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Widescreen: 864×480 into 720×480 (1.2 pix asp)?
I have been doing a lot of looking around and trying to figure out how to solve a problem I have. I need to make a DVD with 16:9 aspect ratio. Everywhere I look on the forums people are saying the best thing to do is make a square pix comp of 864×480. Then drop this into another comp of 720×480 1.2 pixel aspect ratio. The math adds up (1.2 x 720 = 864). However, when you put 864 pixels wide into a 720 pixel wide comp you lose some pixels. I made a photoshop file 864×480 (square pixels). In the file I made verticle lines 3 pixels wide and spaced them out by 2 pixels and repeated the entire length. I then brought this into after effects. I added it to a 864×480 square pixel comp. It looks the same. But when I added it to the 720×480 (1.2 aspect Widescreen DVD) comp it looked horrible. All of the lines were blurry and it looked BAD. Is this really the best way to make a DVD widescreen. Wouldn’t it be better to work in 720×480 (1.2 pixel aspect) than make it bigger and get blurry lines.
Thanks in advance.Joel
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I’d work in a comp set to the DV widescreen preset, and switch on Pixel Aspect Ratio correction while working, to make circles look like circles. Then I’d switch PAR correction off for rendering.
If you can, look for Rick Gerard’s “Dr. Strangepixel” tutorial on the COW.
Steve
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