HDV frame stills to Photoshop at DVinfo.net

Elmer Lang · March 23rd, 2007, 05:53 PM

When I made stills from frames in FCP before, when I opened them in Photoshop they look fine. But when I open frames from an HDV project in Photoshop they appear squeezed. I can change the Pixel aspect ratio from Square to NTSC Widescreen, but it always gives me a warning that to print with highest quality change it back to square. But then won't they look squeezed? PS I'm nowhere near a printer to check this out.

How best to handle this?

Boyd Ostroff · March 23rd, 2007, 06:18 PM

HDV is anamorphic which means that 1920x1080 gets sqaushed to 1440x1080 before recording to tape. So for use with square pixel screens and printers just resize the image to 1920x1080, or anything else with a 16:9 aspect ratio (like 1440x810, 1280x720, etc).

Larry Vaughn · March 23rd, 2007, 10:30 PM

Boyd, you answered my question also. Thanks.

March 23rd, 2007, 05:53 PM	#1
Elmer Lang Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: NY, NY Posts: 319	HDV frame stills to Photoshop When I made stills from frames in FCP before, when I opened them in Photoshop they look fine. But when I open frames from an HDV project in Photoshop they appear squeezed. I can change the Pixel aspect ratio from Square to NTSC Widescreen, but it always gives me a warning that to print with highest quality change it back to square. But then won't they look squeezed? PS I'm nowhere near a printer to check this out. How best to handle this?

March 23rd, 2007, 10:30 PM	#3
Larry Vaughn Major Player Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Gainesville, FL Posts: 201	squish Boyd, you answered my question also. Thanks.

March 23rd, 2007, 06:18 PM	#2
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,801	HDV is anamorphic which means that 1920x1080 gets sqaushed to 1440x1080 before recording to tape. So for use with square pixel screens and printers just resize the image to 1920x1080, or anything else with a 16:9 aspect ratio (like 1440x810, 1280x720, etc).