• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Pillarboxing 4:3 material in a 1080 timeline

  Posted by Scott Allen on November 2, 2012 at 9:06 pm

  I have been trying to drop 4:3 video into a 1080 timeline. This is actually 2048 x 1536 video which I first crop some by resizing it in a 2K timeline. Then I copy it and paste it into the 1080 timeline. It will drop in, but I cannot get it to pillarbox the image. Premiere keeps forcing my image into a 16:9 ratio. After searching for the answer before, I did come across the default scale to frame size button, and saw to tick it before I import the footage into the project panel.

  Sigh. Still doesn’t work.

  Any suggestions?

  Thanks,
  Scott Allen
  sa****@********sc.edu

  Scott Allen replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alex Udell

  November 2, 2012 at 9:16 pm

  Hi…

  I’m a little confused….

  1) Ticking the box means it checked right? You probably don’t want it checked as you don’t want things stretched to fit….

  2) You Crop it in a 2k timeline then copy and paste from the 2K timeline? That cropping won’t hold if you simply copy and paste the source clips into another sequence. You could nest the 2k Sequence in the other sequence then scale the nested sequence clip down proportionally in the destination timeline….that should work…

  Alex
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  Scott Allen

  November 6, 2012 at 4:33 pm

  Thanks so much for your help, Alex, sorry I haven’t said so, sooner!

  Originally, I was confused by a workflow that seemed to be working for a colleague in Final Cut. Following your advice, though, I think I’ve got it. I nested the 2K sequence, placed it into the 1080 timeline, then resized / reframed the material on the original nested sequence, which updated itself on the 1080 timeline.

  Thanks again. (Now, back to Mocha in AE to stabilize other pieces…argh.)

  Scott Allen
  sallen@mailbox.sc.edu

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