[Lee Lester]

I had the same problem – the issue was that my sequence audio setting was 48000 Hz and my audio track was 44100 Hz – changing the sequence settings to match solved it!

[Lee Lester]

Thanks Steve, that helped tons!

Lee

[Lee Lester]

Thanks Mike for all your advice…it’s been extremely useful!

108050i it is.

Interesting to read about the NTSC film stuff too…will one day hopefully get to play around with different formats and see for myself.

Thanks again,

Lee

[Lee Lester]

Hey, thanks so much for the advice.

It’s tricky- I would imagine it would be played on more flat screens than CRTs, but as it’s for a Police Training Centre there might be some quick movement involved.

Also, we would be using graphics like this – would they come out poorly if rendered in the progressive format?

Thanks again

[Lee Lester]

Hi Ann

Thanks to your suggestion I think I’ve found the problem – the source mpegs are Upper field first, yet premiere is still exporting a lower field first AVI despite coming from an Upper Field first project and being set to export upper field first – any idea why this could be?

Many thanks again…

*EDIT*
OK I’ve finally found a workaround! It’s the exported file format that’s the problem. SO I converted the exported AVI file to m2v+avi using tmpgenc set at upper field first, which retained the field order, then used Toast to burn the files directly without the need for idvd…this then played correctly.

Thanks for your help in getting me to the solution!

[Lee Lester]

[Mike Cohen] “If your goal is to have your standard def DVD play back in 16:9 tv screen without the usual stretching of the image that these sets like to do, then your 16:9 project with 4:3 non-stretched video does indeed make sense. “

This is indeed what I’m trying to do….

here’s a screenshot of my project settings and here’s one of my export settings…

Still not sure what the issue is, but I think I might admit defeat and leave the 4:3 videos stretched…

Thanks very much for all your help anyway, it’s very much appreciated!

Lee

[Lee Lester]

Thanks for your replies…I’ve tried interpret footage, but it makes no difference, and I’m pretty sure I captured in 4:3 as it looks fine on the monitor…

Here’s a screengrab of my Premiere – you can see in the monitor that the black bars are present and correct, so why when I export in 16:9 are they not present in the resulting clip?

Thanks again…

[Lee Lester]

OK previously:

4:3 VHS Footage —>Pinnacle TV Capture Card (set to encode as mpg and in 4:3)—>Imported into and placed on timeline of 16:9 Premiere Project—>Exported as DV (PAL) 16:9 Widescreen—>Imported into 16:9 iDVD project

This displayed the originally 4:3 footage on a widescreen tv correctly as (I believe) the black bars encoded by Premiere were there to stop the footage looking stretched.

Now:

4:3 MiniDV footage—>Captured with Premiere Pro and placed on timeline in a 16:9 project —>Exported as DV (PAL) 16:9 Widescreen—>Imported into 16:9 iDVD project

Displays footage stretched on a 16:9 tv as no black bars are present.

I hope this helps clarify things – subsequent replies may be late as it’s 1.45am here in the UK…

Thanks for your help…