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Hello everyone! And thank you for tuning in to Inside Geek Canada. My name is Evan Thies, and today we will be talking about Photoshop and specifically, how to set up a document in Photoshop, so works correctly with your various video formats and the space you pertain to the pixel aspect ratio. Which basically is the proportions that are many reduces to compress down the pixels in a non-square format and basically it is in my opinion to cheap way of basically taking away quality. It is not really that noticeable but like if you compare the true HD 10Ap signal, 20HDTV, 10ADI signal, it is obviously going to be a big different because of the ratio and that is just how it is. But in photoshop, there is a special tool you can use just the center of your document, so it will work with the very same format. But first you have to know what you obviously working in and it has to be between like NTSC, or PAL, or HDTV, but you have to know a format you are working before we can set up. But I am going to jump in to Photoshop here ,and I am going to start a new document in just show how you would set this up for a couple different formats and then compare them to what the square wants, will look like converted in to non-square.
So now we are on Photoshop and what do you want to do is go command in on the Mac or control it on the PC, the making in the new document and it all put in new document panel and you will see a few options here with tight resolution basic stuff like that. So if you were just to click OK and this one is about 500x500, you will see that it is exactly is 500x500. But say, if you are working on film, or like an NTSC projects, you are going to need something slightly with different because this unless you want to just little do like over graphic. You want something to film the full screen. Unlikely in Photoshop CS3, there is presets for this. So if you go on the preset menu here, go to film and video, you will see right away. It already has a lot on your settings preset here.
So reset for NTSC DV which is fine, depending on what you are working in that might what you need and that is standard in North America right now anyways and you will notice down here that the pixel aspect for it show is 0.9. What that means is basically it is no longer square pixels. It is going to be slightly merged to compared to the--because typically this would be a bit wider, but if you look at this, it is a pretty close square and that is with the 0.9 aspect ratio.
File new again and if I already just put this in square pixels, you will see right here that it is quite a bit longer than the one with 0.9 and that is just how the film interprets it and there is couple other ones here you can use too. If you are dealing with HDV, you can use one of this settings, and it depends on the kind of Kodek you are using, if it is a DVCPRO HD, and it will be 1.33, and if it is true HDV 1080P, it should all maybe square pixels and Photoshop understands that.
So this is basically how you will set it up. You can do it for wide screen, which uses a different pixels aspect ratio all together so you have to be aware this when you are creating something. First you have to look at what format you are using, because if you are using NTSC this will be fine. But if you are using PAL or HDV you cannot use some of this setting, it is just the ratio will be way off. So you have to definitely find at what project settings you need. Go on at Photoshop, set this appropriately for if it is a wide screen and it will just say that it is showing you the preview purposes and it will look a bit funny in Photoshop when you make it, it will look a bit in a pixel in distorted. But that will come together in the video because the video compensate to understand this ratio.
So yeah, that is basically how you would set up a document in Photoshop for using various video projects.
So now I hope you understand a bit more about the pixel aspect ratio and how you would do that in Photoshop for very various video projects and you can email me anytime at evan@insidegeek.ca. I would be happy to take some of your questions. Thanks for watching, and see you online!
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