Squished camera render

[boogiesg]

When I render an orthographic view of a scene it looks just the way I want it to, however, when I render from a camera view my render comes out looking short and fat. I am pretty sure this has to do with the default camera settings, but I can't figure out the right combination of settings to make it look right. I have the panels set up so that only the camera panel is on the screen. Anyone else have this problem?

[goggle]

What default camera setting are you using? Check your pixel aspect ratio in Render Globals. If it's anything other than 1.0 your rendered image will appear distorted somehow.

The Standard NTSC 720x486 setting has a pixel aspect ratio of 0.9 This is necessary because TVs don't have square pixels, they have rectangular ones. Computer monitors however DO have square pixels.

Other settings have other Pixel Aspect Ratios.

Hope this helps.

-James

[boogiesg]

So which camera setting would you recommend to make my rendered still image, or avi come out looking exactly the same as the view in my camera panel? I've tried all the 35mm and I set the pixel aspect ratio to one, but I think there is something else that I'm missing.