Aspect ratio selector when creating a new sequence

[kapitan_]

The crop tool in Adobe Photoshop has the option to set the aspect ratio of cropping. In Premiere Pro, however, no other aspect ratios outside 16:9 are not available. When creating a new sequence, the aspect ratio is actually calculated in the UI, but you can't create a new sequence based on aspect ratio. Most people end up using PNG mattes, but this is not optimal when using non-16:9 open gate material etc.

You could have an aspect ratio dropdown next to frame size fields, with the usual aspect ratios included, along with "Custom".

When you then manually enter a number to either of the frame size fields, the value for other field is calculated automatically. Yes, you can use a calculator, Google or memorize the frame sizes, but a dropdown would make it much more painless.

What you have now:

What would be optimal:

[Shebbe]

I agree that this needs improvement. I personally think a simpler mechanism can be deployed. One that is already present in After Effects is locking the two dimensions so when one is changed the other changes proportionally.

With a frame aspect ratio dropdown menu you need to fill it's list with "industry standard" ratios that possibly need to be maintained and theoretically can become obsolete. It also doesn't provide a mechanism to use certain abitrary ratios with any resolution without precalculating it elsewhere, which the other method does.

note: technically you don't need a calculator or Google because Premiere's input fields are calculators too just like After Effect's. So if you know what ratio you want, like 5:3 with a width of 1800 you can input 1800/5*3 in the field for vertical resolution.