Aspect Ratio UNlock?

I'm using Keynote '09 and I can't figure out how to unlock the aspect ratio on images I paste onto a slide. I know that pressing "shift" locks the aspect ratio but how do I unlock it? I have a presentation due next week and being able to figure this out will really enhance my slides. Thank you for your help, it's much appreciated.

There are two approaches available:
resize: click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Metrics inspector button, deselect “Constrain proportions” then drag the corner handles to resize
mask: select the image and then click the Mask button in the toolbar (Format > Mask) then reposition and resize the mask and image

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Locking / unlocking crop aspect ratio lock

I somehow am missing the magic; I know that one can click on the Develop module's lock to constrain an aspect ratio or to allow free cropping. But how can I set it by default not to be locked? In version 2, I seem to recall that it would end up with a different default for a while till I did something unknown to switch the default. So far in LR 3 beta and LR 3 itself, it always seems to be in locked mode. Thanks for any insight I am missing!
Dilip

Thanks, Hamish, for your kind posting. I am indeed aware that the padlock visually informs about the locking status. I would just like to be able to set a preference to always leave that padlock open, or perhaps leave it as I last set it. Thanks!

How do I restore all images in a collection to original imported aspect ratio?

Typically I select all images in a catalog, resize the first image to 640x480. I then right click on the first image (all images are still selected) click on Develop Settings, Sync and choose to sync only the aspect ratio. All images are then cropped to 640x480 like the first image, which I then export to a folder.
I then need to restore all images to the original aspect ratio for building a slideshow to export to my website. I've followed the same procedure i.e. selected all images, click on the first image, change aspect to original, right click on first image and sync aspect ratio for all images.
The problem is that the rest of the images do not return to their original aspect ratio but revert to 4x6 aspect ratio instead of the original size when imported. I've changed the lock to unlocked and tried both but still no result. Now I have to select each image individually, open the crop dialog and choose custom to get it back to the imported aspect ratio.
How do I batch restore all images in a collection to the aspect ratio when imported?

Rotating an image is adjusting its crop rotation and crop size. You originally said you wanted things back to import state which presumably was full resolution w/o any adjustments to ratio, size, or rotation. If you are wanting to do things in the middle of your other processing I'm less sure what to tell you.
Taking a crop that you have at 3:2 and setting it to 4:3 shrinks in the longer sides, and resetting the ratio to 3:2 shrinks down the shorter top and bottom--this is how it always works, because a crop box is not ever expanded by setting the ratio to something different, and changing the ratio back and forth like that makes the crop-box smaller and smaller.
Are you having an issue because you want to fiddle with the crop in the middle of other processing every time, or is this a special case because you've moved on in your processing after asking your question some time ago?
If you routinely need to do this, an easier way might be to export the images at the 3:2 crop, then reimport those JPGs, change the crop on those JPGs, only, then re-export them a second time, and be done with them. This sounds like you're making proofs?
If you are making proof-sized images at a different ratio? Why not just export the 3:2 images at a smallish size, perhaps with a watermark and not have to worry about making them 4:3 ratio?
Another alternative would be to print the images to JPGs instead of a printer, and set the paper size to a 4:3 ratio and turn on the Fill option--which will chop of the long sides automatically as it prints them.

Unwanted default to 'constrain aspect ratio' of crops

Lightroom 2.6 Mac.
Recently I've been annoyed that when I come to crop images the program defaults to 'constrain aspect ratio' which I don't usually want. It's easy enough to press the 'a' key toggle to unset this but when I come to crop the next image it usually (but not always) resets to constrain again.
This is a new problem and I can't think of any obvious reason or way to fix it. Any ideas?

In the develop module, I made sure the constrain aspect ratio was unlocked and then double-clicked on the words next to the lock to get the menu of choices, I chose "original" which has kept the crop free to choose crops with no constraint.

