{"id":1859,"date":"2011-06-27T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:15:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:15:17","slug":"video-tutorial-a-discussion-about-import-rules-and-pixel-aspect-ratio-in-avid-media-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/video-tutorial-a-discussion-about-import-rules-and-pixel-aspect-ratio-in-avid-media-composer\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Tutorial: A Discussion about Import Rules and Pixel Aspect Ratio in Avid Media Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an editor, you may not always think through the myriad of choices you have with regard to things like <em>frame size, pixel aspect ratio, luma, chroma, alpha channels and field ordering<\/em> each time you import an image into <strong>Avid Media Composer<\/strong>. But if you&#8217;ve ever been left with an imported image that doesn&#8217;t look the way it did before you imported it, you may be interested to learn more.\u00a0 To understand everything about your options, check out the PremiumBeat blog posts <em>Demystifying the Avid Import Settings Dialog Box<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/demystifying-the-avid-import-settings-dialog-box-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/demystifying-the-avid-import-settings-dialog-box-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Part 2<\/a>.\u00a0 However, to get a step-by-step glimpse at how<strong> image size and pixel aspect ratio<\/strong> can affect the integrity of your image, check out this video tutorial.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/25607208?portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"this-avid-media-composer-video-tutorial-will-help-you\">This Avid Media Composer video tutorial will help you:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the resolutions and pixel aspect ratios of SD and HD media<\/li>\n<li>Understand the relationship between Photoshop pixel aspect ratios and Avid Media Composer pixel aspect ratios<\/li>\n<li>Successfully resize graphics in Ph0toshop to compensate for the difference in pixel aspect ratios between the two softwares<\/li>\n<li>Import correctly sized graphics from Photoshop<\/li>\n<li>Change the pixel aspect ratio of graphics in Photoshop before importing the images into Avid Media Composer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>________________<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"a-summary-of-the-specific-formats-and-pixel-aspect-ratios-which-were-covered-in-this-video-tutorial\">A summary of the specific formats and pixel aspect ratios, which were covered in this video tutorial:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SD-HD-flavors-pixels-square.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SD-HD-flavors-pixels-square-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By default, Photoshop creates its graphics using square pixels.\u00a0 Avid Media Composer uses square pixels in its HD projects, <em>but it uses non-square pixels in its SD projects. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Therefore:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For HD projects, simply create the exact size of graphic for import as the video resolution<\/strong>.\u00a0 For example, create a 1920&#215;1080 graphic to be imported into a 1080i or 1080p project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For SD projects, y0u need to compensate for size or pixel aspect ratio before importing into Avid Media Composer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a graphics sized 648&#215;486 (square pixel) to be imported into a 4&#215;3 SD project sized 720&#215;486 (non-square pixel)<\/li>\n<li>Create a graphic sized 864&#215;486 (square pixel) to be imported into a 16&#215;9 SD project<\/li>\n<li>Or, change the pixel aspect ratio to non-square pixels (D1\/DV NTSC 0.91) in Photoshop before importing the image into Avid Media Composer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Full Video Transcription<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello. This is Ashley Kennedy with PremiumBeat.com, here to show you a little bit about the rules for<strong> importing graphics into Media\u00a0Composer<\/strong>. Now, you might think, why would I need to watch a video tutorial\u00a0on importing. That&#8217;s about as simple as it gets, right? Well, you would\u00a0think that, but then again, have you ever seen a graphic that might have\u00a0started off looking like this, and once you&#8217;re finished importing it looks\u00a0more like this? Or a graphic that looks like this, but then looks like this\u00a0after importing it? We&#8217;re getting a lot of unnecessary stretching and\u00a0squeezing, and whether it&#8217;s a photograph or a graphic that you create in\u00a0Photoshop, this can be prevented. If you&#8217;ve ever imported something into\u00a0<strong>Media Composer<\/strong>, you might have just right-clicked and chosen &#8220;import&#8221;, and\u00a0then navigated to the file that you wanted to import and just hit &#8220;open.&#8221;\u00a0But, what I&#8217;m telling you is to pause a little bit, and go to the options\u00a0menu, where we see a lot more that we can choose about how this gets\u00a0brought in, as far as its size, its pixel\/aspect ratio, its color, its\u00a0alpha-channel and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this video tutorial won&#8217;t cover all of these options. In fact, we&#8217;re\u00a0just going to focus on one. But, if you would like to know all of the ins\u00a0and outs of all of these settings within the import setting dialogue box, I\u00a0encourage you to go to PremiumBeat.com and read <strong><a title=\"Demystifying the Avid Import Dialogue Box\" href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/demystifying-the-avid-import-settings-dialog-box-part-1\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Demystifying the Avid\u00a0Import Settings Dialogue Box<\/a><\/strong>, parts one and two. That will go through all\u00a0the nitty-gritty details that concern this process. Those are available to\u00a0you, right there on our blog. What we&#8217;re going to discuss is this point\u00a0here, the image size adjustment and &#8216;image size for current format&#8217;. When\u00a0this is selected, you&#8217;re telling <strong>Media Composer<\/strong> that the graphic or\u00a0photograph that you are importing is sized exactly correctly for <strong>Media\u00a0Composer<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s cancel this out, and talk a little bit about video\u00a0resolution and pixel\/aspect ratio before we launch into that. I have a\u00a0graphic that can help illustrate some of these points. If we look here,\u00a0standard-definition video in <strong>Media Composer<\/strong> is 720 pixels x 486 pixels.