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How to Bring 16:9 footage into 4:3 project w/o blurriness?
I originally shot some video on a Canon XL2 using 16:9 aspect ratio.
I have now shot more footage with 4:3 (by mistake, whooops). When I play 16:9 video in a 4:3 Premiere Pro project (and vice versa, 4:3 video in 16:9 project), the video gets this blurry distortion. The same kind I get in PRemiere Pro whenever I add a video effect to a clip. But when I move through the video (ie, still images), the resolution is fine.
How can I get rid of this distortion? Will the blurriness show up in the actual video? Is there a better way to bring in 16:9 footage into a 4:3 project?
Please help! Thanks.
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Have you rendered previews for the timeline yet? Premiere automatically reduces the resolution in the Monitor when it thinks it can’t handle playing back the content in real time. The blurriness you’re seeing sounds normal, and shouldn’t be visible when the video is rendered out, and should go away when you render previews.
You may be able to improve things by changing the playback settings. Project menu > Project Settings > General > Playback Settings button. Set playback to your desktop only, and set it to use Direct3D.
A faster computer with a better video card could also help.
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I agree with everything Timothy said.
I also would add, are you talking about blurry video on your computer moniter or through a broadcast monitor?
And since this is an XL2, are you talking about 24P 30P, or 60i? All of those will give different looks.
But more than likely it is probably a simple case of not having rendered the section.
Anyway way let us know.
Martin
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Hey guys, thanks for your help.
Well I rendered the all the 16:9 footage within my 4:3 project, but I still get the blurriness in my COMPUTER Monitor. And my computer has decent power – P4 3.2 Ghz, w/ 1 GB of dual channel OCZ RAM, and 256MB Radeon x600 vidcard. I exported a sequence w/ 16:9 footage and 4:3 footage to AVI – and the blurriness was gone. However, a new problem cropped up: the 16:9 displays in its widescreen format, while the 4:3 uses its regular format too – I can’t have the video size changing during my video!
So I still have the blurriness problem, it’s not as big of a deal, since I know it won’t export out, but it does make editing that video a little annoying. Have you guys used both 16:9 and 4:3 footage in a project?
And now I have the new problem of the video size changing with the clip. Arrggh!
I wouldn’t normally bother w/ trying to use this 16:9 footage, but I’ve got a very tight deadline and I can’t reshoot any of it.
Thanks a lot for your help with this.
PS: I shot everything on 24P, both 4:3 and 16:9 footage. I don’t think that has to do with the problem. -
If you captured in 16*9 it will conform to that aspect.
If you right click in the project window on the clip a window comes up with intepret footage. Change this form 16*9 to 4*3. I think that this will do the trick (I hope).
However after that you are going to have to resize the picture using motion as the proportions will need correcting to 4*3 from 16*9.
Regards Laurie Stewart
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FYI, I was able to solve the problem of different video sizes for 16:9 and 4:3 footage by shrinking the 16:9 video width (Motion effect) to 75%. The Interpret Footage function only seemed to change the video size within Premiere Pro and not when the file was exported.
Still blurry though, although it’s not a huge deal since the blurriness doesn’t export.
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