Actions for converting aspect ratios

Here is a little tip if you want to resize your camera images for a slide show.
I needed to convert and resize my 3008 x 2000 RAW images to PAL Standard for a slide show. I use PS CS3 and I was using IMAGE>Pixel Aspect Ratio to convert the file then IMAGE>Size to resize to 720 x 576. I decided to create an Action to autoamte the process and when I opened up ACTIONS lo & behold Adobe have already created an Action for all the NTSC and PAL formats.
All it takes is to open your image, select Actions and select the format you want, that is it. All I need to do now is create a Batch File to automate a over 200 image files.
If like me you use PSD files then they must be flattened first and the Action is not written for images in portrait mode, these have to be done through IMAGE>Pixel Aspect Ration and then IMAGE>Size with the width and height transposed and Constrain Proportions unticked.
Doug.

Doug,
I agree that Actions are the way to go in PS. Mine also change the Color Bit Depth Mode to 8-bit, as I am almost always working in 16-bit, when I process my Camera RAW files. Not sure about the included PS Actions, but in PS CS2, I have just written several that do all the pre-processing, and then do a Automate>Batch for entire folders of these images. I also will keep the files in PSD format, when I do the final Save_As.
This ARTICLE covers most of my operations, using your workflow.
Nice to know that PS installs with Actions that can do most of this. I never saw them in CS/CS2, but maybe just did not look, or perhaps Adobe has added them in CS3/CS4. Nice to know.
Thank you,
Hunt

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Tips for import aspect ratio (4:3 & 16:9 widescreen)

I have spent several weeks importing video footage from various types of DVDs (old, new, PAL, NTSC, 4:3 and 16:9), and have encountered just about every aspect ratio problem known to Mac. Along the way, I have discovered a few things by trial and error, and wanted to share them with any other poor souls out there who are dealing with similar issues.
Note that this does not, as far as I know, apply to camcorder footage.
Please respect all local laws regarding copying of DVDs!
Useful programs:
MacTheRipper (freeware)
Cinematize (you have to pay, but it's downloadable and not expensive) for processing and converting video footage into a format iMovie can understand (.mov files for video and .aiff files for sound)
Amadeus II (freeware) for processing and converting sound files
iMovie HD
iDVD
If your aspect ratio is coming out wrong (stretched or squashed), try the following:
If you want to import just an excerpt, rip the entire DVD with MacTheRipper, then isolate the required excerpt with Cinematize & import into iMovie. This tends to work better than ripping only excerpts with MacTheRipper.
Import into iMovie all elements together (i.e. the sound .aiff, the video video.mov, and the combined file .mov). One or the other will probably be in the correct aspect ratio. This works better than importing just the .mov file by itself. Whatever you dont need can be deleted later.
If you want to make a Widescreen project, do this first (choose DV Widescreen when creating the project). Then create a separate project in DV (not DV Widescreen) format. This option is available only when creating a new project in iMovie. Then import the 4:3 video (all elements together, as above) into the DV project. Lastly, copy the 4:3 video clip ('copy' in th Edit menu), close the new project, open your Widescreen project and paste the clip (see iMovie The Missing Manual (Pogue) page 261 Grabbing Clips From Other Projects). It should appear properly pillarboxed and looking like 4:3!
In iMovie/Preferences/Import, there's an option 'Automatic DV Pillarboxing and Letterboxing' which you might need to fool around with. It may solve some, but not all of your problems!
A tip about Themes in iDVD: They may appear in 4:3 even if your project is 16:9 widescreen. I have an old DVD player which played the DVD I burned with the theme stretched. When I played the DVD on my computer, however, it recognized the different aspect ratios (4:3 for the theme, 16:9 for the video) and played them correctly. I suspect that a modern DVD player would do the same.
Good luck, and happy movie-making!

Connect two camcorders using a 4-pin-to-4-pin FireWire cable. Press Play on one and Record (..in VCR mode..) on the other.
However (..but I haven't tried it, and it's a bit too late tonight to plug two camcorders together; maybe tomorrow..) I'd guess that the 16:9 will be transferred as 16:9 ..I don't know if it'd be possible to force the 2nd camcorder to crop it as 4:3.
However, two other points: Dan reminds us that you can always crop 16:9 to 4:3 just by creating a mask, and Bob Whatsisname? ..Hudson, of course!.. shows how you can unsqueeze squashed 16:9 using QuickTime Pro.

