switiching between square and rectangular pixels.

[Konton]

I know video uses the .9 pixels, but have many of you captured film frame by frame with a digital camera and then translated it to the .9 pixels? How did it look? I'm worried it would look worse if you changed it.

[christoph]

I know video uses the .9 pixels, but have many of you captured film frame by frame with a digital camera and then translated it to the .9 pixels? How did it look? I'm worried it would look worse if you changed it.

done this a lot of times to import stills into a video project. in PAL, what i do is resize and crop the image to 768x576 keeping the proportions, then squeeze that frame to 720x576.
for NTSC, i guess you would start with resizing to 720x540, then squeeze to 720x486.

++ christoph ++

[mattias]

christoph is of course dead on. or you can use photoshop which has the pixel aspect ratio of dv (pal/ntsc/16:9) built in. so does fcp by the way. just feed it square pixels and it will be converted automatically.

/matt

[Meltwater Hawk]

I work in television commercials and do this a ton. To make the pixels/picture concurrent with NTSC 4:3 then you have to make the size of 720x480. 720x486 would be slightly off, though not noticable.

[S8 Booster]

AP 6.5 for the MAC imports square dv pixels and sexport square or 1.067. transformation is brilliant at 720x576. Planning to post a sample later. Original square pixels seem to be 0.9 at least for NTSC.

sample clip after: (full size PAL 26mb)
ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/video ... le_pix.mov

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