[Chris Wright]

59.94 px/sec. not 59.97 px/sec.

other fixes, bigger, bolder fonts and multiples of frame rate reduce flicker.

[Chris Wright]

oh i know what it is, your stretching the effect size from a small font size, instead, you should use a big font and stretch it less.

[Chris Wright]

if its just white balance, color correction can fix that easy, if not, use color replace with masks.

[Chris Wright]

if you have render multiple frames simultanesouly on, PNG’s fail, they are not thread safe. turn off multiproc or use TIFF or PSD instead.

[Chris Wright]

In the immortal words of Tom Cruise, “Help me, help you.” What did you capture with? fps, interlaced? resolution, bitrate, chrominance, alpha, etc…?

Many people use Color Finesse because it doesn’t have the 8bpc bottleneck a lot of the cheap solutions use.

Cineon sequences are individual images that use log based luminance to store color in 32bpc, good enough for working with film based 35mm color correction.

[Chris Wright]

yes, AE mpeg encoder bypasses the stretch filter. It’s dumb, i know.

[Chris Wright]

“if you set the Kona Gamma preferences to Rec 601(2.20), the FCP/AE/FCP workflow actually works using DNxHD set to 601RGB codec. If you are just staying within FCP the ProRes codec is fine but do not use it to pass QT to other programs. If you do need to pass it to AE and it is short use Anim 100. If the sequence is long use DNXHD 601 (2.20).”

common fix:
animation to remove color change and use 23.976 fps for text flicker.

alternative color fix
someone recommended aja 212 codec

[Chris Wright]

Try precomping and stretching the precomp, not the render stretch.

[Chris Wright]

You could warp the image a micro bit each frame over time with puppet tool so it matches final loop perfectly if you can’t do a reshoot.

[Chris Wright]

By your title, it sounds like you want to stretch from a square pixel to a widescreen pixel, 4:3 to 16:9, there would be no problem, just black on the sides.

Is your footage squished or stretched and what is it supposed to be? 4:3 is square, so if I assumed that you accidently switched the ratios backwards and were trying to go from widescreen to square, you would have to choose from these 3 professional approaches to this common squished look problem.

-Variable

Fit the input image to the output size. If the
input and output resolutions do not have the
same aspect ratio, the output image is stretched.

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-Crop

Fit the input image into the output resolution
without distorting it. If necessary, the input
image is cropped to preserve the aspect ratio.
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-Pad

Fit the input image into the output resolution
without distorting it. If necessary, the aspect
ratio is preserved by surrounding the output
image with a black border.