Animation for Widescreen TV

[alfienoakes]

Ok.

 

I have an animation that will probably be played back on a standard 16:9 widescreen plasma, amongst other things. Last animation I did for TV play back, was on an old CRT 4:3, so it was rendered out using the rectangle pixels, at around 768 x 576 ( I think..!)

 

It will possibly be cut to a DVD, probably be used as an MPG on a laptop / desktop.

 

I would like to be able to format it so that I have all base's covered. I will possibly render it larger and then super sample it, frame times permitting.

 

Other problem I have is.. I only have Adobe Premiere 6.5, and from what I remember widescreen was really tricky on it..

 

Any suggestions or such greatly received.. Oh.. and it will be in a PAL format.

[MasterZap]

Widescreen PAL is still 720x576, just different pixel aspect ratio.

 

Although many people render at 1024*576 square pixels and then let the DVD encoding make this "widescreen PAL" pixels.

 

But it does mean you are rendering useless pixels that'll be tossed out/filtered out which COULD generate unforseen artifact issues, if you are unlucky.

 

/Z

[Matt Clementson]

Widescreen PAL is still 720x576, just different pixel aspect ratio.

Pixel aspect is 1.422

[Ray]

Good info in this thread:

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/19382-screen-resolution.html

[alfienoakes]

Cheers guys..

 

This is some good information.. Only bad thing is its all flooding back now; just how confusing it felt the first time..

[MasterZap]

Pixel aspect ratios tend to make peoples heads rotate, especially since almost all programs simply display on your "square pixel" computer with a 1-to-1 pixel mapping. Some software has pixel aspect ratio compensation" (like AfterEffects) but they are few and far between.

 

/Z