Issues with Aspect Ratio

Two questions:
(a) When is aspect ratio "locked" and when is it not? Even when I "lock" the aspect ratio in one of the galleries, or folders rather, the next image it is unlocked again. Or vice versa. How can I lock or unlock the entire folder? Since the V1.0, I failed to make sense of it, when and why it is "locked" by default, or "unlocked" by default.
(b) Lightroom applies seemingly some "intelligent" aspect ratio adjustment and overwrites users choice when the first value is larger than the second. For example, when I attempt to have 2/3 aspect ratio, but I would like to make a vertical (portrait) selection 3/2 of a horizontal image, lightroom cheerfully replaces the values and makes 2/3 aspect ratio from my 3/2 setting. Highly annoying. Is there any way to avoid this?

> ... Lightroom applies seemingly some "intelligent" aspect ratio adjustment and overwrites users choice when the first value is larger than the second. For example, when I attempt to have 2/3 aspect ratio, but I would like to make a vertical (portrait) selection 3/2 of a horizontal image, lightroom cheerfully replaces the values and makes 2/3 aspect ratio from my 3/2 setting. Highly annoying. Is there any way to avoid this? <br /><br />I noticed Lr (v1.4) doing this on my XP workstation, which I found aggravating. However, the next time I used Lr for the same cropping method the "problem" had fixed itself, and would allow for the fixed aspect ratio to be portrait or landscape ... go figure ...<g>...

New aspect ratio crop.

I have a PC using Windows 7. Today I have upgraded Lightroom 5 from Lightroom 4. When using the new Aspect Ratio crop the guides appear as expected. When I go to the top centre area of the crop, instead of getting the black lines with the arrows (as you do with the corners) all I get are two white arrows. This means I can only drag the entire crop box to a smaller size. The line will not move down to the aspect guide as you expect. Can someone inform me as to what the issue is?

If i understand your problem correctly, you have to unlock the padlock in the crop tool to get this behavior.

Crop Aspect Ratio Lock fails

Lightroom Crop aspect ratio lock no longer remembers the last setting. Everytime it is unlocked. Annoying. Is this a bug in the new version? or is there some new way to define the default state?

an interesting, I think I found the answer on my own
if you hit 'r' for crop, 'a' to toggle aspect ratio lock, then ENTER to apply the crop LR will not remember the apect-ratio lock setting.
You can force it to remember by hitting 'r', toggling the state with 'a', then hitting 'r' again to close the crop tool.
apparently ENTER fails to apply the crop and SAVE the new default state (lock/unlocked)

Quicktime aspect ratio

Quicktime X - I can't BELIEVE I can no longer change the aspect ratio like I could in 6 and 7. What were Apple thinking??? It's already bad enough what they did to Final Cut. Why on earth do they think DUMBING DOWN is a good idea??

I don’t know whether a discovery I’ve made has been made by somebody who’s already reported it in a likely forum such as Apple Support Communities, but in what I trust is plain English here it is from my experience:
For a few years in my PowerPC Macintosh G4 with OS 10.5.8 I’ve been using the nifty pre-Intel (and therefore pre-Snow-Leopard) paid version of QuickTime 7 called QuickTime 7 Pro, version 7.7. As well as allowing me to perform several kinds of editing trick and to add many kinds of metadata it has allowed me to correct a video’s aspect ratio by keeping the Shift key pressed while I use the mouse’s left button and the mouse’s single-headed pointer to drag the video’s bottom right-hand corner to the place that seems to my eyes to create the correct aspect ratio.
The other day when I acquired an Intel Mac running OS 10.8.3 and invoked my old QT Pro registration key to unlock QT Pro 7’s Snow Leopard version (ie version 7.7.1, still apparently unchanged since Snow Leopard) I was annoyed to find that I could no longer use precisely my old Shift + drag-corner trick to adjust a video’s aspect ratio, and even those videos whose aspect ratios I adjusted and saved in my PowerPC would open with the old incorrect aspect ratio in my Intel Mac.
I’m now pleased to report that I’ve discovered how to do it on my Intel Mac, and compared with my PowerPC’s way it’s only a tiny bit trickier:
Without yet pressing Shift, I put the mouse-pointer on the video’s bottom right-hand corner and drag what has now become a diagonally oriented double-headed sizing-arrow to a place that my eyes judge will create the correct aspect ratio. Then, while keeping my finger on the mouse’s left button, I press the Shift key. The video’s bottom right-hand corner will magically jump to the place where the sizing-arrow is. Then I release the mouse’s left button, and after that I release the Shift key. Then I press Command-S to save my precious aspect-ratio adjustment.
Beware: As with QT Pro 7.7’s method, QT Pro 7.7.1’s method is not at the most fundamental level. For instance if I press Command-3 (or go to QT’s “View” menu and choose “Fit to Screen”) my adjusted video will dart back to its original incorrect aspect ratio instead of remembering and honoring the aspect ratio that I chose. But I’m thankful that if I close the adjusted and saved video and then reopen it it’ll still show my chosen aspect ratio.
The main thing that beats me in this saga is why the elves in Cupertino bothered to meddle with QT 7.7 Pro’s slightly easier aspect-ratio trick and then apparently (?) to keep quiet about their meddling while expecting the customers to rely on trial and error to discover the new and unimproved trick.
Another thing that beats me is the justification the said elves had for creating the Mickey Mouse thing called QuickTime X instead of simply improving QuickTime 7 and its paid Pro version.

