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1. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
Stan Jones May 25, 2010 4:06 PM (in response to pcford)Also CS3. I have not had this happen. What pixel size/par Premiere sequence was it exported from? Please describe what you did in Photoshop. I think that is where you are going to need to fix this.
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2. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
Bill Hunt May 25, 2010 5:09 PM (in response to pcford)Just do the image editing in PS. Encore is not much of an image, or video editor. I always use the right program for the task.
Good luck,
Hunt
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3. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
pcford May 27, 2010 9:45 PM (in response to Bill Hunt)OK, but don't understand why Interpret Footage will not
do this?
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4. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
Stan Jones May 27, 2010 10:02 PM (in response to pcford)I agree that it should, but perhaps you have a size that is not correctly interpretable.
So what happens when you try to fix it in PS?
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5. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
pcford May 28, 2010 6:10 AM (in response to Stan Jones)If you correct in Photoshop, it works fine...
By the way...this is what I was doing....I took a frame out of some motion graphics in the video to use as background for my menu...added a layer for the button. Photoshop evidently changes the pixel aspect to square...you have to change it back in Photoshop...
I don't understand why Photoshop changes the pixel aspect...or is it changed on export from Premiere?
I now am struggling with subpictures in the Photoshop orginated menu....see my post in this regard...
thanks for your help.
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6. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
Stan Jones May 28, 2010 9:26 AM (in response to pcford)Glad you got it to work.
Curious as to when it switches and what it is switching.
My workflow is to take a template menu or one of mine (that I previously modified from a template) and bring the new background into that. No PAR changes that I've ever noted. The backgrounds include frames exported from Premiere and from Encore. (CS3, but I don't think this should matter.)
I'd look further at what your frame export settings are.
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7. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
Bill Hunt May 28, 2010 9:51 AM (in response to pcford)I took a frame out of some motion graphics in the video to use as background for my menu...added a layer for the button. Photoshop evidently changes the pixel aspect to square...you have to change it back in Photoshop...
Back with CS2 versions, that did work perfectly and the PAR was retained from PrPro to PS to En. It seems that as of CS4 (do not recall hearing of it in CS3, but Stanley can address that), things changed and the PAR from the still Export became Square Pixels. Also, Adobe changed the rounding of the PAR's for rectangular pixels just a bit. What versions are you using?
Good luck,
Hunt
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8. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
Stan Jones May 28, 2010 7:11 PM (in response to Bill Hunt)Well.....
I said I had not noticed this before - CS3.
My test tonight: frame export from Encore works as it should: 720x480, read by PS as .9 PAR.
Frame export from PR using tiff (PR allows you to specify what PAR will be exported), I set .9, saved i PR properties show .9, but PS reads this as SQUARE PIXELS!
Changing PAR in PS to .9 corrects the horizontally stretched image.
so the workaround is easy, but not idea why the problem, and whether it is a problem in PR export or PS read.
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9. Re: Changing Pixel Aspect in a Photoshop Menu used in Encore
Bill Hunt May 29, 2010 10:28 AM (in response to Stan Jones)Stanley,
The first observation of the Square Pixel (when it should have been 0.9 or 1.2) from PrPro was by Ann Bens and it was relating to CS4. For me, the Frame Export works just as it should and I use it all the time, as I do a lot of Play Firsts that are animations to the Menu, so must end with the last Frame exactly matching my Menu's PSD.
Hunt



