Pixel Aspect Ratio MADNESS

[Zeke Meginsky]

Thanks. What if I’m just going to show the picture with no movement? Should I still bring it into After Effects for the ease of the PAR correction?

I’ve been getting really confused in Photoshop as to how I’m supposed to set the pictures up..

[Zeke Meginsky]

Okay. They will be used in a Final Cut Pro project. I’m going to just show some of them on the screen while someone else talks about them. It’s used in a documentary-type project, and the final output will be DVD, regular size (not widescreen).

[Zeke Meginsky]

Okay. Good idea, I’ll have to figure out the Image Sequence thing. Still learning AE. Thanks.

[Steve Roberts]

Dave’s right. As long as you interpret a square-pixel photo as that, AE will import it at proper proportions. When you drag it into a DV non-square pixel comp, AE takes care of the business and has your back. If you want to scale the pic, scale it uniformly. You may have some cropping.

Look up pixel aspect ratio correction as well.

[Zeke Meginsky]

Hey Dave. If I rendered a PNG sequence and did what you said, set them at 1 frame each, to get all these still images in the right ratio for use in the project, what would the file be like coming into FCP? Would it be just a movie, or would all the images be separate files?

I’m confused because you talked about the FCP preferences settings being changable as far as the default length, but what settings are these? Settings for PNG sequences? And where are they? Thanks.

I’m just trying to understand what I’m going to do ahead of time (I don’t have a lot of time with this computer that has AE).