Bad aspect ratio in acroread

I have just made my SUSE 10.0 Linux box to a dual head system and I am getting a bad aspect ratio when displaying documents in acroread. Has any one seen this problem. The documents display with the correct aspect ratio when I use xpdf. This problem didn't exist unitl after I switched to a dual head system.
I am using an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT graphics card.

Fred, This is a known issue with the 7.x versions of the Adobe Reader. This would be fixed in the 8.x release, expected sometime in the middle of the year.
-vc

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Iphoto bad aspect ratio

Hello,
IPhoto modified some of my pictures giving them a bad aspect ratio. Here is one of them. It's normally a portrait picture.
I'm sure that concern a corrupted Aspect Ratio data in the picture. Do you know a way to correct them ?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Yann

Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - from the resulting first aid window repair permissions and if necessary rebuild your database
LN

Bad Aspect Ratio from Compressor with DVCPROHD clips.

I created a 30 minutes long sequence in FCP using DVCPRO HD 720p24. I exported the sequence as a QuickTime movie using current settings... the QuickTime export looks perfect and playback displays the proper aspect ratio. I then sent this file to Compressor 3 with standard presets for AppleTV and iPod Video (large and small).
They all turned out with an incorrect (elongated, not squished) aspect ratio. All three exports. The source file looks fine but it is the main suspect as all conversions yielded the same result. Any suggestion on what can be wrong with the exported file or with the compressor 3.0 settings? Before installing Compressor 3, I did exported the file using QuickTime Pro and it turned out with the correct aspect ratio. Clips properties show correct display dimensions.
Thanks!

I believe this is an (annoying) issue with QuickTime's Conform aperture property. For some reason, the Final Cut Studio apps do not write to this property. QuickTime Pro does, which is why those exports are the correct display ratio.
For DVCProHD material, opening your Compressor (or FCP or Motion) created movie in QT Pro and setting that property to Clean snaps the display of the movie in QT to 1248x702 (accounting for - and cropping - the overscan and blanking areas), while setting it to Production should give you the 1280x720 frame you desire.

Move rejected to trash changes aspect ratio of a clip

I just switched from iMovie HD to iMovie '11. I imported all old projects that I did not yet work on into the new version. This worked fine and I created my first movie successfully. For the current movie I have a lot of raw material in the format of 16:9 (DV). So I rejected parts of a clip and moved these to the trash in order to free space. But after moving the rejected parts, something happend to the aspect ratio of the remainder of the clip. The remaining clip is now distorted to 4:3 (black bars to the left and right, image distorted in height). All other clips are still in 16:9 and the projects settings tell this, too.
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Many thanks,
Erik

It sounds like that in the process of deleting the first half of the clip, the Anamorphic flag was stripped off.
You should be able to fix this in MPEG Streamclip, which is free.
In iMovie, right-click on the Event clip with the bad aspect ratio. Select Reveal In Finder. Drag this clip into Mpeg Streamclip.
In mpeg streamclip, FILE/EXPORT TO DV.
Choose 16:9 as aspect ratio and leave everything else the same.
Import this clip back into your imovie project. When you are sure all is well, you can delete the other one.

Really bad text quality,photoshop, is it pixel aspect ratio?

when doing dvd's i often use psd files for menus or title boards, quite often at 16x9, now the problem lies with the quality of the text in photoshop and when transferred to dvdsp. In photoshop with a 1024 x 576 sq pixel canvas the text looks crisp and sharp, however when transferred to dvdsp the text feels like it has gone through a verticle interlace, each letter is chopped up and shifted stretched and compressed. Going back to photoshop and making a 720x 576 comp with a widescreen pixel aspect ratio seems to do the same thing but this time in photoshop aswell. The text quality problem is not the usual dvd compression issue that is frequently discussed on these boards where text looks fuzzy, this looks much worse than fuzzy or jpeggy
Is there a standard, a combination of aspect ratio and canvas size in both photoshop and dvdsp? It is really frustrating.
Thanks in advance
Henry

My issue is particular to the crossover between photoshop and dvdsp, it may also be particular to pal dvd's and relating to the pixel aspect ratio, if you try and create a 720 x 576 document in photoshop with widescreen aspect ratio turned on and try adding text you will notice the issue. This also crosses over into dvdsp no matter what i do unless the image uses square pixels in p/shop the text is awful. I was really wondering if anyone else had found a combination of setups that avoid this wierd occurance in both programs.
The issue is not the standard 'my font looks bad on an apple display' issue which is often discussed on this forum, i understand that apple display resolutions are so far superior to standard def tv's that it is impossible to compare. The typesize on these projects are 24pt bold sans serif so well above the 18pt generally accepted standard and the canvas size is pixel perfect for pal resolution no images have been reduced or enlarged. The font looks almost illegible rather than just fuzzy.

