16:9 letterbox in adobe premiere pro

[Scott]

Unless you want the picture to look squashed, I would suggest using a 16:9 “mask”. I took a frame grab from my camera in 16:9 mode pointed at a white wall. Then in Photoshop I selected and cut out the white. (Make sure that photoshop is set to transparency mode while cutting – the checkerboard pattern should show up). Save this and then import it into Premiere. Once in Premiere drag this still on a video track above your project, stretch it over the entire project and that should do the trick.

The down side to this method is that premiere will need to render the timeline wherever this is done.

Another possibility is drawing 2 black rectangles in the titler and placing this over the project. If you need a guide capture a frame or 2 of 16:9 footage to follow.

Both methods are not the cleanest or fastest way to do it, but they do work.

Scott

[Craig Howard]

The titler contains some preset masks that will do this simply and easily.

If you need to get a 16:9 reference (so you can build one from the masks)google search and there are plenty of them.

Start here maybe:
https://www.sonnyboo.com/downloads/downloads.htm

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)