Question about aspect ratio/resizing images

hi. i am currently working on a video project for a class, creating a presentation with iMovie and iPhoto. I simply need to display a logo, however, when i import it into iMovie from iPhoto, the picture is wide and pixelated, of low quality. when i change the aspect ratio to 16:9, the image is too large to fit. however, i cannot resize it via iPhoto to fit within the 16:9 ratio. i'm simply trying to get an individual photo from iPhoto to fit within a frame in iMovie. is there a quick way of converting it to fit or resizing it within iMovie?

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Question about aspect ratio...

hey all,
Just got my Apple TV last night and I'm loving it so far.
My question is about aspect ratios and "filling up the screen". When I watched some documentaries and some episodes of "The Office" (from iTunes Store) - the rntire TV's screen was used and looked beautiful.
However, when I watched the latest episode of "LOST" from iTunes, it was having big black areas to the left and right of the 4:3 content in the middle, and I was unable to choose any "stretching" or "panorama" effects using the TV's remote as I do with normal non-HD TV signal usually.
a) Am I doing something wrong? and/or b) are the iTunes TV show sizes and aspect ratios different from different shows?
Any help appreciated...
/// martin

HDMI and DVI do have signal length limitations. it is digital, so should result in a perfect reception of any transmitted signals... if it works at all, including error checking / dropped packets. i generally choose component over HDMI / DVI for medium to long runs, just because it is the only real option without using very expensive cabling or active repeaters / transcoders. usually we are running lots of component video sources anyways, so just go with component all the way around. HDMI / DVI is used for local sources, right adjacent to the TV, only if it is very convenient.
Here is my beef with HDMI:
1) the HDMI consortium took a perfectly good format, DVI, and ruined it with DRM controls... it takes from 15 seconds or more for the handshake to arbitrate, leaving users with a black screen as they switch sources.
2) unprofessional connector that easily falls out... up there with the people who designed the S-Video connector - acually worse.
3) incomplete initial specs and now various emerging specifications and lackluster adherence to the specifications by different manufacturers...
4) completely random and unexplicable incompatibilities between different sources, displays, cables, and switchers.
5) the licensing arrangement that the HDMI consortium has for manufacturers to pay money for the right to use.... a revenue generating function that has sort of took over the reason for the consortiums existence versus advancements in consumer electronics technologies.
i think that DVI/HDMI is better, but that has to be qualified. the current output thaty ou see on set top boxes and Apple TV is highly compressed. in the case of the ITMS, most of it is not even "DVD quality" yet, let alone "close to DVD quality". this is a limitation in the content, or ITMS selection of content, more so than the architecture of the store.
asking whether HDMI/DVI is better than component with respect to Apple TV is like asking if it is better to use an Apogee Digital DAC versus a Radio Shack DAC when listening to MP3s at 64kbps. in other words, don't think about it too much.
the 10% of people that are having problems with HDMI can probably eliminate most all problems by switching over to component and don't need to fret over image quality.

Question about Aspect Ratios

I believe that the 'wide screen' view popular on LCD televisions these days is a 16:9 aspect ratio with 1280x720 video pixels also being the same ratio on a computer screen. This is opposed to the more traditional 4:3 aspect ratio for what has been standard video in the past.
Here's a reference I found about working with the 16:9 screen ratio in FCP, which, I hope, means that it is also possible to work with this format in FCE:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/understanding_169.html
Is there a way to produce this 'wide screen' format in FCE? If so, how do you set it up and see it displayed in viewer and canvas?
TIA,
Ken

I am disappointed in my shooting with the 7D, but I'll bet I have all of my settings wrong. I used a top quality 17-55 2.8 lens and mounted on a solid video tripod. What I expected was crisp sharp image quality and got something less. Maybe I am expecting too much, but most likely, I need to get my settings right, especially to get highest quality out from StreamClip. I wrote down and will use what you gave me in another thread: 1.) Apple Intermediate Codec, 2.) AVCHD, 3.) 1920x1080:60.
I'm sticking with those settings so now I need to figure out how to set the camera so I am recording at 1920x1080 in the first place. That is the area where I think the problem was that gave me the fuzzy video here:
http://vthumb.ak.fbcdn.net/vthumb-ak-sf2p/v50581/177/82/1485954530/t148595453015633510121281345.jpg

CUSTOM ASPECT RATIO SQUISHING IMAGE

I have a 720x486 clip that I'm cutting into a 300x250 sequence. Problem I'm finding is in both square & DV pixel aspect ratios, my image is being "squished" both horizontally and vertically.
Any ideas on how to keep my original D1 aspect ratios within a modified 300x250 sequence?
Thanks in Advance!
Trevin
g5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) work

