[Dave Fleming]

I just wanted to add a final post to this thread. I began working with Matrox support in Montreal and they discovered that there was indeed a bug in the export to Media Encoder that would cause any Matrox sequence that happened to be 16:9 SD to be rendered 4:3. They are working on it. Thanks for your help, as always. For now, I’m just working in a DV NTSC Widescreen preset and bypassing Matrox altogether.

Dave

[Dave Fleming]

Sure…I’ll post a few. First, the AVI attempt…

Now, a QT approach…

Here’s a screenshot when I attempt to “queue” instead of “export.”

And finally, the image is always seem to end up with…incorrect pixel aspect ratio!

And remember, I’m showing you two examples. I’ve tried literally dozens of variations. all with the same result. I’m to the point where I’m wondering if this isn’t somehow tied up with my Matrox sequence preset…?

[Dave Fleming]

Sorry man, you’re missing it. I’ve been trying yours and many other formats/presets all day. Every setting I can browse through says that the sequence will be rendered at DV Widescreen. Trust me, I’ve got that selected every way from Tuesday. But, my resulting movie, no matter whether it’s QT, AVI or MPEG (all selecting DV Widescreen) is always .91 PAR–i.e. NOT DV Widescreen.

[Dave Fleming]

Thanks–that would be helpful! I’ve spent the last few hours plugging in format after format, preset after preset, only to get the same results.

Here’s what I need to do: I have a 720×486 widescreen sequence. I used a sequence preset from my Matrox MXO2 LE box. Everything in the sequence is 1.21 PAR. I need to get it to a Harris encoder so the files can be encoded for air. The Harris will transcode almost anything you feed it, so it doesn’t really matter what I output: MPEG, AVI, QT…as long as it’s NTSC SD full resolution 1.21 PAR.

So, to my eye, I was getting the best results when I chose “match sequence settings,” which greyed most other parameters out. And indeed, if the output would match sequence settings, I’d be golden. But, the AVI that spits out is .91 PAR (4×3). I have no idea why.

[Dave Fleming]

I’m running a Dell T3500 with a Xeon 3.47GHz CPU and 12gb of RAM.

I tried what you suggested and it did speed things up. But, now I’ve got another problem. My sequence is SD NTSC Widescreen. I chose “match sequence settings” to keep things at their highest quality, and it created an AVI file. The problem is that the resulting movie is .91 aspect (not widescreen) even though everywhere I look in Media Encoder it says it will be 1.21. Any suggestions?

[Dave Fleming]

Thanks! Don’t know how I kept missing that!

[Dave Fleming]

Thanks for the resoures, Todd. Looking forward to getting into them.

Dave

[Dave Fleming]

Thanks for the response, Walter. You’re right, the effect is impossible in anything other than a RAM preview situation. The vendor has admitted that and I’m waiting to see if things will be rectified or not.

Thanks for the further expalnation on the layer dupication. I will give that a try.

[Dave Fleming]

Thanks for the reply–yes, I’ve tried those already…the issue isn’t tied up in RAM, it has to do with hitting a size limit of 30000 pixels. If I back down the value on the motion tile, I lose information as there’s a fair amount of position keyframing going on in the precomp.

I’ve tried removing the motion tile altogether and just increasing the size of the solid, but again, I run out of real estate at 30000 pixels–any solid with a width larger than that gives me an error.

Here’s a post from a few weeks ago that deals with it…I just need some more information down this path:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/202/891259

Probably some poor schmo who bought the same template I did…

[Dave Fleming]

Thanks for the info John. Do you know if Sony has any demo models floating around or who I would contact?

df