Changed H264 for Bly Ray settings to PAL, but "pixel aspect ratio" remains NTSC

I changed H264 for Bly Ray settings to PAL, but I can't change the "pixel aspect ratio" which remains NTSC. It remains grey and I can't find the way to unlock this.
What I miss?

It's a very strange behaviour. When I saw the template it was this way
Whereas, the preset put on the movie (in the batch window) became this way
Same of yours. I don't know why this happened... but I'm happy is the right way...

Synchronizing crop aspect ratio

Using Windows and Lightroom 5.5, I'm no longer able to synchronize a crop aspect
ratio of 2:3 across a series of images. All the other settings I use are synchronized,
but crop aspect keeps reverting to "Original".
I've tried setting it Quick Develop and in Develop. It's worked before, but not now.

an interesting, I think I found the answer on my own
if you hit 'r' for crop, 'a' to toggle aspect ratio lock, then ENTER to apply the crop LR will not remember the apect-ratio lock setting.
You can force it to remember by hitting 'r', toggling the state with 'a', then hitting 'r' again to close the crop tool.
apparently ENTER fails to apply the crop and SAVE the new default state (lock/unlocked)

What are the ideal specs for a DigiBeta master tape when authoring a "widescreen anamorphic" 16:9 SD DVD (original aspect ratio is 14:9)?

I just received the masters for a new SD DVD. I would like to author a "widescreen anamorphic" SD DVD horizontally squeezed widescreen image stored in a standard 4:3 aspect ratio DVD image frame. (On 4:3 displays, mattes should preserve the original aspect ratio. On 16:9 displays the image will fill the screen at the highest possible resolution.)
Below I've listed the specs of the Digi Beta master tapes the producers have sent to me for digitizing. I'd like to know this: What are the ideal specs for a DigiBeta master tape when authoring a widescreen anamorphic SD DVD, using material with an original aspect ratio of 14:9?
I've also listed my guesses below. Please let me know if my guesses are right. If not, please suggest alternatives (and if possible explain why.)
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF EXISTING MASTER:
Tape: DigiBeta
Original Aspect Ratio: 1.55 (14:9)
Vid Rate: 29.97 fps
Pixel Aspect: NTSC - CCIR 601
Frame Size: 720 x 480
Anamorphic: Full-Height Anamorphic (16:9 image displayed in letterboxed, non-distored 4:3)
Display Format: 4:3 Letterbox
MY GUESS AT IDEAL TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS (for a DigiBeta, that is):
Tape: DigiBeta
Original Aspect Ratio: 1.55 (14:9)
Vid Rate: 29.97 fps
Pixel Aspect: Square
Frame Size: 720 x 540
Anamorphic: YES
Display Format: 16:9 Anamorphic (horizontally squeezed widescreen image)
Please feel free to ask for clarification or further information you need to answer my question.
Thank you so much in advance for your help!
Best, Noetical.
BTW, I can't wait for the day when everything has gone digital and we get digital intermediates instead of tapes to digitize!

