Joey Foreman
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By the first “video output” I meant for external display on a monitor.
By the second I meant rendering for broadcast. -
Okay, look. We just established that using p.a.c. causes visible edge artifacting with this footage – therefore you have to use a broadcast monitor to see it full quality.
I’d say that Final Cut does a great job of displaying it on the computer, without the need to toggle a switch to tell it to display it in the proper aspect ratio.
Let me ask you this. What video footage format do you personally work in?
When you import that footage and drag it to the make comp icon, do you then have to toggle p.a.c. just to be able to see a jagged aliased version of it in an approximation of sort of how it might look in the right aspect ratio?
Or is the default “approximation” you get good enough to do color keying, rotoscoping, and everything else that AE is meant for?
You might remember a few years ago when AE had no video output?
I guess it really wasn’t suitable for video output then since it actually only displayed an “approximation” of how the video would look.
Why is it so hard to understand that all i’m asking is for the ability to take DVCPro footage, drag it to the make comp icon, and have the result be a normal quality – non aliased – proper aspect ratio displayed image in the comp window?
Pixel Aspect Correction is not an acceptable substitute for a custom square pixel comp. Not if you’re doing greenscreen work, or just prefer that your footage not look like jagged crap. -
FCP takes the square comp renders just fine.
I don’t always have access to a monitor for previews, so I kind of like my footage to be displayed properly.
I guess the point of my original question is why can’t AE just display the footage the way it’s supposed to look without jumping through so many hoops?
Quicktime player calls the footage 1280 x 720.
AE and FCP call it 960 x 720, but at least FCP knows how to display it by default. -
Here are the links:
1. Default, p.a.c.
https://webpages.charter.net/joey848/DefaultComp_PixelAspectCorrection.tiff
2. 1280 x 720 comp, Square pixels, no p.a.c.
https://webpages.charter.net/joey848/1280×720%20Comp_Square%20Pixels.tiff
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Jeez, I can’t get the images to post. Do they have to be jpg?
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I’ve taken the same footage and made comps using both methods.
1. Default comp, p.a.c. on.
2. Dropped footage into 1280 x 720 comp, square pixels, p.a.c. off.
The 1st one, while not distorted, shows considerable edge artifacting. Compare to the 2nd.
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um…maybe read my first response again.
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Like what?
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So hard to do, especially getting the keyframe ease to match the iris pull.
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I think it’s spelled ganja.