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352×480…i’m lost
Please help me!!
I’m creating a video for a friend. He gave me a DVD with footage that he shot, and when I rip it it’s aspect ratio is 352×480…which looks odd.
I want to take that footage and add titles, etc, and re-burn it to DVD.
I grabbed the VBO, converted it to AVI and imported it to PP.
But the aspect ratio is way off. It’s 352×480, but I want it to be the standard 4:3.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks-Jason
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7 Replies
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That’s a DVD that was recorded in a DVD recorder at low quality, cuts the horizontal resolution in half. You’ll have to stretch it, and adding to that DVD compression, it won’t be pretty.
Vince
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Yikes! Thanks Vincent!
Is there any way to ease my pain?
Any suggestions?
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I think converting to AVI was the right thing to do. You’ll now have to stretch it to fit the frame horizontally. Other than that, if it’s a segment under 1 hour, just burn it as 8 MB/s, CBR.
Vince
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OK…a follow-up question…
the avi file is like 30 minutes long, and I will make a number of sequences out of that file…
every time I grab a segment of the avi file and take it from the source monitor to the sequence i would then have to go to the “effects control” tab and scale the clip…
is there a way to scale 30-minute avi file rather than scaling each and every clip that i insert into a sequence. (ie, can i do the scaling function one time on the original avi clip rather than having to do it 100 times to the subclips?)
I’m using PP2.
Thanks again 🙂
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You would have to export again after scaling as uncompressed. I think you could interpret the footage as 2:1, work with that, then nest the final sequence into a new sequence and shrink the new sequence to fit perfectly. You can also copy and paste the motion settings for each clip.
Vince
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You can ask the clips to fit to frame size in the preferences.
It won’t affect the clips already inside a timeline, but every clip added after the setting change will automatically fit to the sequence size for you.
You could set the motion> scale on a clip already edited into a timeline copy that clip, select all clips and paste attributes.
– Jon 🙂 -
I believe that if you access the “interpret footage” setting from right-clicking on the clip in the project (bin) window, all instances of the clip in the project, timeline included, are affected.
Technically, if you had a LOT of editing to do for some reason, I suppose you could set up a project with custom settings where the timeline would actually be set for 352×480 at a 2.0 pixel aspect ratio…but eventually you’d have to render it out as something else anyway.
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