jeepsterryan
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Warning: long post, but this is the short version and I really need to lean on your knowledge, so thanks in advance for reading:dankk2:
I'm going to try and give the short version of my question so you don't get bored befor the end, but I need some help. We have a project that we just shot in HD (1080) on our HVX200. The final product will be delivered in 4:3 SD, but we wanted to store the origianl footage in HD. Using premiere pro cs3 we imported the footage into an SD 4:3 project and produced our edited footage with logo intros and credits. We then exported the footage as a raw .avi and sent the project to the client. The client encodes the project as .asf files (using an h.264 codec I think) for streaming on the web. Now the problem - we have sent them similar projects before that were shot with a sony FX1 in SD, letterboxed in cs3, and exported to raw .avi. The company encoded the video and the streaming worked great. Now, with the HD footage scaled down and letterboxed in cs3, the clients encoder reads the raw .avi as being a 16:9 aspect ratio, sends it through the encoding process twice, and the resuliting streaming video has major audio sync problems as a result. We need to get the encoder to see the original footage as 4:3 (which is what it really is). The only thing that I can think would cause the problem might be that the original HD footage is shot with a rectangular pixel and I think the FX1 SD image is a square pixel. Can anyone confirm that the above statement is true? Also, assuming that is the problem, is there anything I can do to convert the rectangular pixels to square during the editing process? Or, can anyone offer a different theory as to the actual problem?
I'm going to try and give the short version of my question so you don't get bored befor the end, but I need some help. We have a project that we just shot in HD (1080) on our HVX200. The final product will be delivered in 4:3 SD, but we wanted to store the origianl footage in HD. Using premiere pro cs3 we imported the footage into an SD 4:3 project and produced our edited footage with logo intros and credits. We then exported the footage as a raw .avi and sent the project to the client. The client encodes the project as .asf files (using an h.264 codec I think) for streaming on the web. Now the problem - we have sent them similar projects before that were shot with a sony FX1 in SD, letterboxed in cs3, and exported to raw .avi. The company encoded the video and the streaming worked great. Now, with the HD footage scaled down and letterboxed in cs3, the clients encoder reads the raw .avi as being a 16:9 aspect ratio, sends it through the encoding process twice, and the resuliting streaming video has major audio sync problems as a result. We need to get the encoder to see the original footage as 4:3 (which is what it really is). The only thing that I can think would cause the problem might be that the original HD footage is shot with a rectangular pixel and I think the FX1 SD image is a square pixel. Can anyone confirm that the above statement is true? Also, assuming that is the problem, is there anything I can do to convert the rectangular pixels to square during the editing process? Or, can anyone offer a different theory as to the actual problem?