[Avid-L2] Re: Has Import behavior changed with the new nomenclature

No that is not correct 640x480 is correct for DV. If I open the graphic in Photoshop it starts as 648x486. If I constrain proportions and change the width to 720 the height is 540. If I change the width to 640 the height is 480 (dv size). It just seems like the top choice of correct sized graphics requires the width to be 720 or something strange happens. I'd really like to confirm if this is new behavior. I always use the top choice for most graphics except for stills.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Philip Hodgetts <philip@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:16 PM, John Moore wrote:
>
> > I was taught in the Avid graphics for media composer class that a
> > photoshop document should be 720x540 or 648x486 on the computer
> > screen to look like it will when it is imported to Avid with non
> > square pixels etc.... Today I had a 648x486 document and choose the
> > top choice graphic is at the right size. Well this F'd the import
> > up I had to choose the bottome resize on import to get it right. I
> > took the same graphic in photoshop and resized it to both 720x540
> > and 720x486 and imported both with the top choice and both are
> > correct and identical. Am I mis remembering this. I thought with
> > the top choice the 648x486 graphic would just get stretched out
> > horizontally yielding the correct aspect ratio in non square
> > pixels. In fact I distinctly remember be told in the Avid class
> > 648x486 was better than 720x540 because there would be no vertical
> > interpolation. I rarely if ever get 648x486 graphics but didn't
> > they use to come in correct with the top
> > choice or am I just hallucinating?
>
>
> 640 x 486 not 486. I think that's why it's not working. 640 x 486 is
> the square pixel equivalent of 720 x 486 non-square pixels.
>
> And Avid is the last NLE standing using 720 x 540 as a source. Apple
> changed with FCP about version 4.5 or 5 and Adobe moved into line with
> the "more accurate" numbers with CS4.
>
> I, however, still use 720 x 540 and scale to 720 x 486 for video use.
>
> Philip
>
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