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if you are planning to play it back on a widescreen TV then that is correct. Televisions have rectangular pixels, so it will stretch itself back out. Computer Monitors have square pixels, so it looks like people are squished. If you don’t have a broadcast monitor hooked up then maybe burn it to DVD and play it back on the TV and you will notice it looks OK.
Check out the After Effects tutorial section here and I’m sure there are a couple articles on Pixel Aspect Ratio.btw, there is a button somewhere in after effects called “Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction” or something like that, it will let you preview your footage without it looking squished
Michael Duff –
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you mean you already have footage and you want to change it’s aspect? or you want to change the aspect ratio of a composition? (Ctrl-k) . Can you explain what you are doing a bit more?
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I would hope that when the editor took the transitions out they left the handles on the clips. If so just render it out as what you normally would. QT Animation, or BLackmagic or whatever the editor prefers. THen I’m guessing they will chop up your render and put the dissolves back in that way.
Michael Duff –
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if he wants them as files because he doesn’t have a deck/camera – why don’t you get them to buy an external HD (or two) instead of burning 200 DVDs? It would save you the time of burning DVDs and be easier to manage the files.
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“Now my main question is about step 2. In their video they used shatter to cleanly break apart their logo text into individual characters. When I use shatter I can get it to ‘somewhat’ follow the character structure but mine always has hundres of tiny shattered pieces, “
use the boxes as the shatter map instead of just using filled in text. This way I have found you don’t get the little bits of shatter around the letters. Just make sure that one box covers one letter.
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oh yeah, didn’t see those…not exactly what I want but that’s probably the best we’ll get
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rather than just tinting the text black and white to make the shapes, if possible, I prefer to make each letter into a black box…. so each box covers one letter onle and doesn’t overlap. sort of like this (but obviously the boxes would line up with the letters underneat)
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you could pre-compose all your layers, then reverse that composition.
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select all layers – Ctrl-A
pre-comp – ctrl+shift+c – select move, and name it something
reverse – select layer and press ctrl+alt+rthen just render normally
Michael Duff –
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I DO understand where you are coming from – I posted a very very similar question on here about a year or so ago when I was taking on my first freelance job. But honestly there really is no ballpark figure until you sit down with them and find out exactly what they want. How heavily treated to they want the footage, are you going to add animations/graphics – how was the footage shot? do you have a deck or will you need to rent one? do you own all the required software already? Are you doing mates rates? You really could spend anywhere from $500 – $500,000 just on a music video.
If they don’t really know what they want, and are going to be happy to let you take creative control – then you could use it more as piece for your portfolio. Maybe just charge a couple grand (or less) – and just spend as much time on it as you want. Then next time a client comes along you will have a better judge of time/cost. It’s just frustrating when you under quote for a job and it ends up dragging on for months and months with a really difficult client, and then in the end you only have a few hundred bucks.
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also when shooting it make sure you don’t have the automatic aperture/light balance (I’m not sure what the correct term is) – do it manually, otherwise it will adjust itself depending on what is in shot…… a camera person can probably explain that better.