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New Equipment, Many Complications (with 16:9 settings…oops!)
Hello Gents,
Firstly, I apologise for not reading through all the forums for my answer before posting (which I normally do), however I’m under immense pressure to meet a deadline and I was encouraged to approach you, the gurus, as my final hope. (no pressure! heh)
I just bought a Sony HDR-FX1 HDV camera to shoot a short film. I then used Premiere PRO 1.5 to edit – this was my first time to use the Pro edition.
My problem is this: I started a project and chose the preset setting “Widescreen 48KHz”. However, I now believe I should have worked in the “Standard” setting because my finished project produces a rendered file that is boxed in on all edges (as in, the image I captured may have actually been 4:3 with bars on the top and bottom – “fake widescreen”).
I wonder if that’s clear…
What I would greatly appreciate is any information on a way, if it is even possible, to re-export my project into a full Widescren picture. I have a feeling the only way would be to recapture the footage in a new project with the correct settings.
I’ve tried numerous things to try and make the finished file not be boxed in on all four edges, but to no avail. This also occurs when I export to tape. Is there any hope?
(p.s. I tried re-importing the finished file into a new 4:3 project and the result is a full frame picture with black bars on top and bottom, but it appears somewhat “grainy”).
Thank you so much for your time and your service, and I appreciate any help you *may* be able to provide!
Cheers!
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3 Replies
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I am not in front of a FX-1 now, but dont think it has a “widescreen” mode like other cameras which is SD. If your shot your video in HDV mode which is of course “wide” then your Project setting preset must be either HDV 1080i-29.97 or HDV 720p-29.97 and your video must be captured with one of these.
If you shot in DV mode then you will need to use a DV project setting.
The format of the captured video will be much different depending on your Project setting.
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Hi Mike,
Thank you for your response.
I shot in HDV but planned to Down Convert to DV because I wasn’t sure what kind of demands that would put on my computer (I’m assured it can handle the HDV work load but due to my deadlines I didn’t want to risk it yet).
So to answer your question, I down converted to DV (which is how wide…?). Having converted down to this format, I figured the preset project settings I had in front of me would be appropriate…maybe they weren’t?
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I dont see a way of exporting your project as SD without first exporting it as either cineform.avi or Windows Media Video.wmv and then import that into a SD project, reducing the scale to 33%. Then it needs to get rendered again as DV or Mpeg for DVD…to many generations.
Maybe someone has a better solution than recapturing as DV.
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