I have a wish to make a product with a non-standard frame size 1024×400. I have found Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere capable of that but could not find any way in Avid to make a project of that size.
Indeed, Avid only offers standard broadcast frame sizes
Web-Research:
- http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/45/884932
- You can’t create custom project settings in Avid MC. Avid is designed to work with standard film and video formats.
- You can import 1920×817 into Avid. Tell it to “Do not resize smaller images” in the import settings. Then it will be letterboxed within 1920×1080.
- If you’re doing AMA rather than traditional import, choose Bin->Choose Columns, and display the Reformat column, then click it to select “Pillarbox/Letterbox” (rather than the default setting which is Stretch).
- you can still perform whatever you need to do in MC, then export, then crop back to 817.
- e.g. Export a QT Ref, then in QT Pro, export, and set the size to 1920×817, choose Preserve Aspect Ratio, and choose Crop.