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Title: Differing valies for "Height" and "Source Height"
Post by: ben@bbarker.co.uk on November 05, 2015, 07:09:24 AM

Hi,
Does anyone know the difference between "Source Image Width/Height" and "Image Width/Height"...?
I have often seen them differ slightly - either in X, Y, or both, when checking the tags on images - but on the face of it I would expect them to be the same...

Title: Re: Differing valies for "Height" and "Source Height"
Post by: Phil Harvey on November 05, 2015, 07:42:29 AM

ImageWidth/ImageHeight should be the actual dimensions of the rendered image. For movies, this may be different from the stored image resolution (the source dimensions).

- Phil

Title: Re: Differing valies for "Height" and "Source Height"
Post by: ben@bbarker.co.uk on November 05, 2015, 04:24:39 PM

So is this a case of the source creating the file with erroneous exif info...or keeping a record of what the original source resolution was prior to any scaling that might have later been applied...?

Title: Re: Differing valies for "Height" and "Source Height"
Post by: Phil Harvey on November 06, 2015, 07:17:34 AM

I think for videos that this is due to the stored image being a different resolution or aspect ratio.

- Phil

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