Forum: Carrara


Subject: Rendering for TV/DVD - non-square pixels?

Hoofdcommissaris opened this issue on Feb 28, 2004 ยท 8 posts


Hoofdcommissaris posted Sat, 28 February 2004 at 5:38 AM

Because I was rendering something in Carrara that was supposed to be square, and because I was using Adobe Illustrator material and stuff from Photoshop, I stumbled upon te subject of non-square pixels. I can not get my head around it: do I have to make a render that is distorted horizontally (stretched) to compensate for the non-square pixels on a tv-screen, or do I make a non-square pixel rendering that, well, just has non-square pixels, like, 'under the hood'? In paint programs you can stretch your art that is supposed to be 720x576 (PAL size) to 768x576, so it will look good on TV. If I use square pixels in this dimensions, I think I do not have to check the box. There is an option, under the render options, that says just that, non-square pixels. I used the value I saw in After Effects and Final Cut Express, 1,07. And when I import it in one of these programs, I interpret it as being non-square pixeled. On my computer monitor this looks like it is not okay, but I suppose it will work out on tv, will it? Has anybody experience with this kind of stuff? If I make the right adjustments in Carrara (or any other app), on importing in After Effects or Final Cut, do I interpret the document as having non-square pixels, or does it get compensated twice then...? Normally I work for print, so I am a bit confused. As you might have noticed...