Canon FS200 clips and Premiere Pro CS4

[Alex Udell]

did you shoot footage in Wide screen mode in the camera, but choose a 4:3 aspect ratio project?

these are both 720 x 480, but with different pixel aspect ratios, make different frame shapes on the screen?

There’s some sort of mismatch there?

Alex

[Jon Barrie]

Try the widescreen preset. 😉

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[Luke Ho]

I tried in both Standard and Widescreen, still verically distorted (people are taller.) You’re right, something is mismatched here, and I’ve tried all different settings there are in there. Is it possible the preview screen is not right?

Thanks in advance.

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Luke,

Make sure the clip has an interpret of widescreen pixel aspect ratio too.

right click clip in project panel select interpret footage.
set the pixel aspect ratio to dv ntsc widescreen.

– Jon Barrie 🙂

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[Luke Ho]

Hey Jon,

From the “interpret footage” screen, I see “D1/DV NTSC(0.9091)”. That means standard DV, which is the first preset I used in the first place. Something I’m still missing here.

Any other idea? Thanks for all the help so far.

[Mike Velte]

Premiere is interpreting your footage wrong. The Interpret Footage dialog allows you to change the PAR to 1.2…for use in a Widescreen Sequence preset.

[Luke Ho]

Hey, thanks Mike. Your solution worked. I did the “conform” to the widescreen and it looks normal now. By doing this, do I lose any quality of the footage? And, how did Premiere happen to “misunderstand” the footage in the first place?

Thank you all,
Luke

[Alex Udell]

Did you capture the footage in the 4:3 project or the widescreen project.
That might be what help PPro determine what pixel aspect ratio to use by default.

I suppose that maybe that camera didn’t pass the wide screen flag in the DV stream when you captured. That might be a possibility.

Alex