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Premiere 6.5 Widescreen Export Question
I thought I posted this previously, but it did not seem to have shown up on the forum, so here it is again.
I have Premiere 6.5 Pro using the Pinnacle DV500 system. (I’m a financially challenged hobbyist, not a pro.) I can edit and export the timeline to miniDV tape just fine in the 4:3 aspect ratio and have done so for years. But now I need to export the timeline to tape in widescreen 16:9 mode, and I can’t seem to do it.
Background info:
The clips on the timeline are all either 640X480 (0.9) imports of 3D animation tiff sequences, or 720X480 (0.9) Premiere titles, etc. Exporting the timeline to tape in 4:3 mode works, but doing the same in Premiere’s 16:9 export setting produces “squashed” results. I tried changing the clip’s aspect ratio (tried various combinations of the options available in Premiere) and then export to 16″9, but get the same results. I also tried starting a new project and changing it from the Pinnacle 4:3 project setting to the 16:9 setting and then importing the existing 4:3-version project in its entirety (clips still show up squashed in the Premiere widescreen preview window) and exporting to tape the rendered timeline in the 16:9 mode, but the results still show up squished (maybe even more so). I also tried importing a completely rendered version of the 4:3 project (as exported from Premiere in uncompressed AVI format) into the new 16:9 project and exporting that, but the results are the same.
So, I’m obviously missing something about some Premiere setting somewhere that relates to square versus non-square pixels or something. (Did I mention that I’m not a pro at this?)
Could some one kindly tell me via a simple (non technical) step-by-step, cookbook “widescreen export for dummies” format how to get the results I’m looking for? Please?
Thank you.
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4 Replies
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DV and Standard Definition Widescreen is not actually 16:9 square pixels. So the shape you see (4:3) is correct. The TV is what pushes the squashed (tall skinny) image to the correct width to make a circle look like a circle and not a tall oval. It’s called anamorphic.
Google “anamorphic” for more info.Jon Barrie
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OK. That makes sense. Thank you.
But what I am getting from the methods I mentioned is not a “tall, skinny” output but a fat, broad or flattened-looking one (as it appears on my non-widescreen TV -one of these days I might be able to afford a widescreen model), which leads me to think that the resulting video when viewed on a widescreen TV would result in an even broader, flatter image, and which is why I think I am doing something wrong.
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are you saying that you are exporting a 16:9 movie from a 4:3 project? That could cause problems
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Still seeking help on how to export a 4:3 project timeline to tape in widescreen 16:9 format using Premiere 6.5.
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