Adobe Premier 2: Video has “shrunk” a bit and has black box around it.

[Mike Velte]

Suspect you chose a Widescreen Project preset and imported 4:3 video into it.

[Eddie Lotter]

Mike, that would cause pillarboxing, not a complete border, but it does appear to be a project size mismatch.

Ty, what is the resolution of your clip and what is the resolution of your project? In other words, please provide these details to help us help you.

Cheers
Eddie

[Mike Velte]

Eddie, I think the complete box is coming from the Aspect Ratio setting in his DVD player. The other setting would stretch the .9 par pixels and the image.

[Eddie Lotter]

Ah yes, if a DVD player is being used then its settings need to be taken into consideration.

I understood from the OP that it was still on the computer when the black border is visible. Hopefully we’ll get more info.

Cheers
Eddie

[Ty Le]

Hey Eddie and Mike,

My AVI clips that were created from Premier’s capture on “DV Capture” setting, are 720 x 480. I’m not sure what you mean by project resolution, but in my project settings, its got for frame size 1920 x 1080 — fields uneditable.
Please see https://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=projectsettingsos7.jpg

Please keep in mind that all my other videos, after burned to DVD, had the picture just fine, so I don’t think my system specs or any possibly interfering software will be a factor. I really think there’s a setting I’m overlooking.

As for how I’m playing the DVD: I’m playing it from my PC. As a reminder, the DVD preview plays the picture just fine.
Please see https://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=previewmv9.jpg

Here are my export settings for output:
https://img48.imageshack.us/my.php?image=exportsettingsoi1.jpg

Another strange thing to me is that the preview window on the left pane only partially shows the picture. Maybe you guys can see a mistake in one of my settings?

Thanks very much guys.

Ty

[Jeff Brown]

[Ty Le] “My AVI clips that were created from Premier’s capture on “DV Capture” setting, are 720 x 480. I’m not sure what you mean by project resolution, but in my project settings, its got for frame size 1920 x 1080″

Do I understand this correctly: You are editing in HD 16:9, but captured DV standard-def, and are outputting in standard def? Is there a reason?

If you a outputting a 16:9 project to DVD, you should check the “widescreen 16:9” box in the Media Encoder output settings. Look at the bottom right area of the export settings.

-jeff

[Eddie Lotter]

You’re only seeing part of the image because you have the preview set to 100% and your frame size is far bigger than the preview window, and therein lies your problem.

Why are you editing 720×480 in a 1920×1080 project? Naturally you are going to get a black border because the former is much smaller than the latter.

You can scale the 720×480 clip to fill the 1920×1080 frame, and then when you export to 720×480 it will still fill the frame, however all that scaling is so unnecessary.

Cheers
Eddie

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Ty,

You have created a Premiere project with HD settings to edit your SD footage, that is the issue, trying to edit 720×480 clips in a 1920×1080 project.

Here’s the fix – create a NEW project and choose “DV” as the preset, either NTSC or PAL depending on your locale. Also pay attention to “Standard” for 4:3 or “Widescreen” for 16:9.

Now, in the new project with correct settings to match your footage, go to “File > Import” and Import the project file of original project. It will show up as a folder in the project bin – open it and double click on the “Sequence 1” file and this will open the edited timeline you had created before.

From here, you can Export to DVD with proper results. Your video and project frame size settings were mismatched before.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Ty Le]

Hello everyone,

First of all thanks for your replies.
Second, I didn’t intentionally create my project with HD settings. That was due to my negligence. I usually just open a project, and click click click and then work on it. My bad, and thank you all for pointing it out. I won’t make the same mistake again.

Jeff P., I did exactly as you said, and everything worked out fine. You guys sure know your stuff.

Thanks again everyone!