• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Wide Screen DV

  Posted by David Sapadin on October 19, 2009 at 12:24 am

  Hello:

  I use Premier Pro CS2. And I am running into a problem I haven’t seen before. I did a shoot in 16 x 9 (not hi def). I opened a new project and set it at widescreen, then imported the video. It plays back fine on the monitor at 16 x 9. Its 720 x 480 with a pixel size of 1.2, which I believe is what it is supposed to be. (4 x 3 would be .9, right?) When I go to output to AVI, it ends up 4 x 3 with everything squished. Doesn’t seem to matter which Codec I pick. The AVI’s that get created are 4 x 3 instead of 16 x 9…which is a mystery I can’t seem to solve. Any help greatly appreciated.

  Brian Louis replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  David Sapadin

  October 19, 2009 at 12:28 am

  By the way, this is using WINXP if that helps.

  Dave
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  David Sapadin

  October 19, 2009 at 1:04 am

  This is getting more mysterious. I imported the .avi into Encore, and voila, it appears as 16 x 9 like its supposed to. Which means its Windows Media Player, and Quicktime, and Real Player that is squishing the 16 x 9 .avi to 4 x 3. Anyone ever heard of this?

  Also, I did a lower third in After Effects. I created the graphic in Photoshop and it has a perfect circle in it. When I bring the graphic into After Effects (Comp Setting is at 1.2), I interpret footage as 1.2 And the circle is squished on the After Effects monitor!!! Which would be bad enough, but when I save the project and bring it into the Premier project, its FINE!!! No squished circle!! What in the heck is going on here?

  Any explanations cheerfully accepted!!

  Dave
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  Jon Barrie

  October 19, 2009 at 1:04 am

  This is typical SD Anamorphic Widescreen behaviour. Don’t sweat it. What are you using this for on the output end? Web you’ll need to do a square pixel aspect ratio export.
  – Jon Barrie

  Jon Barrie
  aJBprods
  http://www.jonbarrie.net
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  David Sapadin

  October 19, 2009 at 1:09 am

  The output end is going to be DVD. Which seems like it will work fine since everything looks OK in Encore, but I imagine if someone puts the DVD into their computer to watch it instead of a DVD player, its going to be squished. Why is that? I would think Windows Media Player, et. al. would be able to display a 16 x 9 easy enough. It seems to do fine with other videos that I play.

  Thanks again,

  Dave
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  Brian Louis

  October 19, 2009 at 1:57 am

  Media player does square pixels

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