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size original video vs size exported project
Hi,
I have just finished exporting my very first project with Adobe Premier and written the video_ts and audio_ts files to a DVD. When playing the movie on my DVD-player the image only covers about 75% of the screen. How can I make this bigger?..Watching the original clips on the TV playing from the videocamera it covers the whole screen.
When I created a new project I chose “DV – PAL, Widescreen 48kHz”. I’m from Norway and our TV-system is PAL. Don’t see any options where framesize is bigger than 720×576.
Step-by-step guide highly appreciated 🙂
~Cecilie
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6 Replies
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Is your DVD player setup for a widescreen TV?
Is the original footage 4:3 or widescreen?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi,
The TV I watched the original clip on directly from the camera is an old 4:3 screen. And it covers the whole screen. When I tried playing the DVD on the same screen, the format is the same but about 25% smaller.
Taking the DVD home playing it on my widescreen TV, the format on the converted video seems to me to be 16:9. The only problem is still that the video is 25% smaller than the original video on the videotape.
I assume when I created a new project in Adobe Premier selecting DV-PAL etc that Premier Pro shrunk the size of the original file down to 750×576.
How can I make the project screen-size bigger, and in that case,- what should the values be so to not loose the quality of the video?
~Cecilie
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Extra info: I don’t know how many different versions of videotapes exist, but looking at the images on this Wiki-page, they look exactly the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_video_format
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The only way to make a 4:3 project fit a 16:9 frame is to work inside a widescreen project in Premiere and to blow the footage up to fit the frame. You will lose some quality in the process.
You could otherwise work in a 4:3 project, and export as 4:3.
It will look fullscreen on a 4:3 TV and have bars on the sides on a widescreen TV (that’s the way I would do it).
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Hi,
I still don’t understand though how the original film covers the whole screen and the final project in P-Pro covers 25% less of the screen..
I ran one of the clips through a program called GSpot (tip from another thread on this Forum) which reads the videofile to be 720×576. Shouldn’t the final project which then also apparently measures 720×576 pixels cover the screen equally?…
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This has to do with different Pixel aspect ratios. A widescreen project has the same frame size, the pixels are displayed differently. I would recommend reading the following article.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/pixel_madness.php
The good news is that issue mostly goes away with HD which “mostly” deals with square pixels (at least at export time).
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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