16:9 in AE help please!
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- ironmachin
I'm am working on a music video with footage shot on the Panasonic SDX 900. Its was shot 30fps progressive 16:9 so has no fields. I've never worked in this format before. I usually work at 720x540 square pixles then place eveything in a 720x486 comp to go to digibeta.
What is the best way to get the footage in my project? I was wondering if I could bring the footage into my 720x540 comp and scale it to the right ratio and put in the letterbox. Is this the way to go? It is all shot on greenscreen and composited with 3d and 2d graphics so I would like to work on it in square pixles to see is undistorted. Then put the whole thing into a 720x486 comp at the end for final output.
If you could let me know if I'm going about this right and what percentage to scale the footage that would be great!
- eggo0
111% upscale in 720x540
- ironmachin0
That gets the footage to 720x540 but its still distorted. The guy captured it on avid at 720x486 so its stretched vertical. What would I scale it down to get it to the letterbox size?
- avex0
in AE 5.5, in your comp window, if you click the little triangle in the top right hand corner, and then choose "view options" and then check "pixel aspect ratio correction", then it might fix your distortion??
i think 6 does this automatically from the presets?