Custom video size/resolution needed... Had no look in Premiere or FCP

[wheatln2]

Hi there,
I'm looking to create a video stream for a multiple monitor setup, it needs to be somewhere in the region of 2160x405, as we will be dropping individual streams onto it.

Anyway, I have looked in Premiere Pro 2.0 and FCP5, but have had no look getting anything outside of the traditional resolution of 1920x1080 or 720x576 etc

Does anyone know any method to get these custom sizes in a video editing package? We can set them up in After Effects and Flash but would love to get a straight video editing package to handle it.

Any ideas or thoughts are welcome!

[Guiboche]

Well, you can create a 2160x405 project in Premiere Pro. You have to use a custom AVI project though.

Do you just need to create 2160x405 files, or how do you need to deliever it. Because I have no idea how you'd output that.....

[wheatln2]

Hey, thanks for the response. I have since worked out a way of using FCP to create custom sequence sizes too.

The video (which i hope to export or transcode to a SWF) is showing three 16:9 clips (each 720x405 - is this correct?) stuck together side by side. These are going to then be played in full screen in Flash across three different monitors using a TripleHead2Go. It should be quite strange to see it playing but we're hopeful it will work out OK.

So can anyone confirm that 720x405 is a good size for 16:9 playback? We're filming in HDV so its 1920x1080, and so I know in an ideal world we'd be able to have 3 HD screens all playing side by side (so an insane resolution of 1920x1080 - x 3 - so 5760x1080!) would be best but Flash doesn't allow width over 2880 and plus it'd be one hell of a video processor to play that back properly. Incidentally it needs to be played in Flash as there are some interactive elements to the piece whereby the user defines the direction of the narrative.

[Guiboche]

Your numbers sound correct to me. 720x405 is the square pixel size of 16X9 content. And 720x3 = 2160.

[edDV]

I haven't used the latest flash but I'd suspect they are prepared to import standard 1280x720p or 480i/480p, 576i/576p, 1080i or 1080p.

I'd also expect user rolled resolutions are likely create problems. This is because those resolutions have never been tested. Remember we are relying on software engineers who are clueless of non-standard video.

[wheatln2]

I'd also expect user rolled resolutions are likely create problems. This is because those resolutions have never been tested. Remember we are relying on software engineers who are clueless of non-standard video.

Could you elaborate a little on this? I don't quite know what you mean by "user rolled resolutions".

I have brought in 3 4:3 (i think they were 640x480) sequences in before and exported them as the superwide triptych layout and they played fine, so let's hope that the extra width isn't a problem.

I anticipate some problems in encoding the flvs to remain synced and to retain quality but hopefully that won't be too major an issue. And I guess that's of more concern in a Flash programming forum.

[edDV]

I'm just saying standard resolutions are more likely to have been tested. ITU-REC-601, SMPTE-259m/292M, etc.