Converting Aspect Ratio Issues

I have a bunch of movies that I have edited from mini dv tapes and I am trying to export them to put them on a DVD w/ iDVD and I am also trying to put them on my ipod. In Final Cut it says the files are 720 by 480 even though they play at the proper 4:3 aspect ratio in Final Cut. After I export them w/quicktime movie (the first option) they play stretched when opened with quicktime but play normal when I open the file w/ Final Cut. When I put the same files in an iDVD project and watch they are not stretched. If I convert the files to ipod video w/ quicktime they are stetched out also but if I use isquint to convert them they are the proper aspect but annoyingly out of sync. (if any1 knows why that is it would be greatly appreciated) Ultimately I would like to be able to watch my films in the proper aspect ratio, but more importantly i want to make sure i don't burn a dual layer dvd to find out all my films are stretched. I would also like them not to be stretched on my ipod.
srry for the long post
thx

Peter,
If you have Quicktime Pro, look for the Export>Movie to iPod option.
Besides that, I think a little of searching was enough to find some information about iPod encoding, as follows.
Video specification of iPod are:
H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video: up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats
You can find it here:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
I have NOT iPod video then, I never tried this, but my best guess is try creating a custom preset with compressor to match the mentioned video specifications and test it.
Did you search about this in iPod discussions? Probably would find some information there that help you.
Good luck !

Editing two files together for proper aspect ratio output

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this will then show on a projector with a native resolution of 1280x800.
i do not want to crop the sides of two source files by half, but to crop them by a lesser amount to make a wider pairing that will play well with the projector's 16:10 aspect ratio, with no black banding.
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I shot some footage in 1440p (by mistake), i've edited it into a sequence that I want, colour graded it and put music to it. How do I crop it so that it becomes 1080p. I've used the crop effect but when I go to export it to h.264 it still exports it as 1440p but with black bars.
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hth
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as I can scale and position the sprites of a stage and that they are in an area defined by the screen size (the image of serious background constant) but to adapt the sprites within a frame or area that would be the screen size.
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- Detect screen size
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They can help me with this I'm trying to adapt a workable app to suit 1920x1080 (1.7) 960x640 (1.5) without the sprites are stretched.

They can give me a hint of this.
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I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused.
this time I set up my session/sequence to be for 1440x1080, transferred the media into the session. When I drag my first clip into the Canvas - the FCP pops up a window saying that the clip and the sequence don't match. I tell it to correct it - and it puts it back to the 1920x1080 - HDTV 1080i setting.
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The (new) Premiere pixel aspect ratio is wrong for my PAL DV cam footage

