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Anamorphic footage playback at quarter resolution?
I had an odd thing happen to me the week before last and I didn’t have time to investigate if it was expected behavior or not. Hopefully I can explain it properly here so you can tell me.
In the very latest version of Premiere (CC obviously), I had some 960×720 footage. I dragged a clip from it onto the new sequence icon to just have Premiere make a new sequence however it wanted to, since all I wanted to do was play this back to upconvert to 1080 for use in my 1080i sequence. But when it played back, it looked squished into a square, like the anamorphic flag was being ignored. I realized my Program window was set to play back at 1/4 resolution, and when I switched it to full, it played back as expected.
I also dropped this 720 stuff into the 1080 timeline and just increased the scale on it (as a placeholder until I was going to convert it) and it did the same thing in a 1080i square pixel sequence. But when it had a red render bar on top of it, it played back as normal. When it was rendered green, it was be smooshed. Again, 1/4 resolution.
I’ve never seen this happen before, and this was my first thing I worked on after the last major CC update. I thought quarter resolution playback just degraded the quality. Does it also ignore anarmophic stuff? Is this expected behavior?
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This is happening with me as well. I’m using 1080p footage, with a PAR of 1.0, and when I render preview files, and then play at 1/4 resolution, the Program Monitor squeezes everything horizontally. My guess would be that it’s some glitch with how Premiere is reading the MPEG I-Frame codec, which they use for the preview files.
It’s probably best to report it to Adobe: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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