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Importing standard images/video into a widescreen project
I have a project with the following settings:
720×480 widescreen 1.2 pixel aspect ratio, 29.97fps.
I want to import some photos I scanned (and some I took with my digital camera). Becasue I know teh project it set to a 1.2 pixel aspect ratio, when I import the photos into Premier, I right-click on the file and click on “interpret footage” and assign the pictures a 1.2 pixel aspect ratio. The problem is when I do this, the images look stretched horizontally when placed into the composition.
Is this what is supposed to happen? Will the image revert to a normal aspect ratio when exported? It just seems weird working on screen with “fat” images!
Here’s a link to a screenshot of just the image imported into a 720×480 1.2 aspect ratio project. The picture was interpreted to a 1.2 aspect ration to match the project settings. As you can see it is stretched significantly horizontally:
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5 Replies
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You should pre-process all square pixel images, for full or widescreen.
For Widescreen…1-Open image in Photoshop, duplicate the layer and delete the background.
2-Set the Canvas size to 864×480 pixels.
3-Set the image size (Uncheck ‘Constrain Proportions’) to 720×480, Resample the image with Bicubic Sharper.
4-Save as PSD.
You can also create an action or a droplet if you have a bunch of images to process.
Once you are back in Premiere you may have to interpret the images as 1.2 PAR, but they will now be correct.
If this thing is ever going to be displayed on a CRT you should also ‘deflicker’ your images.
Deflickerator.zipJust some thoughts
Vince
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If its only a few photo’s just drop them in the timeline (dont touch the par). You might want to rightclick on the photo in the timeline and set scale to framesize, or go to scale in the effects controle and scale the photo’s to your liking.
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Thanks to you both for your help. That fixed my problem, and now I have a new one!
As I stated above, my project settings are as follows: 720×480 widescreen 1.2 pixel aspect ratio, 29.97fps.
OK, so I do a little editing, insert a few pictures, a little video here and there, and then I decide to check the results so far to see what the rendered movie looks like. So I click on EXPORT/MOVIE, and check that the output settings match my project settings and export.
The trouble is, when I play back the rendered footage in a few 3rd party players on the PC, such as VLC or even Windows Media player, the aspect ratio is wrong. It’s as though the players don’t know they are playing a W/S video, and it plays as a standard 4:3 video.
Where am I screwing up?!
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Generally, I’d recommend using square pixels for desktop video.
Not all codecs will handle aspect ratio information. MPEG2, MPEG1, WMV, and many QuickTime codecs will.
Note, to get WMV to use a particular aspect ratio you need to add an ‘Audience’ in the export settings.Try using Export/Adobe Media Encoder or Main Concept MPEG Pro
Download GSpot. It will tell you what aspect ratio data your file is holding.
Also, you might want to try PowerDVD. It’s pretty accurate with previewing video.
Vince
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Thanks for the info Vince. I do intend to have the final footage displayed for TV rather than DT Video.
I’ll check out your links now.
Thanks again.
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