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Canon FS200 clips and Premiere Pro CS4
I’ve grabbed the video files from my dad’s Canon FS200 and wanted to edit them in Premiere Pro CS4. I know the camcorder is standard definition, so I used the DV-NTSC 720×480 preset. However, the footage on the preview screen looks distorted, vertically stretched. Any idea why? Thanks in advance.
Luke
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did you shoot footage in Wide screen mode in the camera, but choose a 4:3 aspect ratio project?
these are both 720 x 480, but with different pixel aspect ratios, make different frame shapes on the screen?
There’s some sort of mismatch there?
Alex
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Try the widescreen preset. 😉
Jon Barrie
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I tried in both Standard and Widescreen, still verically distorted (people are taller.) You’re right, something is mismatched here, and I’ve tried all different settings there are in there. Is it possible the preview screen is not right?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Luke,
Make sure the clip has an interpret of widescreen pixel aspect ratio too.
right click clip in project panel select interpret footage.
set the pixel aspect ratio to dv ntsc widescreen.– Jon Barrie 🙂
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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Hey Jon,
From the “interpret footage” screen, I see “D1/DV NTSC(0.9091)”. That means standard DV, which is the first preset I used in the first place. Something I’m still missing here.
Any other idea? Thanks for all the help so far.
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Premiere is interpreting your footage wrong. The Interpret Footage dialog allows you to change the PAR to 1.2…for use in a Widescreen Sequence preset.
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Hey, thanks Mike. Your solution worked. I did the “conform” to the widescreen and it looks normal now. By doing this, do I lose any quality of the footage? And, how did Premiere happen to “misunderstand” the footage in the first place?
Thank you all,
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Did you capture the footage in the 4:3 project or the widescreen project.
That might be what help PPro determine what pixel aspect ratio to use by default.I suppose that maybe that camera didn’t pass the wide screen flag in the DV stream when you captured. That might be a possibility.
Alex
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