Exporting HD to full screen (getting rid of black border)

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Greg,

Make sure that your pixel aspect ratio is set to square.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Greg Longmore]

best result so far was standard and that still didn’t cover it..

[Chris Tompkins]

How about posting your:

Sequence Settings?
Video Specs?
Export Settings?

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Greg Longmore]

Ok I’ll post when I get home in about 4hrs

[Greg Longmore]

Sequence Settings-

Format-MPEG2
Preset- ‘Custom’
Summary- NTSC, 1920×1080,29.97, Quality 4.0, De-Interlaced MPEG, 384kbps, 48khz, 16 bit, Stereo VBR, 1 Pass, Min 4.00, Target 15.00, Max 18.50, mbps
Source- Sequence, Sequence 01, 720×480 (I’M POSITIVE I RECORDED THE FOOTAGE IN 1080p) (0.9091), 29.97 fps, Lower, 00;03;27;22, 48000 Hz, Stereo

Video Specs?

Codec: MainConcept MPEG video, Quality 4, TV Standard: NTSC, Frame Width: 1920 Pixels, Frame Height: 1080, Frame Rate [fps] 29.97, Display Format: Drop Frame, Field Order: None (progressive), Pixel Aspect ratio: Standard 4:3 (0.750), Profile: Main, Level: High, rnder at Maximum Depth (unchecked) Bitrate Encoding; VBR 1 Pass, Minimum Bitrate [Mpbs]: 4, Target Bitrate: 15, Maximum Bitrate 18.5, (GOP settings) M Frames: 3,N frames: 15, Closed GOP Every: 0, Automatic GOP Placement (unchecked)

Export Settings?
Use Maximum Render Quality? (Unchecked, Use Previews (unchecked), Use Frame Blending (unchecked)

[Jon Barrie]

I’m sorry to inform you but the reason you are seeing a small window of video inside a black border is that you are putting an SD timeline, which you worked in, into a HD export.

Effectively you are getting the correct result with the sequence you worked in.

Can you clarify that your material is actually HD and the specs of the clips themselves. Did you shoot tapeless or on HDV tape or similar and ingest?

Also there are some options to get it out to HD from the SD if you are actually stuck with it, but the results will be less than pleasing. Best to know that this options is the last resort.

JB

Jon Barrie
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[Greg Longmore]

Disappointing.. I can verify my shoot settings when I get back home in about 11hrs. I used a DSLR camera (Canon rebel T2i). In the mean time how would I ensure that I’m working in an HD timeline? I’m almost tempted to redo the edit there. If you can, you might as well post that last resort measure so I can consider my options. I really appreciate it thx.

[Stephen Bakopanos]

The easiest solution would be to copy the contents of your SD timeline to a new HD timeline. The best way to ensure the new HD timeline matches your media is to drag a DSLR clip to the “Create New…” button at the bottom of your project window (next to the trash can). Then just delete the clip from the new timeline and paste all the contents from the old timeline into it. If they don’t fill the frame, just select them all and right click and choose “Scale to frame size”.

Hope that helps.

[Greg Longmore]

Thx!..About that frame size I’ve been clicking on it and scaling it down myself so that ‘scale to frame size’ is what I should be doing instead huh..

[Andy Engelkemier]

For the best quality you can allow Premiere to select the timeline for you on opening based on your content. This is handy if some of your content is SD, some is HDV, and some is AVCHD. You’ll want to use the AVCHD timeline in that case to keep the quality of the AVCHD content (the largest of that group).

(don’t include images in this method or your timeline might be huge)

Import all of your videos first. Now grab all of them and drag them to the New Timeline button. Premiere will automatically choose the highest quality timeline for you.

Now you can delete the content from that timeline and use it to make all of your final edits on. I sometimes create a copy of it while it’s blank just in case I need to nest a timeline later. That allows you to skip deleting everything again.