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August 5, 2025
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Custom Pixel Aspect Ratios - Helpful for anamorphic footage

  • August 5, 2025
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Hi, I could really use the ability to set a custom pixel aspect ratio in the Interpret Footage settings, and/or sequence settings. There's a lot of anamorphic lenses coming to market, and some of them don't de-squeeze perfectly with the default options for pixel aspect ratio that we're currently locked into. The Blazar Mantis lenses are an example of this, where 1.33x is close to correct, but to perfectly de-squeeze the footage you need to be able to set a 1.38 pixel aspect ratio. The only work around is to manually scale the clips on the horizontal axis only, but then re-sizing clips gets real funky. 

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
August 5, 2025

Right, they've got a whopping three or so. But a lot of anamorphics for the Big People cameras are not the ones they give. So to me, most of the 'standard' anamorphic lenses are covered by the Premiere options.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participant
August 5, 2025

Premier currently has a list of pixel aspect ratios you can choose from, with most of the common ones covered like 1.33x, 1.5x, and 2.0x, but there's other lenses out there that don't perfectly conform to those ratios and we need a way to type in a custom ratio number. 

R Neil Haugen
Legend
August 5, 2025

Oh yea, we need this! Have for some time, but you're right, there are so many decent anamorphics out now that use all sorts of different ratios, and Premiere has what ... one?

 

Not good enough, really.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...