Is there no way to place a D1 clip into a custom aspect sequence without it modifiying the original clip?
As long as your Pixel Aspect ratio is correct, you should not see distortion. FCP will scale a clip when you drop it in, but it should not distort it.
In my experience, this works best if you start with an 8-bit sequence (aka 720x486) and then alter its Aspect Ratio - not its Pixel Aspect Ratio, though - from CCIR 601 NTSC (40:27) to Custom. Then alter your frame size to 300x250.
Of course, once you've placed your clips into the sequence, you'll need to remove the scaling (but it should not distort any of them).
I've had to do things in unique aspect ratios, and I've never had an issue so long as I've done it this way.
Care to share your workflow?

Emergency Question Re: Aspect Ratio

I'm shooting for the first time today with an HD Camera. I'm going to shoot in SD, but which aspect ratio? 16:9 or 4:3? I don't know what type of TV the video will ultimately be viewed on, but I'd like the flexibility for it to look great on both widescreen and standard TVs (letterboxed).
Thanks.

I'd like the flexibility for it to look great on both widescreen and standard TVs (letterboxed).
Agreed. It's a subjective thing, but widescreens conforms more closely to the area of vision of the human eye. Here is how I achieve that. (see the punch line at the end):
HOW TO MAINTAIN 16:9 ASPECT FROM IMPORT TO BURN
This is the way I do it. There is no compulsion on you to do it my way, but this works (for me). I started this method before iMovie and iDVD were upgraded to 6.0.3, and because not all elements of the various iDVD themes (particularly the pre-iDVD 6 ones) are consistent in keeping to 16:9 throughout the process.
The widescreen preview works just fine when you check your finished project within iDVD. The problem only happens when you either burn a project or save it to an image.
The reason this bug is present is because iDVD incorrectly sets a single binary value to 1 instead of 0 in the .IFO and .BUP files that correspond to widescreen .VOB titles. If this value is set to 1, it instructs a DVD player to prohibit shifting to widescreen mode, even though another binary value that specifies the 16:9 format instead of 4:3 is properly set.
The simple translation of how to fix it is to open the .IFO and .BUP files, change the value (you do it in hexadecimal, which means it changes from 4F to 4E), save, then burn to DVD.
The reality is, it’s a bit trickier because you have to first copy iDVD’s disk image to your hard drive, change the read-only permissions on both the files and the VIDEO_TS folder to permit writing, save the changes, then run the whole folder through DVD Imager which saves a new disk image to burn that will be recognizable by DVD players.
That was one way to do it (and applies particularly to iDVD 5) but if, like me, you don’t fancy mucking about with hexadecimal, then here is an alternative.
A bug in iDVD 6, particularly when working with PAL, and which has been reported to Apple, is that the sub-menus in many of the themes (the chapter settings) default to 4:3 aspect, NTSC and mpeg 1, instead of the desired 16:9 in mpeg 2 in PAL. This may be partly a leftover from iDVD 5 or even a newer ‘feature’ of iDVD 6. Either way, it is annoying when it happens, and we must hope Apple cure it in iDVD 7. In the meantime here is my failsafe workaround, which sounds a lot more complicated when reading about it, that it is in practise.
Living in the UK, I use PAL (25 fps). Wherever you see a reference to PAL (25 fps) in the following you may substitute NTSC (30 fps) in the various settings mentioned (if you don’t live in Europe), the basic idea is the same. I still use this method, and take these steps, regardless of whether it is always necessary. Worst case scenario: it would have worked anyway. Best case scenario: it works perfectly where it otherwise wouldn’t!