<\/p>\n<p>There are two flavors of HD, 720p, which is 1280 x 720, and 1080i, or\u00a01080p, which is 1920 x 1080. Now, there&#8217;s also other flavors of HD like\u00a0Sony&#8217;s XD Cam, Panasonic&#8217;s DVCPro HD, HDV. But we&#8217;re not going to concern\u00a0ourselves with those at this point. Really, we just want to talk about true\u00a0HD. OK. If we look at the shape of the pixels or the <strong>pixel\/aspect ratio\u00a0in Media Composer<\/strong>, in standard-definition video the pixels are non-square.\u00a0In HD video, you&#8217;ve got square pixels. Now, what does this mean? Well, by\u00a0default, graphics created in Photoshop are square pixels. So when you&#8217;re\u00a0sizing graphics for input into <strong>Media Composer<\/strong>, this is important. I&#8217;ll tell\u00a0you, it&#8217;s most important for standard-definition projects, because with HD\u00a0projects it&#8217;s pretty straightforward. You have Photoshop that creates its\u00a0graphics using square pixels. <strong>Media Composer<\/strong> supports square pixels in the\u00a0project, so you just create the graphics just as you see it. A 1280 x 720\u00a0graphic goes into a 720p project. A 1920 x 1080 graphic goes into a 1080i\u00a0or 1080p project.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s take a look at standard-definition. Because <strong>Media Composer<\/strong> has a\u00a0non-square pixel project, you actually have to do a little bit of\u00a0compensation in Photoshop, and create a 648 x 486 pixel graphic, because\u00a0when it imports into this project, the pixels stretch to non-square.\u00a0Therefore, you get the correct result. Let&#8217;s take a look at a couple of\u00a0graphics so that I can show you exactly how this works. Now, this is a 720\u00a0x 486 graphic and a perfect circle inside of it. This is a 648 x 486\u00a0graphic with a perfect circle inside of it. If we go into Media Composer,\u00a0and we import each of those graphics, again under options we&#8217;ve chosen\u00a0&#8220;image size for current format,&#8221; which means that we&#8217;ve consciously and\u00a0correctly sized our graphic for import into <strong>Media Composer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll go ahead and navigate to our two circles, 648 and 720 x 486. Open\u00a0those up. You can see that my 720 x 486 is oblong, and my 648 x 486 is my\u00a0perfect circle. So, in that sense, because I made my graphic 648 x 486,\u00a0when it comes into a non-square pixel <strong>Media Composer<\/strong> project, the pixels\u00a0stretch and I end up with my perfect circle. Whereas, with my graphic that\u00a0is sized the same resolution as my video resolution here, you can see that\u00a0it comes in incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little bit complicated, but you can see that it does make a\u00a0difference. This especially makes a difference on things that you need to\u00a0be perfect, like logos and even human faces. Just so you know, this example\u00a0pertains to a project that is 4 x 3 standard-definition. If instead you&#8217;re\u00a0working with a 16 x 9 standard-definition, you&#8217;ll instead want to import a\u00a0graphic that is 864 x 486 square pixels, so when we open that we again have\u00a0our perfect circle. As you can see, all of these are fairly subtle changes,\u00a0but you can see the difference between a correctly sized graphic and an\u00a0incorrectly sized graphic, both for 16 x 9 and 4 x 3. It does make a\u00a0difference, because when you&#8217;re not dealing with subtleties and you&#8217;re\u00a0dealing with something that is definitely not sized correctly, this can be\u00a0the result. Definitely make an effort to re-size your graphics in\u00a0Photoshop, and re-size them correctly, so that when they come into <strong>Media\u00a0Composer<\/strong> they look good. Now, I will just finish this tutorial by saying\u00a0that there is one more way that you can make your graphics come in\u00a0correctly, and that is by changing the pixel\/aspect ratio within Photoshop,\u00a0before you even import them into <strong>Media Composer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So if I go into Photoshop and I create a new graphic, I&#8217;ll go ahead and\u00a0just call this &#8220;sample.&#8221; I&#8217;m going to size this to be 720 x 486, which is\u00a0the resolution of our video frame. Instead of having square pixels, I&#8217;m\u00a0going to come down on &#8220;advanced&#8221; and change my pixel\/aspect ratio from\u00a0square, and we have a lot of choices here, but in this case I would want to\u00a0choose this one here, DVNTSC. We&#8217;ll go ahead and create a perfect circle,\u00a0which I do by shift dragging. Save that out. We&#8217;ll import it. Again, we\u00a0have a 720 x 486 project, we&#8217;re importing a 720 x 486 graphic here. Now,\u00a0this is a perfect circle because we compensated for the pixel\/aspect ratio\u00a0in Photoshop. Here&#8217;s the other 720 x 486 graphic, and you can see the\u00a0difference. OK. A lot of technical stuff in this tutorial, but it is all\u00a0very important. Just to reiterate all the information contained, I&#8217;ve made\u00a0sure to outline this in the webpage that contains the video, so be sure to\u00a0check that out. 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