Visualizer Drawing Page JPEG "Squished"
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Topic: Visualizer Drawing Page JPEG "Squished"
Posted By: tonyjmartin
Subject: Visualizer Drawing Page JPEG "Squished"
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 2:40pm
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This is the same problem as in the thread "Select photo on new" located at http://www.lightsonlogan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=276 - http://www.lightsonlogan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=276 I lived with having the JPEG image of my house appear flattened on the visualizer "Draw" page for Halloween, but it's becoming annoying. The JPEG of my house appears normal during playback, but it is much shorter than it should be when viewed on the "Draw" page. This happens when importing a sequence, opening a sequence, or building a sequence from scratch. I've tried numerous resolution JPEG's with both the v1.02 and the new v1.025 of Auorora. (JPEG's have been 640x480, 1024x768, as well as rediculously large and small copies of any JPEG, including the default image of LightsOnLogan's house.) I have also completely uninstalled Aurora, cleared out the registry, and then done clean installs. No go. No matter what playback settings are changed, the height of the image on the "Draw" page is still dramatically shorter than the JPEG that I'm using, though it appears correctly during "Visualizer" playback. Dell Dimension 8300, P4, 2.6GHz, 1.25GB RAM XP Home Edition, SP3, with all updates current. NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB with AGP8X ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 2:56pm
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Is this by chance on a widescreen monitor?
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Posted By: tonyjmartin
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 4:15pm
Nope. Just a standard Dell 17" LCD set to 1280x1024. I did have the second monitor output set to TV for an S-Video output to a TV, and I disabled that. But it didn't have any effect on the problem.  ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 4:34pm
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ok, I get the same stretch affect on my wide screen laptop
------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: tonyjmartin
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 4:51pm
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Okay...here's a new twist. I changed my screen resolution from 1280x1024 to 1280x960, and the JPEG on the "Drawing" page appears nearly normal, but now everything on my monitor is slightly taller. I verified this by making squares in photo/CADD programs and measuring with a ruler (i.e.: a "square" is now 7-1/8"W x 7-3/4"H).  Is the non-geek in me missing some really obvious setting? ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 6:09pm
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What you describe after changing screen resolutions is normal when attempting to use a widescreen resolution (1280x960) on a non-widescreen (4:3) monitor. The screen resolution shouldn't matter to Aurora anyway as it resizes according to the available space in drawing editor and doesn't even look at the screen resolution. The only catch could be with "Twips per Pixel" being off (a Windows thing... don't ask). Are you by any chance running an unusual font size or some other non-standard display setting? ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: kennyz06
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 8:15pm
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I'll chime in here. When I view the house in the editor on my laptop (1920x1200), it looks fine. When I take the file to my work desktop and view it in the editor, it is squished. The work computer runs 1280x1024. So 16x9 is ok, but 4x3 messes it up. I created my file on my laptop first, then moved it to the desktop. When I say editor, I am referring to the draw channel function. Let me know if you need me to test anything else. I'd be glad to help. ------------- http://www.McKinneyChristmas.com - http://www.McKinneyChristmas.com 
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Posted By: tonyjmartin
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 9:47pm
I should have noted that the squashed "Drawing" picture returns when I set my screen resolution back to the original 1280x1024.
Nope. I just checked the desktop properties and today's newly installed NVIDIA Control Panel. Everything is set to XP and/or NVIDIA defaults. Also reset the monitor to factory settings. There is a new setting that I just noticed in the NVIDIA upgrade...allows programs to use different screen settings. I think that I may try assigning 1152x864 to Aurora, as that resolution seems to allow a close to normal view of the "Drawing" picture, though it does still throw off the correct aspect ratio for other programs. Stay tuned.... ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2008 at 11:30am
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I'll run this through some more beta testing after we get some of the more serious stuff sorted out. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: tonyjmartin
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2008 at 1:43pm
Thanks. In the interim I have created a second display profile in the NVIDIA Control Panel that switches from 1280x1024 (the 17" Dell monitor's optimum setting) to 1152x864 when aurora_sequencer.exe is executed. The resolution then switches back to 1280x1024 when I exit Aurora. The JPEG on the "Drawing" page appears normal with any resolution except 1280x1024. The downside is that if I use the entire desktop at 1280x1024 for icon placement, the icons get rearranged when the display switches to 1152x864. Yeah, I know.  ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: tonyjmartin
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2009 at 11:58am
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Bump. Just curious if anyone has discovered a preferred resolution for the Visualizer image file (large, small, narrow, wide, etc.) I have a very wide front yard, so I either need to have a lot of dead space at the top and bottom of my house picture, or I need to crop it to an insane ratio, like 3:1 or 4:1. I noticed that deweycooter has a very wide visualizer image, being as he's lighting multiple houses, so I'm wondering if there's some secret that I'm missing. But... no matter what picture I use, I'm still having the weird squishing/stretching problems when I import an image for the Visualizer. Cheers! ------------- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: kennyz06
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2009 at 9:54am
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I still have this issue. I noticed that whatever resolution you originally make the sequence in, stays with it. If you make it on a widescreen monitor, andmove it to a 4x3, it looks squished.... It must save the resolution somewhere in the file. ------------- http://www.McKinneyChristmas.com - http://www.McKinneyChristmas.com
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