The object of the exercise is therefore to ‘fix’ all constituent parts of the project (video, titles, theme, effects, even audio!) in the desired 16:9 aspect to avoid producing a DVD where the movie is in 16:9 and the menu is in 4:3 or where other irritating surprises lurk in your project, which you only discover after burning a coaster!
First go to http://www.mydvdedit.com/index.php?lang=english and download myDVDedit. This is shareware although the download is free. Send the guy a few dollars/euros, he deserves it. While you are there, read all about it. Now install it in your Applications Folder. You will need it later.
You have finished your iMovie project with music, transitions and so on, and saved it to you Movies Folder. Before you started the project you naturally set it to DV Widescreen.
Open iDVD. Give the project a name, and save it as Widescreen if it didn’t default to the same aspect as your iMovie project. Now import the iMovie project into iDVD, choose a theme (any theme you like, even if it prefers to stay at 4:3) and save the project. Do what you would normally do to the theme and its drop zones. Save the project.
Now save as Disk Image on your desktop. Leave it there for the moment when it has finished/appeared.
Open your Movies Folder. Create a new folder. Name it PROJECTNAME – TS FILES (where ‘projectname’ is the name of your project!). Close the folder. You can of course call it anything you like, but this aids identification.
Now double-click the disk image on your desktop. It contains two folders: AUDIO_TS (which is empty, but please pretend that it isn’t) and VIDEO_TS. Drag and drop these to the folder you created in your Movies Folder. (This takes a moment).
Click on the AUDIO_TS folder and go to Get Info in the file menu. Right down the bottom is where you have to change the permissions. Under ‘Ownership & Permissions’ change this from Read Only to Read & Write. Click the small triangle next to Details, scroll down and click on ‘Apply to enclosed items’. You will be asked for your root password. Close the get info window, and now click on the VIDEO_TS folder and do the same. Close the Projectname-TS Files folder. You have now allowed yourself to change the properties of the contents of those folders, which leads us to the next all-important step.
Open myDVDedit. Go to File and open the projectname TS Files folder. By all means stare at it shock and awe, but don’t bother finding out what it can do, except for the following:
Top left you fill see a list of files. Lower centre you have a large window. On the vertical menu to the left of that, click IFO.
In the window at the top left, ignore ‘First Play’ (if there was anything to correct in that, myDVDedit will have done so and told you).
Click on VMG Menu en (English). Now the whole thing springs to life.
Set Coding Mode to MPEG-2 (if it isn’t already)
Set Standard to PAL (or NTSC if that is what you want)
Set Aspect to 16:9 (not any of the other options)
Now save the file.
Click on VTS Menu 1 en (English) and repeat as above.
Click on VTS Menu 2 and repeat as above.
You have now permanently ‘fixed’ the entire contents of the TS folder (the disk image) in 16:9 aspect. Close myDVDedit – you won’t need it again until the next project!
If you have Toast 7 Titanium, open it. ‘Select DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS’. Choose Select from the main Toast window and select your projectname-TS Files folder. You are now ready to burn! You can set the burn speed (2x recommended) before the burn commences. Allow Toast to verify the burn before you eject the DVD-R disk.
If you don’t have Toast 7, then I assume you can burn the projectname-TS Files folder (disk image) via Disk Utility. I say ‘assume’ only because I have never tried it that way.
Either way, you now have a DVD which will play as 16:9 widescreen on any TV set, even the old ones where you can’t ask it to letter-box.

