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pal 16:9 widescreen procedures
as a designer working from home and new to after effects, I’m doing ok learning how to get the actual effects I want, but I keep getting stuck when it comes to the procedures for working in different formats. I need to read up on this, anyone now of some good links/resources for this?
The problem:
I have been asked to design an animation in pal dv widescreen 16:9… I’m used to working with standard pal (576×720) and know about the square pixel ratios, etc.
My problem comes with a pal dv widescreen 16:9. composition rendered from after effects – when i import it into final cut pro, it doesnt stretch it to fit the widescreen pal sequence (I have made sure the sequence settings in fcp are set to 16.9 but the videos width looks squashed) all pal sequences are 576×720 pixels – widescreen or not, so i’m guessing its something to do with pixel ratio settings
could it be that i’m not using the right setting to render from after effects or is there some other thing in final cut pro that i’m overlooking?
Please someone help me pay the rent this week!
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hi .. are you using the PAL widescreen pre-set when you make a new comp? I’d say it’s just a setting for how you view it in FCP. Like on our machines, it still looks stretched on the computer monitor, but then all OK on a broadcast monitor …. maybe FCP has a Pixel Aspect Ratio Corrector like AE does… ?
maybe you can render out a test and see how it looks in QT? it should still look squished, but at least fill the whole 720×576 frame. or even better, burn a DVD and see how it looks on the TV.
oh, if you find that it is actually not filling the screen… in FCP under motion settings there is Distort->Aspect Ratio …. try adjusting this….
hope some of this rambling helps 🙂
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