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speedgrade output dimensions
Hello,
so I’ve recently been working with Speedgrade, I’m new but it seems pretty great for grading, though extremely limited if trying to do something unique. I am making a movie that is 1080×1920 in Premiere. I export and EDL and open it in SG. The original files I am working from are R3D 5k. SG displays the image in the monitor and the output as 1920 x 1080, not 1080 x 1920. Is there any way to retain the dimension, or specify a different dimension within SG? Or output a different dimension tat would translate through the EDL? Or any option or workaround at all for this?
Thanks and I will keep posting back as I make progress, assuming I do 🙂
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Short answer is no. Speedgrade is inflexible in that is primarily for standardized film and broadcast workflows.
Long answer is kinda. If this is vertical video filmed on a rotated camera, Speedgrade, so far as I can tell, won’t respect rotation in Redcine-X. You may need to render an intermediate.
Once you have your vertical intermediate, you can actually add more dimensions to Speedgrade’s output under the Framing section. There is a file called RenderSizes.fcps that you can add settings to.
For Windows it’s located in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe SpeedGrade CS6\settings and I’m not sure exactly where it’s located on Mac. It may be within the application package.
The line added will have this format:
description[tab]horizontal dimension[space]vertical dimensionSome text editors will turn a tab key into 3-4 spaces, this will not work, it must be a tab character.
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thank you so much, I am going to try it now! I am on a mac. Do you know if this is an XML formatted file? What I found was a User_Settings.xml file. I can’t seem to find anything else on my system, even hidden files, that would give me more access then what I am seeing in this XML, but I am not able to find any demsnion presets that I would be able to add a line item to. I have a feeling I am in the wrong file as the content is specific to the content of the file I am working on and not so much the system, though it has a lot of presets for the system as well, like file types supported, and window locations etc. Thoughts? Thanks again for the help here!
for anyone else on a Mac wondering where the file I am working with is located:
Documents/Adobe/Speedgrade/6.0/Settings/User_Settings.xml
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