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very stupid question…
I should know this, but I never have to export stills…
Anyway, I need to export a few stills from a video and everytime i dump them, the pixel aspect ration gets messed up. The pictures look stretched horitontally. the people in the pictures look fat!!! Any one know how to fix this?
Also, I would appreciate any tips on how to make an exported image look better.
Brian
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No — this is square vs non-square pixels.
I’ve got an auto script in Photoshop to fix this…
wait — you’re talking about SLIGHT changes… right?
CaptM
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I know that in Premiere Pro when you export a still, you have the choice to export the pixels as square (picture) or as 0.9 (video). It looks like FCP only exports the video dimensioned pixels. This is fine if the picture is going to play back AS VIDEO, but if I just want a still (say to e-mail) It is stretched pretty bad.
I know that I go and tweak and adjust stuff in photoshop, but that’s a hassle seeing as I have to export about 50 stills from this project.
Any way to adjust the FCP settings to that this is taken care of apon export?
Brian
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Brian,
All you have to do is put the still in Photoshop and change the height only, make it 540. You’re done. You need to do this for DVD menus as well, that is if you lift a still from your video.
Have a wonderful day.
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I don’t see a square pixel option in fcp so you’ll have to do it in photoshop. What I do is set up the adjustment as an ‘action’. That’s where you record all of the steps of the adjustment (i.e. open file, adjust image size, click ok, save file). After I’ve done recorded the action, then I can ‘batch process’ (under ‘File>Automate’) all of the stills in that folder. This will run the action on all of the images in that folder.
This is also great for applying a certain set of photoshop filters to video. Just export your video as a ‘targa sequence’; develop an action for the first still, then ‘batch’ the rest of the images of the targa sequence. Open Quicktime Pro, File>Open Image Sequence, (why, oh why isn’t this option in FCP???) and save as a quicktime file.
pxlmvr
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that sounds like a good solution. I’ll give that a try…thanks!
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If you have Photoshop CS, you don’t have to adjust image size. Go to Image>Pixel Aspect Ratio>Drag to D1/DV NTSC (0.9). Very easy and you can adjust the pixel aspect ratio all day long with need to ever adjust the actual image size.
If you have a ton of pics to do it to, then for sure use the batch method. What a time saver that is!
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