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Can’t Import images correctly
Hello! I really need help with this and I would greatly appreciate any advice.
I’m using Premiere Pro CS3 and trying to import a batch of images that are 960×720. They import fine, but when I drop them on the timeline it stretches the image out beyond the vertical boundary. The source window say the image is still at 960×720 but gives the aspect ratio as 1.333! This would account for the stretch.
I have done extensive fiddling with the project settings including:
1) Changing the editing mode to desktop and manually setting the H and V to 960×720
2) Changing between square pixels (1.0) and (0.9)
3) Turning on and off the default scale to frame size
4) Trying 16:9 and 6:5
5) When I resize the image to 800×600 (which is still the same ratio) and set the project settings to same, it imports fine and fills the window correctly. The source window says “800×600 1.0” I could go in and manually resize all 60 images but this seems ridiculous.
As far as I can tell I need to achieve “960×720 1.0 4:3”.
Any ideas?
Thank you for ANY comments!
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3 Replies
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Right-click in project window, “Interpret Footage”, set Pixel Aspect to 1.0. You should be able to do this for all stills at once.
-jeff
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Hi Mark,
First off, don’t mess with the project settings – you’ll need a video standard for output, such as 720×480.
I just ran a test and believe I have the simple answer – right click the image on the timeline and check “Scale to Frame Size”, works perfect here for an NTSC DV project (720×480) using a 960×720 image.
Note that you can go into Premiere Preferences and set Scale to Frame to ON, that way any media you import will scale automatically. Note this setting does not effect images already in the bin.
Another option would be to just resize the images to 720×480, IrFanView is free and would do it as a batch process, pronto.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
That’s right, or open all up in Adobe Photoshop, open all up in the window.go to Process Multiple Files and change to correct size required off the Premiere Pro timeline, it is that easy. We do 200 -400 at a time this way.
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