Using native HDV 1440 x 1080 in AE?

[Arthur Vibert]

I was perplexed by this as well. However, I just set up my composition to a standard HD 1920×1080 aspect ratio and stretched the HDV to fit. It worked just fine. If I was compositing graphics over live action in Final Cut I worked to the 1920×1080 aspect ratio and it dropped in just fine.

A word of warning – HDV is an okay acquisition medium. Try and avoid rendering to it, especially if you are re-rendering a live action HDV clip. Everytime you do this you recompress and introduce additional compression artifacts. It won’t look good!

Arthur Vibert

[Jaime Lackner]

Ok, I’m a little confused.
My client is going to be importing the graphics I create into his Final Cut Pro system.
But he told me that the size should be 1440 x 1080.
Are you saying it really doesn’t have to be that size?
Or the only way to do this is to create all my graphics in this HD 1920×1080?

When he goes to import the graphics, he’ll have to squeeze them to fit the 1440 x 1080, won’t that distort the graphics?

Thanks so much!
Jaime

[Arthur Vibert]

My experience was that there was no problem. What I would suggest is that you try a test – something simple to verify the sizes. Then if there’s an issue you can rejigger everything without having committed lots of time.

Arthur VIbert

[Marc Bauwens]

Try this for your settings:

Go into After Effects 6.5/Support Files/interpretation rules.txt and add this line to the bottom

1440,1080,*,”.AVI”,”CFHD”=”1440/1080/”HDV,l,*,*

Should work nicely;;;

Have fun!