Anamorphic plates/pixel aspect ratio

[tobkum]

Heya!

I'm curious if supporting non-square pixel aspect ratios is planned. I come across that issue quite often when working with footage shot on anamorphic lenses - with different pixel aspect ratios of 1.6:1, 1.8:1 or 2:1. It would be great to have a way of loading & displaying those in a desqueezed way, without destroying the metadata when saving them out again for further use in compositing applications.

Any insights on that?

PS: I'm not looking for a workaround like transforming the image manually etc. - I'd love to have a native way of dealing with that :)

[Old Bruce]

With Anamorphic lenses the pixels remain square, the image is squished*. You need to physically stretch the pixels so they are wider and then Rasterize the result.

* Actual real life technical science word. [Really, I am telling the truth. emoticon]

[tobkum]

Yes. I know that. What I'm asking is that it would be nice to be able to open exr files with a baked in aspect ratio correctly (displayed unsqueezed in Affinity) and re-saving them without stretching them myself and therefore causing problems or requiring additional steps in the pipeline. 

[Old Bruce]

4 hours ago, tobkum said:

... requiring additional steps in the pipeline.

Really depends on what the "pipeline" is. You may not need to stretch the image horizontally if it is simply going to be returned to somewhere that requires a squished image.

[NotMyFault]

This is a valid feature request, there were older questions in the past.

currently as of V2.2, there is no direct support for PAR (pixel aspect ratio)