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Comment on PAL D1/DV Widescreen square pixel settings in After Effects (CS4 vs CS3) by Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:28:30 +0000

Hi Owen,

I tend to build everything using 1050 now, but you’re right, some editing suites really don’t know what to make of it. (I came across the Avid issue while still at the BBC – but don’t know of others of the top of my head).

I would hope 1050 becomes industry standard eventually as it does lead to the best (i.e. non-distorted) results.

My suggestion is still to build at 1050 in After Effects (and thus any Photoshop material also at 1050) – that way you still have the option of dropping the whole thing into a new 1024 comp before the final render. It’s a bit of a cop out, but at least then if you need the extra pixels, you have them.

Or render at 1050 and use a quick After Effects comp to crop to 1024 only if the edit suite can’t handle it.

Sorry, but that’s the best I can suggest!

thanks for posting,

Mike

Comment on Holiday Website design by Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:09:50 +0000

Thanks for that, Basic Website

I have just taken delivery of 2 jQuery books from Amazon, so maybe next time I might investigate the jQuery rounded corners again.

With any luck, rounded corners will be SO last decade before too long.

Comment on Cufón text replacement in Wordpress by Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:05:44 +0000

Hi Leon,
I’m not sure if you’ve changed anything on your blog since you commented here, but I’ve just checked your site in Safari and IE 6, 7, 8 and the font replacement is happening OK by the look of things.

And yes, you can use any old font you like (with all the necessary licensing of course……!)

Comment on Cufón text replacement in Wordpress by Leon

Leon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:19:30 +0000

I have this on my own blog now with wp-cufon but the png images created by it don’t show up in any browser other than Firefox. Your Tolkien site is fine in all of them! How did you manage that?

Comment on Cufón text replacement in Wordpress by Leon

Leon — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:41:33 +0000

So the usual limits on what font you can have on the web don’t apply?

Comment on Holiday Website design by Basic Website

Basic Website — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:23:43 +0000

Mike, I think you did the right thing here. I’ve found myself wrestling with workarounds for IE for hours just to make something look consistent with a standards compliant browser such as FF. Sometimes simplicity is the best approach.
Regards
Vince

Comment on PAL D1/DV Widescreen square pixel settings in After Effects (CS4 vs CS3) by Owen

Owen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:12:55 +0000

Hi Mike,

We just switched back from Adobe Premiere CS4 to Avid Media Composer again. When still working With Premiere, we worked with “1050″ as it was compatible with After Effects CS4. (It all made sense when I first heard about it and now even more with your post…).
I’m curious though, how many other editing suites work with “1050″? I know Avid doesn’t… Will it be an industry standard or does the flatscreen (HD) TV-market have anything to do with it? We Use PS CS4 and AE CS4 and Avid. I guess we just have to work with
“1024″ again… What would you recommend?

Grtz,

Owen

Comment on PAL D1/DV Widescreen square pixel settings in After Effects (CS4 vs CS3) by Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:26:53 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain this! I just switched to CS4 and the new sizes were driving me crazy to say the least. Now i know why wich will make me sleep a lot better.
So again thanks for this!!

Kind regards,

Eddie
NL

Comment on Cufón text replacement in Wordpress by Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:33:39 +0000

I’m sorry Yuri, but the Tolkien Wordpress theme isn’t quite ready for a public release yet, and I may not have the time right now to do any more work on it. If I manage to get in a releasable form any time soon I’ll let you know. But thanks for your interest, and good luck with your site.

Comment on Cufón text replacement in Wordpress by Yuri

Yuri — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:47:35 +0000

HI! Is it possible to download and to use this WP theme? I didn’t find any link! Thanx! =)

Comment on PAL D1/DV Widescreen square pixel settings in After Effects (CS4 vs CS3) by Bob Barlows

Bob Barlows — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:41:01 +0000

I’m not sure my problem qualifies as a “square pixel”. Once or twice a week I have 1, 2 or 3 black rectangles about 1″ wide and 1 1/2″ tall. I have a 37″ 2 year old LCD Vizio TV. Any suggestions?

Comment on PAL D1/DV Widescreen square pixel settings in After Effects (CS4 vs CS3) by Jonathan Clegg

Jonathan Clegg — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:17:43 +0000

Very useful post, thank you.

Comment on PAL D1/DV Widescreen square pixel settings in After Effects (CS4 vs CS3) by Pixel aspect ratio and frame aspect ratio (PARs) « thegraphicexperience

Pixel aspect ratio and frame aspect ratio (PARs) « thegraphicexperience — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:13:32 +0000

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Comment on PAL D1/DV Widescreen square pixel settings in After Effects (CS4 vs CS3) by Axel

Axel — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:39:44 +0000

Thanks for this post – very well explained. cheers, Axel

Comment on Royalty Free Weather Icons by Website design

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