Book aspect ratios

one of the annoying things about books in iPhoto was iPhoto's "preference" for a 2x3 aspect ratio. i had to do tons of editing to get photos formatted to show all of the image cropped the way i wanted.
i have started to build a book in Aperture and i am discovering the same cropping by Aperture that i found in iPhoto. is there a way to get my whole image, regardless of how i may have cropped it, onto a page???

never mind, i found the photo box aspect ratio adjustment...

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Hello.
I am trying to put a photo into a book that was edited by someone else. He cropped the photo at an aspect ratio that looks similar to Wide Screen TV format. (Sorry, I can't tell exactly what it is.)
I want to put the photo on an iPhoto book page, but the photo is too wide for the page and it crops the sides off. Is there a way to force iPhoto to fit the photo width and leave blank space at the top and bottom of the photo?
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Dan

Dan:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Control-click on the photo in the frame and select the Fit Photo to Frame Size option. That should fit the long dimension and leave the height with some "white" space on top and bottom. But all should display.
Do you Twango?
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Aspect ratio in books

in older versions of iPhoto, there were controls that allowed me to maintain the aspect ratio of a cropped photo when placing in a book. i can no longer find that. is it still possible to do this?

Right click (control click) on the photo in the book and select fit to frame
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Aspect ratio of pictures in BOOK for iphoto8- square

I seem to be getting a strange aspect ratio in the new iphoto book. it seems to be cropping my landscape pictures into more of a 4x3 or box format. This did not used to happen in the old iphoto. It is extremely annoying as all pictures get cropped out of format. Does anyone know how to revert back to the original format.?
Thanks

mass:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The frames in the book pages are all sized for 4:3. If you want your picture to stay in its original size ratio then Control-click on it and select the Fit Photo to Frame option. You'll have some empty space in the frame, however.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Aspect ratio confusion HDV + DV = mess

Sorry to ask my second question in 24 hours. I think my new problem is as much a case of me not getting the concept as it is of me not understanding the software.
Thanks to the kind folk on this forum I managed to sort out my timeline and get all the clips to overlay properly. I then thought that rather than exporting the whole thing, I should just mark an in and out point on the sequence and create a QT (mov) file from that section, which I would then turn into a short (6 minute) DVD using iDVD. All of that seemed to go really smoothly and quickly BUT when I played the DVD on a Sony LCD TV I realised that the aspect ratio has gone wrong. There are black bars at the top and bottom, even though it is a 16:9 TV and the source material is 16:9 (albeit in different formats - see below). The people look a bit squashed on the TV screen and the aspect ratio of the video part of the picture when it appears on the TV screen is more like 2.35:1 than 16:9.
Then I looked back at the Canvas in FCE and realised that there are black bars on the Canvas above and below the video, which I had been ignoring because I thought they were background... I am praying that I don't have to re-edit the whole thing now. I measured (with a ruler!) the proportions of the image I am getting in the canvas and sure enough it is a black box at 4:3 aspect ratio with a video image in the middle at 16:9. I guess I must be sending a 4:3 image out to Quicktime at 16:9, which just squishes everything and leaves the black bars. I could cry, really.
Here is the tech information. I have a Sequence on the timeline from 3 video sources:
1. A DV clip that is 720 x 576 from a Sony camera shooting in widescreen mode
2. An HDV clip (now in Apple Intermediate Codec) that is at 1440x1080 from a Canon HV40
3. Another PAL DV clip at 720 x 576 which started life on the hard drive of a borrowed camera and had to be converted to something usable from a proprietary JVC format
I've just noticed - and this may not be important - that clips 1 and 3 have "anamorphic" ticked when you look at their properties in the browser, whereas clip 2 (the HDV one) doesn't have that ticked.
What can I do to rescue my project and create a proper 16:9 format DVD without re-editing for 50 hours?
Thanks
Andrew

Hello Tom, I just realised that you wrote the book that's sitting on the desk next to me... I thought that name looked familiar.
Thanks for your reply. My media is in pretty much equal parts: the performance I was filming ran for an hour and I kept all three cameras running for the whole performance. Having edited between the camera outputs now, the least used is from the JVC camera. The other two (HDV and DV) are roughly equally used but the DV was the wide shot so has no edits in the timeline sequence - the other two video tracks are above it. The sequence setting, if I'm looking in the right place, seems to be DV PAL 48kHz. I don't see a place to set the aspect ratio other than in the Canvas zoom where there is a "preserve aspect ratio" setting that is ticked.
Andrew

Aspect ratio of displayed pictures wrong?