Aspect Ratio in Comp is good, looks bad though

Hello, I'm working in Final Cut Pro (mac). I'm exporting my timeline sequence as 1440x1080i Quicktime Movie using the Apple Intermediate Codec (1.3 Pixel Aspect Ratio). Now I launch After Effects, import this file, from the Bin I drag this file on top of the New Composition Button so it creates a Composition to the same settings as my source file. I go to the Composition Dropdown Menu, click Comp Settings and confirm that I'm at 1080i with a 1.3 pixel Aspect ratio, the lock to 4:3 button is not checked.
Why in After Effects does my video look like Full Screen 4:3 video?
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Under Render Settings:
Under Time Sampling I select 'Lower Field" (for interlaced footage)
Under Output Module:
I select Format Settings and switch to Apple Intermediate Codec and select HDV 1080i.
Now I import this file into Final Cut Pro and it looks fine except there is a small black border on the right side of my footage, as if a few pixels of black were adopted in this process. Though this bugs me it's not the main problem.
Lastly I send this footage from Final Cut Pro to a color correction program called Color. Color reads all of my clips from Final Cut Pro with no problems, but when i send a clip that came from After Effect, though all of my Comp settings are correct, Color reads the footage as 4:3 Full Screen (just like After Effect previews it). 2 small examples to confirm this last point. If I send 1080i footage from Final Cut Pro into Color, it maintains it's aspect ratio. If I send footage from Final Cut that has been modified in After Effects to Color, it does not maintain it's Aspect Ratio, it changes to 4:3.
I have a feeling this is a long shot, can you see any problems in my workflow? Is there a known issue? Any ideas?
Thanks for your time, i know this was a long one.
-Monty

Well, your AE thing is easily explained: You are not using the pixel aspect ratio correction for the comp viewer, hence it will look incorrect. As to why it is messed up once you export, I have no clue. I'm using my Mac and in particular FCP way too rarely to be of any help here. I could dare a guess and say there's some Advanced Option in the CoDec somewhere that's responsible for it or an interpretation setting in FCP, but it's really nothing more than a stab in the dark.
Mylenium

Clip Notes aspect ratio wrong

I have AE CS3 on an Intel 8. Would like to use Clip Notes for low-rez approvals, but when I render a Quicktime movie in 3 x 4 aspect ratio (like most video) when I open the pdf in Acrobat Reader 8.1.2, it stretches it to 16 x 9. Checked all the preferences and view options and can't find anything to change it. Searched through the render options in AE, and can't find anything in there either. Tried the NTSC presets, tried using Stretch, nothing makes any difference.
Also, the audio sounds very bad. I've seen demos of Clip Notes that looked great, but demos usually do.
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RD

Sorry, that was a typo. Since then I've done more tests. The default size ClipNotes wants for regular video is 640 x 480. But when I render it that way in AE-CS3, and open the PDF in Acrobat 8.1.2, it gets stretched to widescreen. There seems to be no way to control this. So then I go back, nest the 640 x 480 in a comp that is 854 x 480, which is the default size ClipNotes specifies, and render it with black pillars on the sides. When I open this PDF, it looks correct and not stretched. I can live with the black pillars until they fix this.
BUT, the fatal flaw is, the audio. It sounds terrible, like the music is doing a constant phase-shifter effect. I tried it at 48 and 44 kHz, and made sure the settings matched in the output module and the ClipNotes audio settings, and it made no difference.
Thanks for your thoughts on this, but do people from Adobe ever read these posts? I have read several posts about this audio problem here and on Creative Cow. I hope they fix it or tell me what to do soon. Try it with a clip that has music, and you will immediately see what I am talking about.

