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Maintaining aspect ratios after using ‘scale’
Hi everyone,
I’m just having a little problem with maintaining an aspect ratio in clips in which I have increased the scale.
I’m currently editing a wedding video on my new mac (so I’m kind of new to all this) on premiere pro in CS3.
I’ve shot the footage on a HDV camera and decided to export the movie with a 4:3 aspect ratio (letterbox the video) as most the people watching it won’t have widescreen TV’s. (i’ll then burn this file to DVD with Idvd)
It seems everything was going well, but when I playback the 4:3 letterboxed video (exported as a Quicktime), when I come accross certain clip where i increased the scale in the edit, the shot jumps out of being ‘letterboxed’ and fills the screen.
It seems that although I have exported the video as 4:3, ‘scaled’ images somehow override the aspect ratio setting and mess the whole thing up!
Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Help will be really, really appreciated!!!!
(also I’ve tried to export it as an MPEG-2 to solve the problem, because when you are applying the MPEG-2 export settings, the preview window shows the video and it corrects the aspect ratio problem mentioned above) but my computer crashes when I try to render the the timeline to an MPEG-2! is this because you can’t straight convert HDV video to an MPEG-2?
Thanks everyone, hopefully hear from yall soon
Tom
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2 Replies
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Hi Tom,
I’ve actually had similar problems with scaling/positioning when exporting from Premiere. I got around it somehow. If I remember I’ll let you know!
The best advise I can give you is that there’s no need for you to change the 16:9 aspect ratio in Premiere. Most, if not all modern DVD players will do the necessary down-scaling for you. For example, if I import a 16:9 video into Encore, iMovie, Toast etc, then burn it and play it on a 4:3 TV, the video will be played letterboxed with black bars at the top and bottom automatically.
Hope this helps, Mike
Michael Folorunsho
Video Producer/Creative Director
Clicktone Media
Creative Dynamic Video Production -
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the response. I found that if I highlight all the clips in a sequence, right click and select ‘fit to scale size’ it seems to sort it out. Also, this setting I’ve found on the Adobe encoder (if you need it give me a shout) seems to sort out that problem anyway.
Bloody hell though, nothings easy in the world of digital filmmaking! (but it’s worth it)
Thanks again Mike,
Tom
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