Aspect Ratio Calculation Tools

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

To coincide with the Vividcon 2007 Tech Panel of Doom, I developed a number of methods for people to help them with calculating aspect ratios. All of the following methods work in basically the same way computationally, so the only difference is which you prefer to use.

Aspect Ratio Calculators

• Flash calculator


• Excel Spreadsheet


• Google Spreadsheet


• pdf worksheet

To use any of the above you need to know:

1. The size of the clip you want to resize.


2. The source type (PC, NTSC 4:3 etc)


3. The target type (PC, NTSC 4:3 etc)


4. One of the dimensions you are aiming for (width or height)

Example use: resize all of your clips from different sources to have a height of 480 at NTSC 4:3 and then crop any that are wider than 720 (pan and scanning the footage to fit an NTSC dvd frame).

The above tools are in part thanks to trythil and his excellent and actually much more advance AMV Resize Calculator which works fine for me but can be a little complex for intermediate users.

Comments

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Thank you so much.

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god! Bless you Ian. You totally win at vidding!!!

[crazywritinfool.livejournal.com]

And it's an Excel sheet!! *Watches you get all excited*

[crazywritinfool.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thanks!!

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you!!

[jarrow.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. I was always ashamed to admit it, but the AMV Resize Calculator always confused the hell out of me. And Excel spreadsheets really are the way to my heart. Mister, if you're on a mission to make me swoon, well, you had that accomplished a long time ago, but this is nice bonus ;-D

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

You rock like the rockingest thing ever.