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Exporting Video – Widescreen
I am new to premiere but have watched about 15 lynda.com videos and I am very comfortable with the interface. I am very knowledgeable with Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and Dreamweaver so I am not totally stupid. 🙂
My project is to take several still “slides” (images created in photoshop) and put them into a movie with some simple fade ins and outs to transition between slides. I need to create one movie in standard 4:3 and another in 16:9 widescreen.
I have two issues.
1. I can’t get the images into premiere without loosing quality. I am using jpg files saved at 72dpi… I can save higher res up to 300 at any pixel dimension needed.
2. I can’t get the images to size correctly on export. I have used multiple export settings but when the image exports I am getting a squished image with black bars on the left and right.
What size images do I need to bring in. I would guess they are different depending on the aspect ratio.
Thanks,
Scott
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2 Replies
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[Scott Poliseno] “What size images do I need to bring in.”
Make the images the same size as your project frame size and pixel aspect ratio if you are not planning on “zooming.” Do it in Photoshop, because PS can scale images better than PPro.
Cheers
Eddie -
You may want to attempt this job in AE. AE’s motion control is much better than PPro’s (unless this was remedied in CS4).
Plus, you can easily make a 16×9 and a 4×3 end product. First make the 16×9 version, then place that 16×9 composition (i.e., timeline) into a 4×3 composition.
As to your image quality issues in PPro, it may be because you aren’t seeing a rendered “preview” in PPro. If you place a still on the timeline, it probably needs rendered to see it’s final quality. Otherwise, you’re looking at a rough preview view.
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James Orlowski
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