After Effects Anamorphic Aspect Ratio

I'm creating graphics from scratch in After Effects (involving JPEG images and text), and I need to import it into an NTSC DV anamorphic 16:9 FCP sequence. I've set both the composition and assets to "D1/DV NTSC Widescreen" pixel aspect ratios. When I render the movie using current settings, it comes out 4:3. I'm tearing my hair out. How do I export 16:9 anamorphic material from After Effects?

What about your "footage interpretation" in AE?
If you set your composition as "anamorphic" and open the rendered movie in QT and you see it as 4:3... that's correct because QT always shows you 720x480 since you make no manual ratio adjustment in the QT video properties...
But if you also see your graphics as they should look in a 4:3 movie (so they are not squeezed as they should) the problem is 90% your footage interpretation...
"footage interpretation" must match your footage typical aspect ratio and not your composition settings...
For example... If you use a jpeg picture, "footage intepretation" must be SQUARE PIXELS because jepg is square pixels even if you use it in a NTSC ANAMORPHIC composition...
If you use an NTSC DV video file, the "footage interpretation" must be NTSC DV even if you use it in an NTSC DV ANAMORPHIC composition and so on...
Always use "make movie" or "add to render queue" when exporting from AE... The "export" command in the "file" menu is for special purposes only (i.e. exporting to flash video ro wmv, compressed quicktime for web, cd-rom etc...)and it is not recommended when you want to import your rendered movie to an editing software...

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I work 99% in DV anamorphic and all my Applications are set this way. It bothers me however that I lose my anamorphic aspect ratio when I export from FCP to Quicktime movie. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
No, you're not doing anything wrong - this is a quirk in the way that FCP writes anamorphic QT movies when using the DV codecs.
As you've discovered, the flag is not recognized by QT Player unless you export via QT Conversion and either set the display size manually or, in QT 7.1.0 or higher, select 16:9 output in your Movie Settings.
Sorry if that's no help...

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I initially complained about the same problem when exporting from Motion to QT movie, then importing in FCP. This was fixed, and I really enjoy it.
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I hope this will be fixed in the next patch as it waists a lot of time correcting it manually. I often export from FCP and into QT Pro, fix aspect ratio and then off to the web. If anyone knows of a better way, I would appreciate the help.
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As you've discovered, the flag is not recognized by QT Player unless you export via QT Conversion and either set the display size manually or, in QT 7.1.0 or higher, select 16:9 output in your Movie Settings.
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It looks like it would look if you took 16:9 and tried to squish it into 4:3, you know cone heads and stuff, making people taller and skinner. If try via dynamic link from premiere CS5 (a project composed of Cineform AVI files) to AE CS5 it still does this in AE, but the PPRO project even with the AE comp in it looks fine.
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from After Effects Help:
"To preview non-square pixels on a computer monitor, click the Toggle Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction button at the bottom of the Composition panel. The quality of the pixel aspect ratio correction for previews is affected by the Zoom Quality preference in the Previews category."

Disable Pixel Aspect Ratio in CS2

On this site and other I've found info on this but nothing that's worked. I simply want to DISABLE the automatic Pixel Aspect Ratio preview adjustment so that when a file opens it works just like it did in Photoshop 7, it just opens.
When I open the images with which I'm dealing (nearly 10,000!) Photoshop displays it's dialog "Pixel aspect ration correction is for preview only and should be turned off for maximum image quality" yet I'm unable to find a way to disable this so that my operator's don't have to turn that off with every image!
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Seems amazing that there is no way to disable this. True?
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Well, I have to admit to "devolving" back to 7 after twice looking into this so I can't speak to the file size after making the aspect ratio square. I also did just a quick look at CS3 and didn't readily see any way of disabling it.
My biggest gripe is that if it can be done manually on a menu setting I would think it wouldn't be all that difficult to make it a setting that would work something like the color profiles, where you tell it not to bother with it at all. Being somewhat of a programmer myself I can understand (a little) what Adobe must be up against managing the code it must take to produce something like Photoshop and on top of that trying to satisfy a world (literally) of users. I'm pretty sure they did this due to the growing number of people working with video, but to outright make it the default after so long not bothering with it at all seems a little off base. Then again, maybe that's just in my little world. This isn't, however, the first time across Adobe's programs that I've said "why the heck would they make that the default!" Acrobat is my favorite for that.
Best of luck.
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Hi Rick,
You're right, it's no known PAR... completely arbitrary and custom to this particular job. I'll run you through my process.
I have a projection surface (a basketball court) Which needs to have content designed onto it which is viewable from one perspective point (camera 1) in the stadium. The problem is that Camera 1's viewing angle to the court is quite shallow.
This is what Camera 1 sees:
I will be generating like this for the surface so that it looks like a deep 3d surface from "camera 1"
Now, the problem is that when I perspective correct the renders to fit what the projector will be projecting from straight down. There isn't enough pixel information for the height of the image. Meaning the pixels will smear.
This is the image that would be projected from a top mounted projector to achieve the 3d effect from the image above, you can see the loss of information in the the height pixels.
My solution for getting more information into the height is to render out of our 3d packages with a Pixel Aspect Ratio of 3.3. This was the sweet spot I found to get enough pixel information to match the pixel output of the projectors.
The resulting render looks like this (note, the angle of the camera hasn't changed)
As you can see, there is more height detail now, which will mean that that last row of pixels will be remain fairly sharp.
So, at this point, I can render from my 3d applications, and conform to the projector dimensions, with very little information loss in the height of the projected image, and without compromising my 3d persepctive.
I'm using the plugin "Camera Mapper" to project this render onto a plane which gets me the full frame of the projector at the right resolution, 4608 x 2304
The tricky part how to composite elements into the scene in an intuitive way.
If i want a horse to look like its jumping through the scene from "camera 1", like this:
Then in the that contains all the information, It will look like this:
Now that's all well and good, but it'll be harder to create realistic looking effects from this view, because they'll all need to be stretched.
I'd like to retain all the image information and just view the comp as though it's squished down.
I imagine this could be done easily by changing the comp settings to a PAR of 3.3.
That way, all the pixel information remains, but i can design in a realistically proportioned composition.
I hope that gets you up to speed on my issue, and my request for a solution.
So, in summary. I'll I'm really looking for is a way to customise the PAR options so that I have a custom available that I can apply to this, and only this scene.
Does this makes sense?
Cheers,
Evan

