16:9 ratio
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- Bullitt
gotta design some flash movies to this ratio.
what would this be in pixels?
anyone?
- ********0
16px by 9px or 32px by 18px or 64px by 36px and so on...
- vespa0
broadcast? 1024 x 576
otherwise to just get any 16:9 ratio, divide your height by 9 and then multiply that by 16 to get your width
- toulouz0
simple maths: just divide your pixel width by 16 and multiply by 9 to give the pixel height.
eg. say 600 width would be height 600/16x9 = 337.5 height
or 800 width would be height 800/16x9 = 450 height
- winter0
is there any pixel difference according to the video system (PAL or other)?
- JamesEngage0
listen to vespa
- vespa0
is there any pixel difference according to the video system (PAL or other)?
winter
(Jan 13 05, 04:05)with PAL you render your 1024x576 comps out to 720x576 and then your telly stretches the signal back out again.
HDTV is either 1280x720 or 1920x1080.
apparently with NTSC it's 864x486 but i don't know anything about NTSC.
- Bullitt0
oh shit..
Ive just designed all those movie clips to 1024x576.
And only just now found out that they need to be 720x576.
- vespa0
ahem didn't i tell you about that ages ago? hmmm?
don't worry shouldn't be a problem - just stretch them in the render. in the render queue under "output module", tick the stretch box, untick the "Lock Aspect Ratio to 16:9" box and change 1024 to 720
- winter0
hey vespa thanks for those tips. i missed it earlier.
- Bullitt0
Vespa, are you saying I can do that in flash?
- vespa0
just to be clear, you do actually have to design in 1024 x 576 and then stretch it to 720 x 576 in the render, cos if you design in 720 it's going to get stretched out fat at the other end on a widescreen.
- vespa0
oh sorry i thought you were in AE - i'm pretty certain you can stretch in flash too
- Bullitt0
Anyone any ideas how I do that?
- soda0
i never got my head around all that properly... it works, that's all I know... I still don't get why....!
- stewart0
you can stretch, but not the stage itself.
you have to put the entire movie with all the animations and elements in a movieclip called "stage_mc" or something
put that in frame 1 of the .fla and scale the movieclip.
BUT: i'm not sure about exporting a file like this to video is going well.
is it only exporting frame one, or also everyting in the movieclip that is in frame one??
- vespa0
this should do it: in your publish settings in flash under "quicktime", untick the "match movie" box and change the width to 720
- Bullitt0
you have to stretch the timeline to fit the entire clip.
- vespa0
haha soda me neither.
well i understand how it works in the broadcast sense but i don't understand what happens to those extra pixels!!
i mean 304 pixels is a lot to lose - i was really geeky when i was first trying to get my head around it and captured a frame from something i'd designed when it was being broadcast, then stretched it back out to see if they were somehow "hidden" but no, it stretched like a shitty motion blur effect so how comes you don't see that on your telly eh? WHERE DO ALL THE PIXELS GO?!
- soda0
WHERE DO ALL THE PIXELS GO?!
---------------heh!
it's like the motion design version of e=mc2.... it works but don't ask me to explain why!
It just is!
- vespa0
Bullitt, you're making extra work for yerself. just stretch it when you export the quicktime!