Hi Nick...thanks for taking the time to reply to my question.
Nick Holmes wrote:
What you have there is a mess.
NTSC pixels are never square.
NTSC is 720x486, even when it is Anamorphic.
You shouldn't be using an already letterboxed master to make an Anamorphic version. Get the master that was made before the letterboxing stage.
When you make an Anamorphic DVD it should display as 16:9 full screen automatically on widescreen TVs.
The same DVD will automatically letterbox on 4:3 TVs.
Um yeah...duh. That's exactly what I was trying to explain in the preface of my question. I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear...all these things you mention are the reasons I'm putting together a list of the technical specs of the DigiBeta I need so I can have them send that instead of the stupid letterboxed version.
Look, I'm sending this request to some intern at their offices in England, asking for a master with which I can make an Anamorphic DVD. They already sent me this master, which as you and I both agree is an idiotic asset to use for these purposes. As such, I was hoping for advice on a more precise way of requesting the master that I need than asking for "the master that was made before the letterboxing stage." Upon reflection, perhaps I'll just do that. If you or anyone else has a suggestion about something I should add to my request that would improve the odds of them sending the tape I need, please repond. Thank you!
BTW, It's been a long time since anyone has responded to something I've written or said as though I'm an idiot. I remember now that I don't really like it. (Moving along...)

XML file from '08 has a different aspect ratio in FCP 6?

I have the new canon vixia hg 21 which is avchd and FCP 6 isn't recognizing it. Using Imovie to recognize the files works fine, the problem is that when you export from imovie '08 into FCP via xml, it imports fine, but I get a display issue with black bars surrounding the footage, only in the canvas. It appears fine in the viewer and in it's own sequence in the timeline. But when you mix the different camera footage together, the other being the Canon XH A1, it appears as a different aspect ratio??? What the? and for the life of me, I've re imported using 16:9, no difference...I have no idea what's going on.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You should really take this to the Final Cut Pro forum as the codecs and the interface is different for Final Cut Express.

How to fix an error in sequnece setting (aspect ratio)?

Hi,
I have been working for a while on a project in CS4. I have created a sequence in it with an aspect ratio (AR) of 4:3 - worked for hours on it - but I should had the sequence created instead in 16:9. I realised it a bit too late...
So how do I fix it?
Apparently amending the sequence setting for AR cannot be done - please let me know if there is any way of doing this.
Someone suggested editing the PRPROJ file of the project - but when I opened it I was unable to detect under the sequence name (I found a few entries with it) where I can easily change the sequence to 16:9.
So then I found people suggesting I copy/paste all the assets from the sequence into a new one that is correctly configured with 16:9. When I did this - CTRL+A and Copy, then paste into a new sequence in the same project - it copied all the clips and I think also all the transitions. But the key element that it did not copy over were all the changes I have done to the sound - I have been editing via the sound mixer (in Write mode) the sound, and then also made changes to the master track volume levels. These were not copied over.
I really don't want to have to do the mixing all over again. If someone can explain how I can fix the problem in any way I would be most thankful.
While I am here asking - another 2 small questions that have been bugging me:
How I can copy and paste volume keyframes from either the master track or a clip and apply it on another clip/section of the clip that would be very helpful. This would for example be useful if I am able to find a certain volume level that I would like to apply to the desired section without the need to sit and "record" (using the Write function) those settings on the desired area. If there is any means to apply the properties on audio track this way - that would be really useful and time saving.
A best practice hint: when you try and create a sound level for a project - what PC volume level setting do you set in your PC that you use as a benchmark by which we then work out the sound level that would be created in the project? Obviously if I push my PC volume al the way up I would probably mix my sound in the project too low. And if I set the PC volume too low - than I would probably be setting the overall sound level too high and get distortion. As the movies I created would be burnt onto a DVD - what is the volume level on the PC (if there is any means of establishing a standard volume) that I need to match first before I go and figure out what level of sound the finished DVD would have? Of course I can work on say a 50% and then apply gains and volume increases based on that 50% of the max sound my PC plays out. But that sounds pretty much like a random setting and not optimised for other devices.
My system:
Windows 7, 32-bit
CS4, v. 4.2.1
This looks like a fairly basic question but I am unable to find a good answer to it...
Many thanks to the person who shows me how this can be done without me going crazy over the need to start all over again...
Eroka00

Hi Ann,
Your tip saved me a lot of time indeed....!
So I created a new sequence, made sure it was 16:9, copy pasted all of the assets, but then had to do the following:
1. Copy/Paste Attributes for all the video clips (these do not transfer);
2. As you suggested used the whole of the old sequence as a nested sequence in the new one, eliminating the video altogether.
I still had a nagging issue that the project would not render or export well - but that turned out to be an issue with rendeiring large files (the video was an uncut clip of almost 10GB, andother of 6GB). Splicing these into 10 minute segments and rendering them separately did the trick.
It's ben amlong Xmas weekend and endless hours spendt on this project. Yaikes!
Thanks for the workaround idea!

