Sunday, April 4, 2010

Stroke effect doesn't compensate for...

I'm making graphics for a DVCPRO HD 720p video project, and I just noticed that the strokes are thicker on the vertical lines because of the horizontally squeezed pixel aspect ration. I suspect this calls for a feature request.

Stroke effect doesn't compensate for...

Which stroke command?

Not all of them are going to be able to compensate for non-square pixels.

Stroke effect doesn't compensate for...

The layer effect.

The workaround is to resize the image to 1280x720, rasterize the layer

with the stroke effect, then return the image to 960x720 with the

DVCPRO HD pixel aspect ratio. Or I can just build it as 1280x780 with

square pixels and let Final Cut convert it to anamorphic 960x780, but

in my test it looked a bit more jaggy that way.

We'll see what we can do.

But in general, anything that involves filtering pixels or calculating distances among pixels isn't going to work well for non-square pixels. (or would work so slowly you'll wish it didn't)

Only things that can be rendered (text, selections, custom shapes, etc.) can be distorted for non-square pixels.

Fair enough. Thanks for the info!

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