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Premiere RED export issue
Hi,
I am currently cutting a trailer for a clients film. The footage was shot on RED and came to me as PICTURE LOCK at 2048×1080. I know the DCP print should be 2048×858 (I think so if I’m correct anyway)
NOTE: the pic lock footage came to me with some black bar on top and bottom of picture already.
I started a new sequence and just dropped the movie into the timeline and changed the sequence settings to match the picture:
editing mode: custom
timebase: 23.97
frame: 2048×1080
video previews: QT (desktop)
codec pro ress 4444
1919×1011Okay so the issue is when I go to export, If I export w/ sequence settings I get the same black bars at top and bottom, which are not much but they need to go.
Also, I tried manually setting export settings to 2048×858 and it ended up squishing the height and I received black bars all around the export.I mentioned this to the editor and he said this should be auto cropped when printed on the DCP but I’m prepping this for web and I need to find a fix.
I’ve attempted creating a new sequence w/ the 2048×858 as the start settings but that just cropped WAY into the footage on the top and bottom.
Any suggestions or tips? Thanks in advance!
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3 Replies
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1. Put in 2048×1080 timeling
2. In Export Window, set output to DCP’s size 2048×858
3. In the export window, in the upper left of the source tab, hit the crop button and punch in 111 for top and bottom (the difference between 1080 and 858 on top and bottom
And yes, it crops in quite a bit, but this should have been planned for in the whole process if you’re shooting a scope film…. otherwise you should choose a DCP size that more closely matches your film’s aspect ratio.
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Thanks this is very helpful. And I agree it should have been done from the beginning, but unfortunately I’m just the trailer editor and working with what I have. I have never used this crop option before but I see I can manually adjust to chop the black bars this way.
If I manually drag the handles it’s showing 2048×1040 . Do you think this would work for a DCP or will it cause issues? Maybe I could just use this manual crop for vimeo/youtube versions and let them deal w/ the DCP?
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[Adam Eyster] “If I manually drag the handles it’s showing 2048×1040 . Do you think this would work for a DCP or will it cause issues? Maybe I could just use this manual crop for vimeo/youtube versions and let them deal w/ the DCP?”
Just punch in the dimensions manually, 111 for top and bottom. DCP is really only one of about 4-5 different sizes and I wouldn’t trust the lab doing the DCP to do cropping…. that said, I’m surprised the trailer wouldn’t go out MPEG2 or something else, trailers are just loaded onto the projector’s media server with all the pre-movie ads. *shrug
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