I've had a Sony TRV-950E DV-cam since 2003. I've been shooting DV PAL in widescreen.
I just bought Elements 12 to edit my footage, and discovered that the pixel aspect ratio for D1/DV PAL Widescreen has been updated to 1.46 (old value 1.42).
The theory behind this change is that video recorded on 720x576 is slightly wider than 16:9 and that the 16:9 portion is 704x576.
Unfortunately this is not correct for my footage! I've captured the video from my DV-cam (by firewire) and opened it in Premere and it is streched to be shown as 1050x576.
So I did a test:
I filmed a steady shot of a perfect circle and captured the video from the camera and opened it in Premiere. The pixel ascpect ratio 1.46 makes the display 1050x576.
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I make a picture of a perfect circle in Photoshop (square pixels) with size 1024x576. I imported this picture into the Premiere project, and match the two circles: The filmed one, and the Photoshop one.
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This means that my DV camera actually records a 100% 16:9 picture on all the pixels 720x576 - and not a slightly wider picture with the 16:9 part being in 704x576 (which is the reason for the change in pixel aspect ratio from 1.42 to 1.46).
I have some HD scenes that I want to import (and downscale) into my SD project also, and I also have a lot of still pictures.
Unless I can change the setup i Elements to the correct ratio 1.42, these stills and sqare-pixel-video (HD) should ideally be streched from 1024x576 to 1050x576 to match (become equally stretched as) all the SD footage.
How do I solve this?
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Tom
After much thought and exploration and experimentation, I have come to the conclusion that there is no practical purpose for doing anything other than importing your media into the project and editing/exporting. I find no distortion in doing so, be it in the video samples that you posted or in still models that I created for the pixel aspect ratio 1.422 vs 1.4587 for D1/DV PAL Widescreen.
If you have not already, please read the following about the Adobe DV Widescreen Pixel Aspect Ratio change from 1.422 to 1.456.
Please start in the first link which gives some get subsequent links in it
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/673877
http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/2009/03/pal-d1-dv-widescreen-square-pixel-settings-in-after -effects-cs4-vs-cs3/
Also, you may find the following article on square and non square pixels of interest. It uses the PAL DV Widescreen 1.422 pixel aspect ratio in its discussion.
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/pixel_madness.php
Aside from the explanation for the rights and wrongs of the matter, this is what I actually observed taking your PAL DV AVI Widescreen and PAL MPEG2.mpg Widescreen into the same Premiere Elements 12 Windows PAL DV Widescreen project. Along with your video files were still images that I created in Photoshop Elements 11 Full Editor:
1024 x 576 document with a red circle on Layer 2 of the Layers Palette
1050 x 576 document with a red circle on Layer 1 of the Layers Palette.
The red circles were superimposed in creation. The difference in the pixel dimensions between the two are evidenced by Layer 1 content peaking through on the left and right.
The gpsot readout for pixel aspect ratio for each of the videos was
a. Your PAL DV AVI 720 x 576 Widescreen = 1.422
b. Your PAL MPEG2.mpg 720 x 576 Widescreen = 1.422
Each of the Photoshop Elements documents (circles) saved as .psd files 1050 x 576 pixels.
When all were taken into Premiere Elements 12 project manually set for PAL DV Widescreen, they looked like the following, no display of distortion.......
PAL DV AVI Widescreen 720 x 576 (now the pixel aspect ratio in Premiere Elements Properties was shown as 1.4587, not the 1.422 seen in gspot before import)
PAL MPEG2.mpg Widescreen 720 x 576 (now the pixel aspect ratio in Premiere Elements 12 Properties was shown as 1.4587, not the 1.422 seen in gspot before import)
Edit Menu/Preferences/General with check mark next to "Default Scale to Frame Size" was in effect.
As for the red circles stills (1050 x 576 to equate to the square pixel version of 720 x 576 widescreen) did not distort when brought into the Premiere Elements 12 Edit area monitor which is established by the PAL DV Widescreen project preset with the pixel aspect ratio = 1.4587.
The jpg version of the Photoshop Elements document (.psd) 1050 x 576 pixels (square pixels) looked like:
And, when this Timeline was exported Publish+Share/Computer/AVI with the DV PAL Widescreen preset, there was no distortion in the export. It looked undistorted as it did before export.
So, unless I am overlooking a key point here, I cannot see a reason why you cannot use the video sources that you presented for sampling as weil as stills with the 1050 x 576 pixel dimensions.
The only time I see any distortion possibilities is if you use a player that does not recognize the 16:9 flag that stretches the 720 x 576 to 1050 x 576 for display after encoding.
Trying to convert Premiere Elements 12 which uses the 1.4587 pixel aspect ratio for PAL DV Widescreen into a Premiere Elements 7 which uses the 1.422 pixel aspect ratio for PAL DV Widescreen is up hill in spite of creative thinking on your side.
Please review and let me know if you are seeing another different from what I am reporting with the samples that you posted.
Thank you.
ATR

Aspect Ratio issues getting 16:9 to look right, what is the best workflow?

