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Premier 6.5 Widescreen Export Question
I have Premiere 6.5 using the old Pinnacle DV500 capture card/editing system (can you tell I am a video hobbyist and not a professional?). I do not have any problems capturing or editing with this set up, and have always exported effortlessly to miniDV tape in “standard” (4:3) screen size. But now for the first time I am trying (in vain) to export an existing Premiere project (“Export Timeline to Movie” option) with the intent of getting a wide screen video version.
The existing project’s main settings are my usual Pinnacle “720X480 D1/DV NTSC (0.9)” settings, and all of the files in the project are, as usual, either 640X480 (0.9) computer-generated 3D animation clips or 720X480 (0.9) Premiere title files in size. When I try to export this project using Premiere’s “Export Timeline to Tape” setting and the “D1/DV NTSC Wide Screen 16:9 (1:2)” export option, the resulting video appears squashed down on both a standard and a wide screen monitor.
I also tried starting a new Premiere project with the main Pinnacle settings changed to the “D1/DV NTSC Wide Screen 16:9 (1:2)” option and importing the previous version of the entire Premiere project (which comes into Premiere appearing all squashed down in the wide screen preview window) so I could, hopefully, export the timeline to miniDV tape (instead of “to movie”) using the aforementioned wide screen export option, but the produced miniDV still comes out squished (I think, even more squished). I also tried importing into another new “D1/DV NTSC Wide Screen 16:9 (1:2)” project both miniDV and AVI versions of the existing 4:3 output that had been made in Premiere using the original D1/DV NTSC (0.9) Pinnacle project settings from before. Still squished results.
I played around (blindly) with the “Change Pixel Aspect” Advanced clip settings in all of the aforementioned versions of project configurations, but still can’t figure out how to create the wide screen result.
There’s obviously something I’m ignorant about in regards to trying to create a wide screen project, and rather than the academics of square versus non-square pixels (the Premiere manual just confused me all the more), I could really use a cookbook, step-by-step “wide screen exporting for dummies” primer, as I promised a third-party to get them a wide screen version of one of my existing animations before Christmas. (I know, I’m running a bit late.) Any and all help is appreciated.
Any takers? Need more info from me first?
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This may or may not apply:
On Premiere Pro 1 through 1.5 (and maybe other versions), exporting widescreen avis with the export options set to a .9 aspect ratio setting seems to consistently result in exports with the (correct) 1.2 aspect ratio. IF they are set to 1.2 we get a .9 result. It appears to be backwards. I belive I read somewhere that this is a known bug.
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