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I find occasionally when I import a movie into Logic 9 the aspect ratio goes out of whack. The same clip opens fine in Quicktime. I can uncheck 'Keep Aspect Ratio' in the video settings and rough the ratio into something that looks normal again but I have to do the same thing everytime I open the project. Is there a way to work around that?
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Duane

I have a similar problem with clips shot in "cinema" mode in a JVC camcorder. I have been able to edit them in the older iMovie HD version, but not in iMovie 09. If Apple doesn't address this problem, I'm not going to have much use for the 09 version, which is too bad because it has desirable features.
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How can I make itunes play my 5:4 aspect video (720*576) in 16:9? Right now I convert them to 720*404 to get the correct aspect ratio but that seems like a bad idea.
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You can't. iTunes itself only plays a movie at the aspect ratio that the movie is provided in and cannot override. If you want your movie to play at 16:9, you'll have to convert the movie to the correct resolution, cropping the frames if necessary. I'm not sure what the point would be, though; the movie content is only the aspect it is, and changing it isn't going to give you any more picture in the frame than it has now.
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OSMF ScaleMode.ZOOM is distorting aspect ratio

So, I have a video of dimensions 216x360.
My display area (and hence the dimensions of my swf) is 562x395.
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I have the exact same problem!
I have an LG television and only one STB, so I initially thought that I might have accidentally changed my aspect ratio setting (until I realized there wasn't a single button to accidentally press to do that!).
My DVD plays fine through my TV, so the TV isn't totally broken.
I called Verizon and they couldn't do anything, they suggested trying the box to another TV and everything worked!
Next I plugged by STB to the original TV and the problem resumed.
Then I skipped by BOSE surround sound tuner and plugged my HDMI cable straight from the STB to the TV and the resolution is fine.
What I don't get is that my DVD plays fine through the BOSE tuner.
I'll try switching cables, but I don't know how a cable can just go bad spontaneously.
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Aspect Ratio Conversion Hardware in DVD Players

We shoot/edit/author product that goes straight to DVD or digital download. It is very unlikely that what I produce will end up broadcast. We are leaning toward shooting new features in 16:9. My question is: does anyone know approximately when DVD players started coming with Aspect Ratio Conversion Hardware as a standard feature? (I have a really old (pre-millenium) JVC at home that doesn't have that.) Our main concern is that we don't want to make the switch to 16:9 only if it is a recent occurrence because we don't want to have upset customers trying to view it 4:3. Any thoughts? Thanks!!
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Melanie Dupre wrote:
does anyone know approximately when DVD players started coming with Aspect Ratio Conversion Hardware as a standard feature? (I have a really old (pre-millenium) JVC at home that doesn't have that.)
You've either gotten bad advice or simply aren't clued into DVD technology.
DVDs, as a format, launched with anamorphic widescreen. The first discs ever sold by Warners Bros (champion of the format) in March of 1997 contained anamorphic content on one side and pan-scan transfers on another.
Finalized in 1995, the DVD spec clearly states that all players, in order to bear the DVD logo, must be able to letterbox anamorphic content for playback on a 4:3 TV. I still have a DVD player from 1999, and it is indeed able to letterbox.
I've never come across a player sold in the US that wasn't able to letterbox anamorphic material. Are you sure you're not setting the TV Shape (or maybe it's labeled Aspect Ratio) on your player incorrectly?

How to crop without changing aspect ratio/Crop mode

Is there a way to crop in Lightroom without changing the aspect ratio? That is my first question.
My second question, is it better to use APS-C crop mode on my full frame Sony A7R if I know at the focal length I'm gonna crop, or just take it full frame and crop in the software? Are there disadvantages to this when it comes to uses flash's etch?
Third, Currently I do not have a portrait lens as the Sony A7R is new and does not have many lenses out yet. Until the 90mm lens comes out I was thinking I could use the Zeiss 55mm 1.8 in Crop mode for a portrait lens. That would make it around 88mm would it compress the background nicely the way an 85mm lens normally does for portraits?

This is what I usually do, now I know for sure my aspect ratio has been locked. As far as shooting in crop mode though, what I meant about that is this; For portraits, if you take a 55mm and shoot a portrait with it, the background doesn't look that compressed, which I like. Even if it's at a good F stop. It'll be out of focus, but not "compressed" And seems to show more flaws in the person. This is why with my Canon I always used my 85mm or my 100mm. I know some who will only use a 200mm due to this type of compression that happens at longer focal lengths.
If I was to shoot in crop mode, making it 88mm, would it give me that affect? The compressed look I get from a 85mm? Or would it simply just crop it like I do in post and not really make a difference.
Sony has yet to come out with a portrait lens and I need one bad, I've been offered little jobs here and there and can't take them because I don't want to disappoint them. I'm waiting for their 90mm, because that is close the 100mm and 85mm I shot with on the 5D for portraits.
Not to same the subject here but, 'Benjamin Root Photography,' has been a great help to me on this forum. I also torn between getting the 16-35mm F/4, or the new 24mm F1.4 prime, for wide landscape shots, because landscape and hiking is where I do most of my photography.
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I've heard the A7 is better at focusing than the A7R, but since I switched to the A7R I have noticed literally no difference. But I don't shoot fast moving subjects.
With both cameras I notice the face detection and EYE AF is hard to get to work properly. If I let it auto focus fully It'll focus on the wrong thing a lot of times even though the green boxes say the right thing.
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Text and aspect ratio for creating it in Photoshop

