16:9 Freeze frame

Hi:

What video standard do you use in Mars: PAL or NTSC? Because the pixel aspect atio of 16:9 video you see it like 4:3 whan opening in Photoshop, because PS uses square pixels and video rectangular pixels. Depending on your video standard you must resize the picture in PS using the right Pixel aspect ratio factor:

PAL 16:9 Pixels Aspect Ratio : 1.422
NTSC 16:9 Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.2

No other way that resize them.

Hope that helps !


Alberto

The simplest method to make a freeze frame from the Timeline (or from another video source in the Viewer) is to choose the frame and chose the menu item "Modify > Make Freeze Frame" (shortcut "Shift N") which will load the current fame into the Viewer as a freeze frame the duration of which is set in "User Preferences" and at the aspect ratio of the source. In Final Cut Pro it will be displayed at the correct aspect ratio so no need to convert.

If you are talking about exporting a freeze frame out of Final Cut Pro as a still then it is a different thing.

The PAL frame is 720 pixels x 576 pixels and this is the same for both 4x3 and 16x9. But the 16x9 image has an anamorphic horizontal squeeze on in it. To see it un-squeezed on a still image simply change the horizontal size from 720 to 1024 pixels in Photoshop and Bob's your uncle.

Not 100% sure for NTSC but I think it is 720 pixels expanded to 853 pixels? No doubt someone can correct me here if this is wrong.

Mmmm. I'm not sure I know what it means either so I googled it ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob's youruncle

So now you know - maybe?

Okay curiousity got the better of me here across the pond and my google found this link

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bob1.htm

Wierd Eh?