My PC display has an aspect ratio of 5:4 (1280 x 1024). LR uses the full display area but doesn't ensure that the pictures are displayed at their correct aspect ratio. A 3:2 picture actually displays as ~4:3. This is true for all displays of a picture including the slideshow.
Maybe there is a setting somewhere to fix this, but I wouldn't expect so because dealing with the aspect ratio of a screen within a program is really elementary.
(maybe it's just my PC or my ruler that measures differently vertically than it does horizontally)

If you've got Photoshop CS - CS4, you can change the pixel aspect ratio of your photos to .9 DV.
Otherwise, you can right-click on one of the pictures on the timeline and select Open Properties. Then open the Motion settings and uncheck Constrain Proportions for Scale and set the scale for the horizontal to 90%. That should make that picture perfect.
Then right-click on that picture on your timeline and select Copy, then lasso or shift-click to select all the other photos on your timeline, right-click and select Paste Attributes.
Great book I wrote, by the way. Full of gems like this! ;)

Aspect ratio cropping for a Folio

I understand that digital SLR cameras have an aspect ratio 2:3.
Do ALL Photobooks 8.5x11 require 4:3 ?
Thanks!

Missed that - do not have a DSLR so have no idea of the ratio they shoot - but the answer is still the same
The frames for all iPhoto photo books are 4:3 - you can right click on a photo (control click) and choose fit to frame or you can click on it and a slider appears above the photo frame that lets you adjust the size of the photo and a hand appears that you can select and move the photo within the frame
You can use a non 4:3 photo but have to either fit to frame of enlarge (exxentially cropping) to fill
LN

Mac book aspect ration on Plasma TV

Hi,
I've just connected my mac book to my 42" plasma TV. It looks really good and I'm looking forward to watching films on it. However the entire desktop is ever so slightly squashed. I'm running in 1024x768. The TV can display 1280x1024 at the correct aspect ratio, however all the fonts are squashed and unreadable at this resolution.
My question is, how can I adjust the aspect ration of the mac desktop?
Or if anyone else has any tips I'd be very grateful.
Thanks
Rich

I would check the LG user manual to see if there is any information relating to picture size and centering controls as a way to deal with the overscan problem. Some people have been able to reduce or eliminate overscan using odd resolutions in SwitchRes X, but it's impossible to give specific advice about how to go about doing that. The only way to get that kind of advice is from someone who has been down that road with that exact TV. You may have better luck over at the AVS Forum in that case.
As for the text, it may never get any better than what you are already seeing. You are up against a few different problems in this regard. One is the matter of rectangular pixels as it relates to font rendering, and anamorphic displays in general. Another is that upscaling is taking place, namely 1280 pixels per line are being mapped into an actualy 1024 pixels of resolution. Upscaling or upsampling will never result in very good looking text. And finally, consider that 1024 x 768 native resolution is not very much resolution. Basically, that is the same resolution as an older Mac iBook screen, which was 12 inches in size. You have the same resolution on a 42-inch screen, so naturally it isn't going to look very crisp.

Has anyone else encountered a problem with poster frames not recognising a video's pixel aspect ratio

I'm discovering a strange effect with some of the .mp4 videos I've upload into iBooks Author. They're Pal SD 4:3 .movs with a 16:9 pixel aspect ratio and they play out fine on the iPad. However the iBooks software seems to be ignoring the pixel aspect ratio of the poster frame. This leads to the situation.
1) When I drag my video into iBooks author all looks good - the video is 16:9 and if I choose to set a poster frame (or leave it at default) it looks 16:9 in the iBooks Author.
2) I preview my book and it opens in iBooks on the iPad. But now the poster frame aspect ratio is 4:3
3) I click on the video to start playing and it immediately jumps to 16:9 aspect ratio and plays out fine.
4) If it scroll down a couple of pages and then scroll back the video poster frame has now reset itself to 4:3
This sounds like a bug to me. Anyone else had it? Do you know if it's possible to report bugs without having a Developer licence?
Thanks for any help
Rob

While there is no formal bug reporting method similar to what devs have w/apps, iBA does have a 'Provide iBooks Author Feedback' menu item.