Hi there,
I am doing something that will be displayed via a laptop. I am making titles and text blocks in photoshop, because the text feature in FCE looks quite bad with scrolling or animated texts. I am confused about the aspect ratio. For something that is going to be played on a laptop>projector, would i create the text in 720x480 OR 740x540. Thanks for your help, i really appreciate it.
Karen

Karen,
If you will be viewing on a TV or burning a DVD, you need to account for the rectangular pixels of that output. If you will be using Quicktime to view the movie to a projector, you will need use a different aspect ratio.
So: TV/DVD
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Create image at 720x480
Add to FCE - Image will look sqeezed, but will be fine in QT.
Personally I would use the text creators in FCE. Remember, text will look BAD until it is rendered and output. Preview on Canvas is not good.
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Converting DV to ???. Which format? Aspect ratio problems.

I'm trying to digitize some old VHS videos for archival and I need some guidance. My goal is to keep a digital copy on disk and toss out the tapes with the player. Most of the videos will just be for future viewing, not further editing. I tossed out the TV a few years ago and I hope to never go back, so my primary viewing will likely be on a computer screen. If I do get another TV someday I imagine that I would play these videos with some sort of media center type device rather than a DVD so I may need to keep that in mind when deciding upon the final format.
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Up to this point everything is working great.
My dilemma is how to save the video. I want a format that has good quality and will not likely need any future transcoding to stay usable. Thus far from iMovie HD I've been sharing to Quicktime, selecting Expert Settings, and then playing around with the various options within "Movie to Quicktime Movie".
On the video settings panel I'm going under the assumption that H.264 is the preferred choice. I set the compressor quality to high, the encoding to multi-pass, and the data rate to automatic.
The video filter panel has nothing selected for now.
The video size panel is where I start having questions. Obviously the original video sources have a 4:3 aspect ratio. If I leave the dimensions as "current" (720x480) I get a video that plays at 3:2 in every player I've tried. I guess that seems obvious even though I told iMovie I was working with a 4:3 project. My player of choice is VLC and I can tell it to show the video at 4:3 but it's a pain to do that every time. Quicktime can do that too, and in fact you can save the aspect ratio with the video so that it will display that way each time, but I never really use QT unless I have to.
Looking at the list of available choices in the dimension drop down box, it looks like there are a couple possible solutions...
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The next obvious choice in the list of dimensions is "640x480 VGA". When I use this option I do in fact get a video that displays correctly in every player. However, I can't help but wonder if I'm losing resolution this way. I think it's just converting the rectangular pixels to square pixels but with the drop in horizontal pixels there must be less information there? Is this a viable format for playing on various devices in the future?
Should I be experimenting with something other an "Movie to Quicktime Movie" and H.264?
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When choosing Export -> QuickTime Movie, you get a self-contained QuickTime-file of your sequence. The default video format is the same as your current sequence settings, which means you will get the exact same frame size an pixel aspect ratio in your QuickTime-file.
The best thing would be to use Compressor, but first you need to tell us what you are going to do with your QuickTime movie. Is it supposed to be a copy for the web? What video format do you need/want your movie to be exported in?
To letterbox your video in a 4:3 frame size, read about padding in the Compressor User Manual.

Does aperture have templates for non-standard aspect ratios?

i am not yet an aperture user, but i am interested in switching to it to improve on the photo book quality WRT iPhoto.
i like very much to have photos with non-standard aspect ratios, either square or wide (like 3:1). these are cropped very badly by iPhoto; is it better in Aperture?
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The templates my have a few variations that use non-standard ratios, but you can specify any photo box ratio. You have the option to either right click and choose it from a list, or choose the custom option from that pull list, or use the "Size & Position" pane of the Aperture UI to specify an exact size, angle, and border thickness and color of a photobox. This works similar to the controls in Pages, but without some of the nice effects like transparency and drop shadows.
If you want to create custom layouts, read the "Working with Custom Themes" section on page 609 of the user manual (download it with the trial). The trial is good for 30 days, so why not give it a spin, and if you don't think it's worth the $199, then you can always delete it at no cost to you other than your time.

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