Problems with 3ds max tiff-sequence

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

WHen you drop a footage item onto the create new comp icon, the newly created comp’s resolution and duration adheres to those of the footage item. What you want to do is to manually create the composition and choosing one of the presets to suit your needs.

HTH
RoRK

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[Bernd Rottenbuch]

Thank´s for the reply. I exported the image-sequence with a pixel-aspect of 1,42. Doesn´t this mean that the new comp created with this sequence should also have a pixel aspect of 1,42?

Is it possible, that I´ve to manually rescale the image-sequence in after-effects? Which means, I exported the images out of 3dsmax with a pixel aspect of 1,42, which gives me a kind of squezed look.
Then I imported them into afterEffects, created a new comp with the settings set to Pal 1,42. I place the sequence on the comp and resize it´s width to 142%.
If I do, everything looks fine to me, except when I export it as a h.264 quicktime movie (because of the filesize), or do I have to use the dv-pal setting for exporting it properly (which seems to make sense)?

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Stefan Haas] ” I exported the image-sequence with a pixel-aspect of 1,42. Doesn´t this mean that the new comp created with this sequence should also have a pixel aspect of 1,42?”

With 1:42 PAR source, you have the option of continuing your work in
1) a 1:42 PAR comp
2) a 1:1 PAR comp

I have a preference to always work in a 1:1 PAR comp regardless of my sources (as per option 2 above). Should I need to deliver/render out to a non 1:1 PAR movie, I will continue to work in a 1:1 comp until I am done. However, before rendering, I will nest this 1:1 PAR comp into an anamorphic comp(non 1:1 PAR comp) and apply the “Fit to Comp” command.

I hope this post answers your questions in terms of working with non PAR sources. Others may prefer to work with non 1:1 PAR to suit their source footage but I won’t go that route since I do not see sufficient benefit over all aspects of post, to do so.

What I can’t tell you is which PAR you should render out to. Let us know what your final render is meant for? DVD? Computer delivery? Output to tape? If you are sending the movie to an editing software, you will want to render out to the project settings that have been set within the software for the current project.

YOu should also read up on Rick Gerard’s COW tutorial/article on Pixel Aspect Ratio.

Cheers
RoRK

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