size, and then the Pandora tech will un-dice and un-slice to put it back together as you originally intended. It’s like this:

“ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ” is too long, so we rearrange it:

“ABCDEF
GHIJKL
MNOPQR
STUVWX
YZ”

And then just put it back together again on the other side.

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[Ivan Myles]

Here’s the detail to support the other comments:

i) Create the end video on a 5760×60 composition. Note that its center point is x=2880, y=30.

ii) Create a 960×360 composition.

iii) Drop the 5760×60 comp into the 960×360 composition six times and set the Position coordiates as follows:

1: 2880, 30 (far left on top)
2: 1920, 90
3: 960, 150
4: 0, 210
5: -960, 270
6: -1920, 330 (far right on bottom)

iv) Export the 960×360 comp, possibly with Adobe Media Encoder depending on the codec.

This approach allows you to focus on the final output in the 5760×60 composition without having to worry about splitting and synchronizing each slice.