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When I replace a clip in Premiere with an AE comp, AE opens in 4:3.
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What does it say?
If it says 0.9091 then change it to 1.2121
If it says something else, come back and let me know. I will then have a different answer for you.
Also, what is the frame size of the video.

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Hi there,
I'm new to adobe programs...
I'm having a problem when i try to import a 720 x 540 photoshop image into After Effect at the same ratio. After establishing the same settings, my image in AE is slightly cut off at the sides (along the width), as if pillarboxed just barely. There's an outline around the image that seems like it maybe be closer to the 720 X 540 aspect ration, but i don't know how to make the image fill it up.
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I your AE comp is 720 X 540 square pixels and your Photoshop file is 720 X 540 square pixels then the frame sizes match. If your AE comp is NOT square pixels or your Photoshop file was set to a non square pixel aspect ratio then AE will make the adjustments and you will see some distortion.
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I hope this clears things up a bit. Pixel aspect ratios confuse everyone at first.

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First consideration - How are you going to playback the content?
If from some type of HD playback device (tape or disk) then you setup each of your render comps using standard HD presets and you figure out how you're going to sync the playback devices.
If you're playing back from a computer, then you have to determine how you're going to send the signal to the monitors. It's a mistake to even consider the pixel dimensions of the playback device, but it's critical that you know how you're going to feed the displays. Do you want to send the entire image as a single file to a dual display graphics adaptor? If so, your primary consideration is data rate. Trying to fill both screens with a full screen image is going to take a very serious disk array to keep up with the data rate.
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When I export my FULLHD spot to these setting, the aspect ratio/the spot size turns out wrong. When opened in QT Pro the size is 720x576, what is correct, but the anamorph size quotet in brackets reads different values, for example 1020x576 but never 1024x576, what would be correct.
The service providers online software refuses to work with these wrong nunmbers...!?
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Aspect ratio after commited

Ok so I choose sd 720 x 576 anamorphic and and all ok, i then put a anamorphic clip that fcp
7 has no worries with and it goes in 4.3 and looks wrong
I see no where to change it apart from doing it myself with the transform effect tool
This cant be right?
Also once a project is made at a certain property can I ammend after or do I have to mae a new project?
Daz

Oh yes...
How did I miss the wrench lol
You might be able to answer the aspect ratio situation I had on a thread...
I have a sd anamorphic video clip which in fcp I would properties the clip format and click anamorphic
and it would fit the sequence.
I Manuallt set the time line to sd anamorph then put the clip in and its still 4.3
If I do automatic setting its still 4.3
I can make it ana by clicking on the clips and puliing it out etc but this is wrong.. any ideas?
daz

Problems with anamorphic in after effects...HELP!

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There MUST be a simple answer to this problem....
There is a simple answer indeed.
Here it is:
The highlighted button in the Comp panel enables Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) Correction.
So, instead of stretching the footage horizontally, you create a Composition with the same frame aspect and Pixel Aspect Ratio as your source footage (just drag the clip to the New Comp button in the project panel and AE will automate this) and then enable PAR correction and After Effects will give you a corrected (deanamorphized) preview so you won't see it squeezed at all on a computer monitor. When you export it, it will look squeezed until you take it to the target video application. Any professional video application will handle this correctly.Millions of people do this every day, since non-square pixels are still dominant among the most popular video formats.
Even Photoshop has had support for non-square pixels (and PAR correction in the document panel) since CS (ie. Photoshop 8.0).
Note that when you turn on PAR correction (just like when you use odd magnification levels) AE switches to a draft filtering mode, which makes type and other elements look a bit jagged. Don't worry, it's just a preview.
The ideal solution, and the one video professionals rely on, is adding video output hardware to your computer, so you can connect a professional video monitor. After Effects can provide a live preview using such a set-up.
For more information on PAR, see Pixel aspect ratio and frame aspect ratio in After Effects Help.

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