Hi all,
I am having trouble getting my 16:9 footage to look right when I export, especially when playing on DVD. I shot the footage with a Sony HDR-HC1 which apparently shoots in 16:9 anamorphic. Originally when I imported the footage it appeared it the FCP viewer and canvas in 4:3 letterboxed form, the image did not look squeezed or stretched but appeared with black stripes on top and bottom.
I have tried several experiments with exporting this footage to dvd with the following results:
Using Compressor with 4:3 setting in export:
DVD Studio Pro track settings to 16:9 looks extra squashed vertically
DVDSP track settings to 4:3 image looks in proper aspect ratio but displays with black stripes on all 4 sides.
Using Compressor with 16:9 settings in export gives the same results.
In conclusion, if it appears in 4:3 letterbox in FCP viewer and canvas there is no way to get it to export and display in DVD with proper 16:9 aspect ratio.
I have also done some experimenting with re-capturing some of the footage from the tape.
For one sequence I recaptured the footage and it displayed in 4:3 without the letterboxed effect (filling the whole screen) but appeared squeezed, I am guessing that this is because of the anamorphic nature in which my camera captures the footage. No pixels were missing. In the FCP viewer and canvas it looked squeezed and did not display in the correct aspect ratio, however when it was exported via Compressor in 4:3 and then in DVDSP Track Settings put to 16:9 Letterboxed, it is displayed perfectly (letterboxed vertically, the image filling the width of the screen without the extra stripes on the sides).
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So now even though I have switched the camera back to its original settings it will not display in that 4:3 squeezed look in FCP viewer and canvas.
So after all that my main questions are, in 16:9 can I view it in the FCP viewer and canvas in its correct (anamorphically converted) aspect ratio and still export it without the black bars on all sides?
(The FCP canvas seems to only display in 4:3)
If not, what setting do I need to capture in FCP in the 4:3 squeezed look I have described earlier?
(This is the only setting that I have found that displays properly when anamorphically stretched via DVDSP)
I know that this is a long essay so thanks for making it this far. I have spent weeks experimenting trying to find the best solution so please help me if you know how! I will be very appreciative.
Thanks
Liam

Hi there,
I am not sure if it is necessarily a bug, but its a matter of understanding all of the settings needed. I had the same problems for a while but after a fair bit of trial and error have found some workable settings.
It probably has more to do with the export settings rather than what viewer options have selected (I don't think that viewer settings affect your export).
What program are you using to export?
I am using compressor to export with aspect ration set to automatic 16:9. Then use DVDSP with the track set to 16:9 letterbox, it seems to export to DVD with the correct aspect ratio that way.
I am having trouble with the image strobing, looks like some kind of interlacing problem, but at least I have got it in the right aspect ratio.
Its typical video, solve one problem and it just creates another.
I am yet to find the absolute best workflow.
In response to Andy above, the original letterboxed footage probably did have something to do with the downconverting settings on the camera, as when I import without downconverting it does not letterbox. In the HDR-HC1 there is an option in the menu called "TV Type" with options of 4:3 or 16:9. I was reviewing my footage on a 4:3 television so I most likely had it set to 4:3 which created the letterboxing in the viewer when I then imported the footage.
Importing the footage in HDV solves the issue of aspect ratio, but creates a new problem with the image strobing.
I hope this was some kind of help to you.
Liam

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Please help. I believe this is an iDVD bug. I have found some relevant discussion of it on online forums - but have not found a solution that works for me. I am looking for a workaround.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1356500&tstart=31
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
My 4:3 movies, exported from FCE in QT-with-conversion formats (any 4:3 format) - appear in iDVD with gray side-pillars (as expected for 4:3) AND with a black line (letter-boxing) at top and bottom - as would be for 16:9. It appears the aspect ratio is also distorted i.e. 16:9. (The iDVD project is set to 4:3.)
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I am, so far, left with this trade-off: Give up the de-interlacing, or live with the letter-boxing/ distortion. Neither is acceptable.
I am looking for a workaround:
1) A way to export de-interlaced 4:3 mov from FCE that shows in correct ratio in iDVD
2) A way to "convert" / re-head mov file after exported so that it displays corrrectly (inverse-anamorphicize) so that iDVD reads it correctly
3) Can the mov be de-interlaced after the fact (so I could use QT export without conversion)?
4) Something besides iDVD to put this together - that doesn't have this problem? (I like and want to use the iDVD menu/theme.)
5) Other?????
I also notice that all the QT-with-conversion mov files are 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the QT-only mov file, which is valuable and preferable to me. (I don't see any quality difference in the display...)

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