CorelDRAW Graphics Suite feature requests Pixel Aspect Ratio

Pixel Aspect Ratio

When designing for DVD it would be useful to be able to change the pixel aspect ratio to match Designs and Overlays. For example, 720 x 576 is the recognised frame size - but this is stretched to fit 16:9 and 4:3 ratios.

This is a Feature Request

Phil1923 over 8 years ago

Hi Selina,

I think that I need an explanation of your problem.

1. If you create a new image in DRAW or Photoshop, you can make it any size or aspect ratio that you want.
2. If you change the aspect ratio of an old image, the image will be distorted.
3. On my TV, the best fit that I can get is to have one dimension fit the dimension of the TV.

Phil
PS: Will you settle for Canadian English as a compromise.
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Selina over 8 years ago in reply to Phil1923

Hi Phil,

Your Canadian English sounds cute to me (LOL)...

(Display) Aspect Ratio describes the picture frame size ie 800 x 600, and most people read this to mean 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels high. This is correct if the Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) is 1:1 and this works fine on photos, etc for print. But in the wonderful world of Video (among others) the PAR is not 1:1. For Example; the standard PAL system here in the UK has a given frame size of 720 x 576 - but is viewed either on 4:3 screens (Standard) or 16:9 screens (Wide-Screen) therefore the PAR changes depending on how the frame is s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d - hence a wish to see the image as it would appear after stretching! so that circles and squares still look OK when designing.

My current solution is to design in Photoshop - it has this feature!
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David Bevins over 8 years ago

I don't know of an automatic setting for this in X7. When working on the computer, (with square pixels,) you should be able to re-size the graphic so that when it is output to a display using non-square or rectangular pixels it will display properly.

So for example, to get a graphic onto a display with non-square pixels with 4:3 ratio at 720x576 you would design on your computer at 768x576. It would be nice if there was a setting to do this automatically, but I think you can go the manual route and get a good result.
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Selina over 8 years ago in reply to David Bevins

David, thank you for the link to Digital Rebellion
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