[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Conrad Olson] “I have transcoded an R3D into DNxHD and relinked the media in Premier to this proxy. This half worked but the clip retained the full 5K resolution and the new footage was tiny in the middle of the frame.”

What happens if you make a new sequence by dragging one of these clips to the new item button?

JM

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

This is because the pixels in SD video aren’t square, while the pixels in your image from photoshop are.

Three ways to handle this:

1) As you noted, add more to the sides of the image.

2) When you create the image in photoshop you can set it to non-square pixels. If you hit File > New… there is a twirl down arrow marked “advanced” where you can select the pixel aspect ratio. (select the “D1/ DV PAL (1.09)” option in your particular case) Then you can paste your image content into this new file.

3) Adjust the pixel aspect ratio of the existing image in premiere. Right Click on the file in the project panel and select Modify > Interpret Footage… Under “Pixel aspect ratio” select “conform to…” and change it to D1/ DV PAL.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

What are you planing to do with this H.264 file?

If it’s just for a computer or the web, you can export it at 24fps. If you want to put it on a Blu-Ray it will have to be 23.976.

We can walk you through the process of exporting to ether, but we have to decide which first.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Tim Kolb] “I’d try to export at straight 24 fps, the way you intended.”

That assumes the source video actually is 24fps. The OP may be confused about the frame rate.

Gavin, what camera was this shot on?

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Sorry, I missed the point where you said it was a trial of CS6. That’s why you don’t have those presets.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Pretty sure this is a sign of an activation issue. You might try deactivating and reactivating PP and if that doesn’t work doing a full on reinstall.

JM

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

I think I might know why. Redraw is a wavelet codec, which means it can build up the file to various smaller resolutions rather then doing the full res.

My guess is that since you’re editing in a 1080p timeline, the 4k is only being decoded to 2k and then scaled down to 1080p

The 3K however, can’t be decoded to 1.5k since thats less then 1920×1080 so it has to be decoded to full 3K and then scaled down to 1080p

So Premiere has to do more work with the 3K then the 4K

Thats my guess.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

You now expand and shrink tracks by double clicking on the blank (at least I think its blank, maybe something shows up in certain situations) spot to the right of the controls for that track.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Did you try modifying the aspect ratio of the footage as I suggested? You’ll want to drag the file to a new sequence again after you do that?

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

What kind of DVCPRO HD is this? is it native or wrapped in a quicktime?

Try this. Select all the files in the Project and right click > Modify > Interoperate Footage….

Under “pixel aspect ratio” select: Conform to DVCPRO HD (1.5)