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pixel aspect madness
Okay, back in the day I used to know DV to Avid but now…
We have footage in HDV, DVCPRO HD (soon to be our main acquisition format), DV and Photoshop pictures and graphics.
How do I keep a circle a circle in all of this? We’re mixing and matching 4 different pixel aspect ratios…it’s nuts.
What should we be building in After Effects? We’ll be bridging projects in Premiere that are DVC PRO HD with AE projects, so I figure that is basically what we are operating in. Our output is either directly to windows media, or something else, and then to windows media. We have 39 in house HD LCD’s to fill so a circle should stay a circle all the way through to our final output. The LCD’s playback windows media files through an attached PC.
It’s confusing the bejeesus out of us right now. Any advice?
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i think it probably easiest to keep things square in photoshop and make sure the square pixel images get handled correctly when taken in to ae and premiere (and any other software that uses non-square pixels).
it sounds like dvcprohd will become the standard broadcast preset for you in both pp and ae, the only issue my be if you have some systems that can’t do 16:9 (you should be able to get sd widescreen into your hd workflow pretty easy, jsut make sure your field settings are correct, you don’t want to scale with fields, you can re-add fields in ae at render time).
the most important thing is to make sure the various pixel aspect ratios are handled correctly when they are imported, if they are adobe’s software should handle the conversions seemlessly.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
just remember to never set the par to something it isn’t. You should AE should properly interpret anything that comes from photoshop as square pixels if the images are not a standard non square pixel frame size.
Let AE match the par and you’ll be fine. try and second guess and everything will probably get fouled up. If you get really confused just open up a square pixel comp and start dropping footage into it. Anything that’s not properly interpreted will look squished.
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