Convert anamorphic to square pixels

What type of scripts do you need?

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emkay
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Joined: September 5th, 2013, 8:11 pm

I have many anamorphic QT movies that have been improperly encoded, and can't be re-encoded.
They have the wrong PAR embedded in them.

For example, a movie that should be 2.35:1 stretched comes out as 2.20:1.
I need to convert them to square pixels at the proper stretched size.

I would do this in Compressor or Adobe Media Encoder, but I also need to be able to do minor tweaks to offset hard mattes and vignettes in the prints. AE lets me fiddle with the image before rendering it.

Here are the steps I follow by hand in AE:

-Import QT MOV
-Interpret footage as square pixels (ignoring embedded PAR)
-Create comp from footage
-Calculate actual square pixel dimensions needed using widescreen aspect ratio (1.85, 2.35, 2.39, 2.40, etc)
-Change comp settings to match final dimensions
-Scale MOV layer horizontal to match comp
-Make additional scale adjustments based on individual movie
-Render with square pixels to QT MOV

I guess I'm asking for a script that would work like this:

-I'd import the QT MOV into a project and highlight it;
-I'd enter the desired aspect ratio (like 2.39) into the script's control UI;
-I'd click a button in the script UI to run the script;
-The script would make a widescreen, square pixel comp, interpret the MOV as square pixels and scale it to fit the comp.

Would anyone be so kind as to take this on?

Thanks in advance,

-emkay
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