How to render anim widescreen?

[Stephen Thomas]

I am reworking an old animation and wanted to try a widescreen version for playback on PAL tv and on computer. Output size is standard PAL 720x576, am I right in thinking that it is simply a matter of changing the pixel aspect ratio to 1.422? This gives the right 16:9 ratio when I turn on safe frames, but when I render an image the result still appears to be at 4:3 ratio.

 

Will this be corrected when I convert stills to video? I will be using Adobe production studio CS2 (Premiere, Encore DVD) to create DVD for playback on widescreen tv and computer.

 

Any advice on this appreciated, also compression codecs, I assume MPEG2 is ok? Not used the Adobe software yet!

 

Thanks in advance!

[Stephen Thomas]

Just having a play around since no ones bitten yet. Discovered interpret footage option in Premiere which seems to be the answer to my initial question (confirm anybody?).

 

However I have confused myself further, I see that in the settings dialogue box when setting up a new project in premiere it only has options for fields of either upper or lower first. Should I be rendering to fields in max? Not exactly sure what a field is!

[AJLynn]

Fields refer to video interlacing. It's used in any old-style (not progressive or HD, e.g. anything you can hook up with an RCA, S-Video or coax cable) NTSC or PAL video and it's why you usually have to deinterlace when working with DVD video source. It's the kind of thing Premiere ought to take care of for you depending on what kind of output you want. Presumably the aspect ratio for the video would get set up during the DVD encoding - it's a flag that gets set in the DVD files.

[Stephen Thomas]

Sorted the PAR issue, anim is now rendering, thanks for the help. I'll post again after rendering is finished and I try outputting to DVD.