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Only render square pixels?
Question here about rendering. Just FYI, I got all my video info from the Gspot program.
I have 16×9 1.2 par SD footage that I shot with my HDR-FX1. I bring this into AE and create a composition with NTSC DV widescreen 720×480 with a par of 1.2. I then interpret my footage as widescreen 1.2, and drag it to my timeline. I check the little box at the bottom of the preview window that toggles pixel aspect ratio correction. Everything works great and I get everything done just perfect.
Then I go to render. No matter what I seem to do, I can not get 16×9 footage with a 1.2 par out of After Effects. I have incessantly messed with the render queue settings and no matter what, every file is tall and skinny. Gspot tells me par of 1 EVERY time. Please help me here! I am dying over here
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Gspot is a simple program that tells you everything you want to know about a video file. Thats all it does. Check it out, its a pretty cool utility. But, that’s all it does, no conversion.
I know there is something I am just missing here, there is no way that after effects can’t export widescreen 16×9 NTSC 1.2 par footage. Someone please show me the light. -
[goodtimej] “I have incessantly messed with the render queue settings and no matter what, every file is tall and skinny.”
This sounds like your footage is being rendered out properly, but the program you’re viewing it with isn’t interpreting it properly.
Pixel aspect ratio has been covered time and time again on the forums, so I’d suggest you do a search if you’re worried about it. You don’t have a problem, you just think you do =)
NTSC DV will always render out at 720×480 pixels, it’s how those pixels are interpreted by the end device that determines whether it will be 16×9 (stretched 120% horizontally) or 4×3 (squashed 90% horizontally).
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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OK, you are right, I totally figured it out. Its just the way the software interprets it. Thanks.
Sometimes I just brainfart and this was that. I really did read everything.
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