[Brittnell Anderson]

This is for a hand-held game system as well as computer.
Not to NTSC and/or DVD.

Yes, for NTSC, we render out 720×540 from Max.

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Man, I can’t wait for NTSC to die.

[Brittnell Anderson]

Yeah, that all makes sense.

We were actually running into this issue when bringing the AE comp output into a Premiere project, where the majority of footage was straight out of 3DS Max (@ 720×480 1.0) and the project settings to match (720×480 1.0).

I didn’t think to have my editor turn off Premiere’s “use image pixel aspect” for these files. Works, but still kind of strange that these products assume that what you set your output at is not really what you want.

[Brittnell Anderson]

Yeah, this is using “custom” settings.

720×480
Square Pixels
30fps

Images used in the comp are also 720×480 Square Pixel .tgas (rendered out of 3DS Max).

Render settings are the same, with no stretching, scaling, or anything else. I just can’t get it to write out anything but .9 pixel aspect for these image sizes… interestingly, making the comp 720×481 makes it render correctly (square pixels).