premiere is exporting postage stamp-size video files, please help

[Steven L. gotz]

What kind of camera are you using and how are you capturing the video? It looks like you are starting out to small to begin with.

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com

[Blast1]

[y2keable] “how i can get premiere to render full screen videos?”

Viewed on what?

[Y2keable]

i’ve been using the AVI files from my Pentax S50 (320×240) which are stored on my hard drive. i import these files to premiere and they edit up nicely. i can play one of these AVI files (straight from the camera) in any of my media players and it fills the screen nicely but once its been imported into premiere then exported, the video seems no larger than the thumbnail. even if i put the media player in full screen mode, id dosen’t get bigger =/

one thing i’ve done since posting my question is import a veriaty of high quality videos into premiere (some at 1280×960) and it still exports a video with the same postage stamp size dimentions.

thanks for the help
Jayson

[Y2keable]

i’m using windows media player and real player to view the exported files

[Harm Millaard]

You ever heard the statement: “Garbage in, garbage out” ? This is a typical example of GIGO. If you input a small frame size in a format not meant for editing, how can you expect to get good results? Accept the fact that this material was NOT meant for editing, at least not with this kind of application. Either get a good DV or HDV camera or a different application.

Harm Millaard

[Y2keable]

thanks Millaard

like i said, i’ve also used footage form a friends vedio collection which is quite good quality and i’m still getting the same problem. as for GIGO, i can understand putting 320×240 in and getting 320×240 out but i’ve even been putting 1280×960 in and still getting a postage stamp out (which looks something like 160×120)

[Craig Howard]

What project preset are you using ?

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

Premiere Pro 2.0

[Y2keable]

i’ve used them all, including lots of different combinations of custom settings but usually go for DV PAL standard 23kHz

regards
Jayson

[Steven L. gotz]

If you put a small 320X240 clip into a 720X576 frame, which is standard for PAL, you will get a postage stamp out. You must either create a custom project with a 320X240 frame size, or you must scale up the video to fit the larger frame before you export back out to 320X240.

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com

[Y2keable]

of corse, its so simple =)

problem solved, many thanks for the help
Jayson