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Working with HDV
I set a new composition with the HDV settings (1440 x 1080) but once I create it doesn’t look anything like widescreen. It just looks like 4:3 aspect and once I import my HDV footages it looks squished. What am I doing wrong?
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you can just hit the pixel aspect ratio correction button at the bottom of the preview window.
hdv uses a pixel that is very wide (1.33 times wider than tall), but you computer only displays them as square so the image looks squished, the p.a.r. coorection will widen out the image, but will show artifacts (jaggy edges). these artifacts are only in the preview, your render will look fine when displayed on an hd, widescreen or letter boxed set.
alternately, you can work with a square pixel hd comp. in your case you would want a comp that was 1920×1080 with square pixels and the appropriate frame rate (normally 29.97 for 1080i). ae will automatically display your hdv footage (with a 1.33 px) correctly in the square pixel comp and every thing will look the way you think it should.
Kevin Camp
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So in After Effects I set my composition as 1024 x 768 (I’m working with HDV footage which is 1440 x 1080 and have scaled it down to 1024 x 768)
I’m working in correlation with Photoshop as I set a layout by 1024 x 768. If I set toggle pixel aspect ratio correction in After Effects it looks fine but once I export a still to photoshop it looks shrinked. And if I set the pixel aspect ratio in photoshop the image looks way bigger than 1024 x 768.
How would I go about doing this… I’m so confused lol.
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