Nested sequences change aspect ratio of clips underneath them

Premiere Pro 6.0.5
Mac Book Pro Retina
See attached screen shots:
1. Nested sequence is off - everything under is is crisp and proper aspect ratio
2. Nested sequence is on - everything under it is blurry and wrong aspect ratio
3. Only nested sequence is on - so you can see it does NOT contain the layers underneath it by mistake
Why is this happening? It's really troubling... It generally happens when I go to render my sequence - it goes all haywire wrong aspect ratio when rendered with that transparent nested sequence above everything.
Image 1:
Nested sequence is off - everything under is is crisp and proper aspect ratio
Image 2:
Nested sequence is on - everything under it is blurry and wrong aspect ratio (it gets pushed up - see black line that is formed on the bottom)
Image 3:
Only nested sequence is on - so you can see it does NOT contain the layers underneath it by mistake

Crap... I noticed that this glitch now spread to even clips that have NOTHING above them. The scaling is wrong, and image quality gets a bit blurry after rendering. It always squishes my clips up after rendering, but they look absolutely perfect pre-render.
New example:
1. Clip 01 - Opacity slightly turned down to destroy the rendered preview - looks perfect:
2. Clip 01 - Opacity all the way up, clip rendered wrong - bottom squishes up. Whyyyyy:

Aspect ratio for stills in a video - Pre 11

My camcorder is set to 16:9 aspect ratio. Pre11 seems to know that and automatically uses that format. My still camera is usually set to 4:3. I frequently add some stills to my videos at the end - add some music and use cross dissolve transitions. Those pictures keep their 4:3 aspect ratio (which I personally like for most stills).
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Select your still on your timeline, then click the Adjust button to open the Adjustments panel. Open the Motion properties, then click the Show Keyframe Controls button (the stop watch) in the upper right corner of the panel.
I show you step by step how to keyframe motion path pan & zooms in my books, if you're interested.
http://Muvipix.com/pe11.php
And, if you just want to learn the basics of the program, I've got a free 8 part Basic Training tutorial series for Premiere Elements 11.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685?tstart=0

Ignore aspect ratio from Olympus master

Hello,
I have a problem with Aperture in combination with the pictures from my camera. I got an Olympus PL-3 shooting raws in 4032 * 3024 (4:3).
Now some time ago it seems that I accidentaly switched the aspect ratio in the settings of the camera from 4:3 to 3:2.
A book about the camera says that the camera always saves the 4:3 data in the raw but sizes the JPG to 3:2. As I import the pictures into Aperture and switch through them Aperture always has to load the picture for about 7 seconds until the ratio is correct. But then still the cropped version is shown though Aperture should ignore the crop. Is there any possibility I can get the 4:3 format?
Because on my camera as I switch through the pictures on it I can see the WHOLE raw file and not the cropped version. I found no setting in aperture to do so.
May anyone help me?
Greetings,
Andreas

Hi Andreas. I'm not following this part:
AndiMu wrote:
But then still the cropped version is shown though Aperture should ignore the crop.
Aperture is decoding and converting the RAW file (this is what takes the 7 seconds on your machine), but even then the Image you see is in 3:2 (not 4:3) and is cropped (not uncropped)? Is this in Browser, the Viewer, or both?
The camera manual is correct. The RAW file should be the full-size 4:3 dataset. You may find it useful to tell Aperture to ignore the JPG file that the camera provides along with the RAW file. Set this at "Aperture➞Preferences➞Import➞Post Import Processing". Unless you work under strict professional deadlines, I suggest keeping this set to "Standard Previews".
(Added)
Also, make sure that you have no Adjustment Presets applied on import. And you should -- it seems -- make sure your camera is set back to 4:3.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

Premiere Elements 3.0- Aspect ratio of inserted pictures is skewed

I am inserting some pictures into my project that are the exact same size (720x480) as my final video export, however, they are getting squished down in the previews and in the final export, look more like 640x480.
Is there a way I can control this or prevent it from happening?
Thanks in advance!

If you've got Photoshop CS - CS4, you can change the pixel aspect ratio of your photos to .9 DV.
Otherwise, you can right-click on one of the pictures on the timeline and select Open Properties. Then open the Motion settings and uncheck Constrain Proportions for Scale and set the scale for the horizontal to 90%. That should make that picture perfect.
Then right-click on that picture on your timeline and select Copy, then lasso or shift-click to select all the other photos on your timeline, right-click and select Paste Attributes.
Great book I wrote, by the way. Full of gems like this! ;)

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?
thanks,
b.

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.

Controlling aspect ratio within calendar

is there a way to put a photo into a calendar frame and retain the photo's exact aspect ratio? i find that some of my photos are being cropped by iPhoto to fit into the full page. if not, what is the aspect ratio of the full page?
also, how can i determine the aspect ratios of the frames with multiple pictures?

Forrest:
The default size I believe is 4:3 ratio. However if you Control-click on the photo you'll get a Contextual menu option "Fit Photo to Frame Size" that will do the trick. You'll get some white space at the top and bottom possibly but you'll have the entire photo in the frame.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.

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