Widescreen files from AE into Premiere

[Steven L. gotz]

You should use 720X480 with a 1.2 pixel aspect ratio.

Steven

https://www.stevengotz.com

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks Seven,

Changing the pixel aspect ratio may be a problem, as this is an animation and it’s all done in square pixels from PhotoShop. Am I correct in thinking that by changing the pixel aspect ratio in Premiere it will distort the image?

Thanks again for your help!
-Cathy

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks Steven,

Changing the pixel aspect ratio may be a problem, as this is an animation and it’s all done in square pixels from PhotoShop. Am I correct in thinking that by changing the pixel aspect ratio in Premiere it will distort the image? Perhaps I should do some more experiments!

Thanks again for your help!
-Cathy

[Cathy Ralph]

ooops! sorry about that! I only meant to post once but I mispelled your name and wanted to correct it.

I just saw that there is a 16:9 preset in Photoshop – so if I create the artwork in that at 720×480 and then bring it into Premiere it might just work!

Thanks again!

[Cathy Ralph]

Nope – that didn’t work … *sigh*

[Solagratia77]

When you create new project, Set it to DESKTOP editing mode
then you can make your own custom resolutions.
You don’t have to choose from the presets.

I am not sure how you want to incorporate PremierePro into your
pipeline but here is how we do:

1) CG/Animations coming from 3D APP rendered in 1280 x 720 @ 24FPS
2) Compositing done in AFX (in 1280 x 720 @ 24FPS )
3) When compositing is done QT MOV is generated (Animation codec with no compression 1280 x 720 @ 24fps / square pixel)
4) Create a new PRJ in PremierePro res:1280×720 pixel ratio:1.0 @ 24FPS
5) Amazingly PremierePro lets me edit these HD clips in realtime with no slowing down what so ever (on a Dual-Dualcore Opteron system with Raptor Drive and 4Gb Ram) even with 14 tracks stereo audio.. I don’t see any slowing down.
6) Then when all the editing is done we render the timeline @ 1280×720/square pixel/24fps (This file becomes our Master)
7) bring this back into After Effects do 3:2 pulldown if it going to NTSC and letterbox it and so on.

hope it makes sense…

-J
SolaGratia

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks for the info – what I’m doing is much simpler than that – but I’m not getting consistant aspect ratios from 3 programs. At this point I think the problem may be AE and not Premiere, so I posted over at that forum.

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[Brett Howe]

You should be able to use a widescreen preset, and when you import your footage, right click – interpret footage – square pixels!

Thats it!

Good luck

[Cathy Ralph]

Thanks! Someone on the AE forum found my problem, it was a toggle switch for the composition’s PAR. But what you’ve just told me will also help me bring in footage from ToonBoom later. So thanks again!
-Cathy

[Steven L. gotz]

I am glad you got it worked out. As soon as I saw your problem with After Effects I was going to tell you about the button, but that is the great thing about the COW, there is always someone around to help out.

Steven

https://www.stevengotz.com