Can you help me solve my aspect ratio issue?

Hey guys,
I'm posting this in hopes that someone can help me solve an aspect ratio issue with a project that I have to finish by tomorrow.
I'm trying to avoid having to re-edit the entire thing.
I shot the project with my Nikon D7000 DSLR. in 720p 30p (29.97)
I am running Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 (the trial version). I have the full version of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.
The reason I was working with the trial is that CS3 can't handle the H.264 MOVs that the D7000 records.
You can work with a timeline, but if you try to export anything, it never works. I always have to convert my footage to ProRes MOVs with MPEG Streamclip before I can work with them is CS3. That takes a lot of time and a lot of hard drive space. After much research, I found out that CS5 is the way to go for DSLR footage. I just need to save up my pennies for the upgrade.
So I thought I'd edit this short (1 minute) project with the trial to see how CS5 works with the D7000 footage.
Upon installing the trial program, I found that the project presets were limited. I knew this ahead of time because it's clearly stated on the Adobe's website.
But I wasn't aware how limited they are.
Since "DSLR 1280x720p 30p" is not an option with the trial, I was going to use HDV 720p 30p. But that was not an option either!
So basically, my only option for 16x9 30p was "DV NTSC Widescreen". It's my understanding that this is 864x480 (in square pixel aspect ratio) or 720x480 (in widescreen pixel aspect ratio) I needed the output file to be 864x486. I downsized the footage to 69% in the "Video Effects: Motion" setting so it looked correct in the project. I didn't think about those extra 6 pixels until I outputed the file and saw thin black lines on the top and bottom. My guess is that Premiere is adding black pixels because my project is technically 720x480 (1.2121)
Any thoughts on how I can get a clean 864x486 export? I'd rather not re-edit the whole thing...which I would have to do in CS3 after I spent a few hours converting the original files in MPEG Streamclip. I don't know if there is a way to export something out of CS5 and then open a new project in CS3 to make this work.
Thanks in adavance!
- Jordan

On export, just crop a few pixels off of each side; that'll let the image scale correctly to the output frame size without black bars.
I'm not running the trial, but you should still be able to create a custom sequence preset using the Desktop editing mode. Just switch over to the General tab when you create a new sequence, and choose "Desktop" from the editing modes. Set the rest of the parameters as you need them.
Even easier: once you've imported your footage, just drag a clip to the New Item icon at the bottom of the project panel; a sequence will be created matching your footage parameters. You can edit at full-resolution, and then export to your desired frame size when complete--you'll probably still need to crop a few pixels (in the Export Settings window) to eliminate the black bars.

Importing from iMovie 08 to FCE4 - aspect ratio!!

Hello All,
I have clips recorded in iMovie 08 (captured from built-in iSight cam) which I'm trying to import into FCE4. Using the standard FCP XML export in iMovie and opening in FCE4, the aspect ratio of all clips is lost.
I am using the built-in iSight cam to record a video blog (please don't give me flack about not using a dedicated cam), is there a way to preserve the 16:9 aspect ratio from iMovie? I have used the motion settings on the clips to attempt to restore the original aspect ratio (-33 seems to be close), but this seems terribly unscientific and mostly guess work. Thanks.

In the browser (view as list) check the Anamorphic Flag associated with both the imported clip and your sequence: both should be set. My guess your sequence is not 16:9, in this case you only have to set that flag in the browser to fix it.
Setting Aspect Ratio = -33 in the Motion tab restores the right proportions of the original video but creates top and bottom bands in a standard 4:3 video and reduces the original video vertical resolution. The anamorphic flag, instead, fixes the video aspect ratio without losing video quality.
Hope it works
Piero

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