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16:9 Timeline Into A 4:3 Timeline Problems
This might be a Creative Cloud question, so I’ll post in both.
On a 17″ MacBook Pro with Mavericks and Premiere CC, we’ve taken 1280×1080 speaker in front of green screen footage and edited on a timeline of the same dimensions. After keying we’ve then nested that timeline in a 720×480 timeline and fit the speaker in a template (speaker in upper corner, slides filling the rest).
When trying to compress to a 640×480 Quicktime mp4, all else looks good, but the speaker is squished. It’s as if Premiere didn’t treat the 720×480 timeline as a flattened timeline, but rather needed to go to the 1280×1080 timeline and turn it into 4:3 first, then recomposite the newly squished speaker into the 720×480 timeline, then make a Quicktime.
Is there any way to tell Premiere to not treat the 1280×1080 timeline this way and just turn the 720×480 timeline into a Quicktime? Or is there a better way to do this?
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Hi Mike,
Please post a screen grab of what you’re seeing, will help us to help you. There will be some distortion just going from 720×480 to 640×480, but maybe what you’re seeing is more extreme?
And is the HD source DVCPRO HD? Curious about the 1280×1080 dimensions, not very common.
Just thought of something – right click the nested sequence and choose “Scale to Frame”, see if that helps. You may not have “right-click” option on Mac, but do whatever Mac guys do 😉
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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Thanks Jeff. I wish I could post screen grabs, but it’s proprietary material.
The material is DVCPro HD. It was captured in Final Cut from the camera, hence the 1280×1080 size. It was then given to a Premiere editor.
I’ve determined that what Premiere is doing is compressing both timelines, the 720×480 and the 1280×1080, rather than just the 720×480. That’s why the speaker, who’s in the 1280×1080, looks squished.
So I guess the question is, is there a way to tell Premiere to accept that everything in the 720×480 is good to go and nothing else needs to be processed?
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