[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks Steven,

Changing the pixel aspect ratio may be a problem, as this is an animation and it’s all done in square pixels from PhotoShop. Am I correct in thinking that by changing the pixel aspect ratio in Premiere it will distort the image? Perhaps I should do some more experiments!

Thanks again for your help!
-Cathy

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks Seven,

Changing the pixel aspect ratio may be a problem, as this is an animation and it’s all done in square pixels from PhotoShop. Am I correct in thinking that by changing the pixel aspect ratio in Premiere it will distort the image?

Thanks again for your help!
-Cathy

[Cathy Ralph]

Maybe this is in reference to the Premiere Pro CS3 public preview that’s been released by Adobe Labs.

[Cathy Ralph]

Nevermind – I figured it out by myself – I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before. I opened a new comp in PS 16 pixels wide by 9 pixels tall and then I went into image size and plugged 480 into the width with the proportion link on … the answer is 853 x 480! Hip Hip Hurray!!!!

[Cathy Ralph]

Nevermind – I figured it out by myself – I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before. I opened a new comp in PS 16 wide by 9 pixels tall and then I went into image size and plugged 480 into the width with the proprtion link on … the answer is 853 x 480! Hip Hip Hurray!!!!

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks for all the info! I’m going to do some experiments and see what I come up with.
🙂
-Cathy

[Cathy Ralph]

Hi moldyboot-

My destination is to circulate the finished short to festivals on standard DVDs (720 x 480) – but I just like the “look” of letterbox, so I thought this would create a faux widescreen effect without actually impacting anything for playback.

Thanks,
Cathy

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks Steve – there’s a couple small samples of what I’m doing on my studio blog at digitalbacklot.net

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks Dave- That’s a very good tip. One I had not thought of. I’ll hopefully have the Premiere and AE upgrades by next week and will use my first scene as a test case. Since these are pen and ink drawings there are a ton of fine lines in them – so I shall experiment and see what happens! Perhaps my findings will render (pardon the pun) the HD point moot after all and I can just work in SD 720 x 480.
-Cathy

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks Steve – I wanted to have an HD copy of the final short film for possible release to HD later. But my main form of distribution will be DVD. I was assuming (maybe I shouldn’t have) that I could scale down from 1280 x 720 to a letter box size that will work on a standard definition DVD. Is that possible? I won’t get my AE or Premiere Pro2 upgrades until next week, so I’m not clear yet of what my options are for output.

-Cathy