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In the Metrics inspector window, uncheck the box next to "Constrain proportions".
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I have these ai files from a company logo I want to use to build up a wall of the cross shapes seen in the screen shot. My problem is that I have not been able to figure out how to have the replicator maintain the square aspect ratio of the image. What am I missing?
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Drew

The only time I've seen something like this is when the original file was saved with an aspect ratio and *non-square* pixels. Adobe applications (Photoshop is the one I know) have presets for video, like NTSC 720x480 in either 16:9 or 4:3 aspect. Taking the 16:9 as an example, what should be 854x480 pixels is saved as 720x480 and the pixel widths are set to be interpreted as 1.21 times wider. In other applications, this will appear to be about 21% squeezed when viewed as square pixels.
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Then, there is the Pixel Aspect Ratio. Many Video Images do not use Square Pixels (PAR = 1.0), but instead a Pixel Aspect Ratio. This will be something like PAR = 1.212 (SD Widescreen), PAR = 0.9 (SD Standard), etc..
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Good luck,
Hunt
PS - For more discussion on Video PAR, this ARTICLE should be useful.

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5) Is there any convenient way to layers with canvas besides just controlling the order in which the images are painted. (I will admit I haven't searched for this information yet, because I just thought about it.)
6) Is there any other information you guys would care to bestow on me?
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Okay, well I got it to work by drawing them both to the same canvas. duh I guess.
Can you have more than one canvas in a frame? How do you set the size if so.
How do I implement the z-order? I thought of doing it manually by sending the paint method a list of objects to paint and manually managing the order of that list. Would that be an acceptable way to do it?
Should I only be trying to paint to one canvas? What I would like to do is have several canvases with transparent backgrounds so that I can draw different layers in the same frame. That way flying stuff would be painted on a different canvas than stuff on the ground, and then putting it all in a frame would tie the pictures together into a scene. Kind of like how they do distance in animation by having different layers of drawings on clear plastic that they can move at different speeds to give the illusion of depth.
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Hopefully a quick question... We have client push installation enabled site-wide in our SCCM 2012 implementation. What is expected behavior if a workstation is rebuilt on the same hardware with the same name and the same AD computer account is
reused?
So, for example, one of my coworkers asked me about his workstation. He reinstalled Windows on it recently but the SCCM client hasn't installed since he rebuilt. SCCM shows the client (the one tied to his old SMS GUID I imagine) as inactive.
There is no ccmsetup folder in c:\windows on his newly built workstation - I can't find any evidence that the client attempted to install. I confirmed that the OU where his computer account is located does fall under the OU structure configured in Active
Directory System Discovery. He said that when he joined it to the domain he was prompted (as expected I believe) that there was already a computer account with the same name and asked if he wanted to use the existing account, which he did.
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The installed flag prevents Configuration Manager from reinstalling the client when automatic site-wide client push installation is enabled.
Delete aged discovery data
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I think the newly built workstation should be assigned a new GUID.
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To clarify. Nothing happens to your originals. Lightroom stores the edits in a database (and if you wish alongside the original in a xmp sidecar file) as a set of instructions that the program uses to recreate the end product by following the instructions. These instructions are changed in the database while you're changing parameter values in Lightroom, so there is no need to save. Also, Lightroom stores a history of changes you did, so you can always go back. Both Lightroom and Adobe's camera raw plugin for photoshop can be used to follow the set if instructions. This way, you always get the highest fidelity image and you can always go back to your development choices without loosing any quality or having to dig up backups. Because of this, you can create multiple virtual copies with different development approaches without having to make a copy of the original and therefore saving you gobs and gobs of disk space. When you need a file for consumption such as a jpeg for a web page, simply export a copy, which burns in your development changes in a developed copy (just like printing a negative would have in the olden days) and trash the copy when you're done with it. You can always recreate it very quickly. This is a radically different approach than you're probably used to.

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In the scene menu, when I'm making menu buttons and want to use a clip 'photo' rather than a motion clip, I know I uncheck the movie box, and move the cursor to get the picture. That said, it seems there are at least several seconds between these clips, and I can never stop on or find the exact image I want for the chapter. This seems to be the case in iMovie, too, when I'm bookmarking chapters.
Is there a way to fine-tune the scroll so I can see move seens rather than having the gaps? I've looked all over the place for a way to do this, so sorry if it is something obvious that I missed.
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Thanks for your reply. I'll try to explain it better. I have a long, vertically scrolling movie clip. This movie clip contains lots of thumbnails. When I click a thumbnail, the full sized image is loaded from the library and displayed within the same movie clip. when I click the full size movie clip, it disappears again, and I can click another thumbnail to display another full size image. So I'm not just adding more and more stuff to the gallery if that's what you were thinking. I'm just clicking thumbnails to display the full size image so I can look at it, closing it, and moving on.
But the full sized image is fixed at the very top of the scrolling movie clip, so if I click a thumbnail at the very bottom, I have to scroll all the way back up to the top to see the full size image. I just want the full size image to appear on screen no matter how far down I have scrolled to click a thumbnail.
I made my basic gallery useing this tutorial:
http://flashexplained.com/actionscript/making-the-ultimate-dynamic-image-gallery-in-flash- 8/
if you want to take a look at that, to get an idea of what I'm talking about.
Now I'm just trying to add some scrolling functionality, which wasn't included, but I don't really understand actionscript well enough to do this easily on my own.
Sorry for the long reply. I hope this is clearer.

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I know how to load an image and to draw it onto a canvas etc etc. However my question is to do with the efficiency of loading multiple images (possibly the same image!) and using them together. I have multiple objects, all instances of the same class, which all draw themselves onto a screen in different positions. However they all use the same 3 images (depending on an internal state).
So if I create 5 of these objects and each object calls to load the same image using something along the lines of:
url = this.getClass().getResource("MyImage.png");
normalImage = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(url);Does this mean that in the memory there are 5 exactly the same copies of this image? Or does java do something clever and use one image that they would all reference? I suspect I will have 5 in memory but I wanted to ask about this before going and making an imageManager class where I load all the images and just use getMethods in that when drawing. I will not be preforming any transforms or anything on any of the images so they can all literally be the same image but simply drawn in multiple positions on the one canvas.
(note: I am using active rendering to draw these images myself and then blit it to the screen ...).

Use ImageIO rather than Toolkit--with Toolkit you need to use a MediaTracker to ensure you have your image loaded before you try to use it.
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MyImage2 = MyImage;
MyImage3 = MyImage;
There are 4 references to the Image in MyImage. If you don't specifically use a method that gives you a new Image, usually, you are getting a refrence to an image already loaded in memory.

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