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4:3 to 16:9 CS4 project will not export – marriage in trouble – help!
Hi
I’m using CS4, and I’m editing a friend’s wedding video as a favour, clearly quite a big one. He used a pro camerman, who shot in widescreen. I’m so used to filming and editing my own 4:3 footage, that I just forgot, and captured the whole project (several hours) and began editing without even noticing my mistake; all the widescreen footage had been captured as 4:3.
Once I realised what I’d done (halfway through the project), I did a bit of googling and figured there’d be a work around, even if I have to stretch the pixels and lose a bit of quality. But having come to the end of the editing process and tried to export, strange things are happening.
All my footage appears and plays as 4:3 in Windows Explorer and VLC. But in the source monitor in PP it’s widescreen. On all the sequences’ program monitor – except one – it appears as 4:3. But on just one sequence the program monitor shows widescreen. Copying footage from other sequences meant that appeared as widescreen, too. But exporting from there, even though everythign looked right in the encoder, created a 4:3 final film. Opening up a new project, and importing the old project, led to exactly the same result, although I haven’t yet tried to stretch the 4:3 footage (because at the moment, this won’t solve the problem of the sequence that appears to be widescreen but renders as 4:3)
I’m confused as to why one sequence would behave differently; I certainly can’t think of settings that may have been changed.
I have to hand this over to an old friend on Thursday who’s having problems with his marriage – she’s terrifying, actually – and he is going to get in a lot of trouble if his precious DVD is late. Please help if you can…
Thanks for reading
D.
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3 Replies
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Hi Devin,
[Devin Till] ” all the widescreen footage had been captured as 4:3. “
How did you capture the footage, and what type of footage was it?
If you captured DV, you can’t change the capture settings, it will automatically capture widescreen.
[Devin Till] “All my footage appears and plays as 4:3 in Windows Explorer and VLC. But in the source monitor in PP it’s widescreen.”
It will look like it’s squeezed in media players because they don’t understand the pixel aspect ratio. If it is widescreen in your source monitor, then it was captured as widescreen. If some clips don’t appear as widescreen, then right click on that particular clip in the project panel, choose interpret footage and set it to widescreen (1.2),assuming again that you are working with DV.
So, from a sequence point of view, you would be working in a widescreen sequence (copy and paste the clips from old sequences if you have to).
Where is the final export going to be played?
If it’s on a DVD and you have Encore, select the final sequence and choose File > Dynamic Link > Send to Encore.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Make sure when you export to Encore and are going to render to a DVD you follow this:
Right click on your linked footage and click Interpret Footage,
Then change the footage to Conform to 1.21 Pixel Aspect ratio,
Then check your transcode settings. Ensure you transcode to NTSC Widescreen SD.
This will give you the best looking footage going from HD to SD.
Encore will now recognize the Timeline as a 16:9.
Hope this helps,
Dan Herrick
sleepingbeagle studios -
thanks Vince
ended up doing pretty much exactly as you said
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