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Widescreen format 720×480 question
Hello All, I need a little help. I am editing my first 16:9 (720×480 widescreen) project and have a question. The end output will play from a dvd to a 42″ Widescreen TV, I need to make sure that my files is set up correctly from the begining and I keep second guessing myself.
– When I work on my comps in photoshop and select the NTSC DV Widescreen 720×480, when I begin to design the look and feel, the type and graphics are distorted, not anamorphic, jagged edges.
– Then when I bring them into AE 6.5 to edit – new comp NTSC DV Widescreen 720×480.
When I toggle back in forth with the aspect ratio, the anamorphic looks good just smashed but the widescreen is still jagged.My question is – Is the reason the type is jagged in widescreen preview, because I am veiwing the project on my “square pixel” laptop (17inch powerbook)? So the final export should view fine on 16:9 screen.
If this is the case what is the best small widescreen tv to view this on for testing?
Any help would be outstanding, I am getting ready to spend some 80 hours on this project and it needs to be done right from the beginning. Thanks!
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[emfolzen] “My question is – Is the reason the type is jagged in widescreen preview, because I am veiwing the project on my “square pixel” laptop (17inch powerbook)? So the final export should view fine on 16:9 screen.”
Yes. Photoshop and AE are scaling the pixels by 120% horizontally to recreate how the footage will look on an NTSC Widescreen device. You get ‘jaggies’ whenever you scale digitally (as opposed to softening in analog which resampling attempts to do in the digital world). In the final output your ‘scaling’ will be done at the per-pixel level and it should look much better.
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