Working In 16:9 In PI

[Jonathan Decker]

Set your stage area to 740×480 with a pixel ratio of 1.2

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[Jeff Polster]

Thanks for the quick reply. Now how does one set the pixel ratio. I see no setting for this in the program.

Sorry to be so dense.

JP

[Sbilf]

Hi all,
I have the same question, but I work in PAL, so I work in 720×576…need I to set pixel aspect ratio to 1.2 too? This mean square pixels or anamorpfhing setting?
Thank you, Max.

[Alan Mills]

I asked the same thing in my early days. Read the thread at

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=109988093675433&forumid=23&archive=_2004|1|0

It helped me a lot.

[Alan Lorence]

pI3 currently supports only square pixels.

Alan.
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[Jeff Polster]

Is this to say that you can’t work in 16:9 in PI 3?

[Jeff Polster]

Thanks for your trail of posts on this subject. I use Liquid
Edition 5.62 and Particle Illusion 3 and in NTSB. I’m surprised at how much work this appears to be. I’ll try to get this to work using what you’ve sent.

I hope Wondertouch can make this easier in the next release. 16:9 is going to be more and more common and PI 3 is a great program. It would be a shame if it didn’t get used more because it’s hard make it work in 16:9.

[Steven L. gotz]

What is hard about using square pixels? I must have missed something.

It seems to me that my only problem with 16:9 is figuring out how to get a 1920X1080 stage on a Monitor screen that is too small to do so.

I have to work at 50% or so just to fit it all in.

Steven
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[Bas Wolters]

Can you make PI work for your 4:3 projects? In NTSC a square pixel is ‘converted’ to a 0.9 ratio pixel for 4:3 projects and to a 1.2 ratio pixel for 16:9 projects. This ‘conversion’ is done by your editing program and there is no need to do this in PI.

As a comparison, digital photo cameras only use square pixels and don’t offer 0.9 or 1.2 pixel ratios. But that doesn’t stop anyone from importing photos into their videos, right?

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Hi Everyone – I will figure this out, later today. I have a method of figuring out how the square pixel equivilent of a non-square comp. I have to go to the hospital for my dad this morning, but hopefully be back later today.

Fear not, this shouldn;t be a big deal, and probably isn;t – it just takes a little figuring out. Once you know, though, it’s no big deal.

Aharon

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