Jeff Mottle Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Hi all, I'm in the process of editing the reel for the VisMasters awards ceremony and have videos in MANY different sizes and formats. The one problem I am running into is how to determine the original pixel aspect ratio of the raw footage. I have QuickTime and AVI. I can easily determine frame rate and pixel size, but how do I determine the pixel aspect ratio? Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 I think I may have figured it out. In Vegas you can just change the clip to match the current project pixel aspect ratio and it automatically converts it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Are you referring to right click on your video, select media tab, then the pixel aspect ratio pull down? Or is there a way to automatically match project p.a.r. when adding a new clip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 Are you referring to right click on your video, select media tab, then the pixel aspect ratio pull down? Or is there a way to automatically match project p.a.r. when adding a new clip? Yeah I was using the Media tab to do it. I've not seen a way to automatically do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Ah well, maybe in a future release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Does QT even use PARs? When authoring from Premiere, if I want to write a 720 wide file with a PAR 1.2 (which is the way to create a .avi) that's what I set, but the same animation to QT must be set to the end display size of 864 or it displays squished. My impression is that QT does not use PAR for playback. Maybe that's just how Premiere works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I don't know about playback in QT, but there are options to use different par's when rendering to .mov from Vegas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipxstudios Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Combustion will do it fairly easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nils Norgren Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Quicktimes always play back movies with square pixel aspect ratios, but the file will carry the attributes of a special pixel aspect ratio. In this case quicktime is really more of checking tool rather than proofing, any video editing or compositing software that imports quicktime should recognize embeded pixel aspect ratios. You should also be able to force pixel aspect ratio if it is somehow lost. Good luck with the editing! -Nils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Good luck with the editing! A couple of your pieces are in there, so good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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