[Mr_steven]

Thanks Steve.

I’ve tried setting a new project to 16:9 and importing the 4:3 footage, if I use the interpret footage options it stretches the image horizontally but not vertically. Importing the 2:35:1 footage which was rendered in 3DS Max fits just nice, with small bars at the top and bottom.

I’m not sure what you meant in your last post about setting the project aspect ratio in premiere, did you mean you can set it to 2:35:1 ? If so how do you do this ?

I’ve tried scaling the 4:3 footage in the 16:9 ratio, but when rendered there is a loss in image quality.

Thanks.

[Mr_steven]

redgum,

I want it in 16:9 as anything looks a lot better than 4:3 (in my humble opinion), especially if you want it to look cinematic.

I just really want to know which is the quickest and easiest solution to this, do I scale the 4:3 image to fit ? if so will I lose quality ? or do I re-import all of the shots into a new project set at 16:9.

All of the shots are 2:35:1 so I know I will have some black bars, but this I don’t mind.

Cheers,

Steven.

[Mr_steven]

The main reason I want it at 16:9 is because when I render it for web, as .mov or .WMV I have a large amount of black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, as it’s 4:3. If it was 16:9 it would look better, (neatly cropped) and be more economical on webspace usage (I think).

[Mr_steven]

Sorry it was a late night last night, I meant 4:3

[Mr_steven]

Thanks Steve,

I’ve tried the interpretation method, and I am still coming up with the same results.

This is really strange, as the finished shot works well. The distortions that occur, (with the blue background)are around the characters/actor edges.

I keyed in a green background to see if it made any difference, and the distortions are less noticable with this colour. I then keyed in a random jpeg image from my hard drive, which consisted of orange tones, and this worked fine too.

[Mr_steven]

Well it’s down to this.

If I render the file as an AVI, wether interlaced or de-interlaced, it’s fine.

If I render the file as a DV AVI, wether interlaced or de-interlaced, it’s a mess.

I still want to know how to fix this though.

[Mr_steven]

Thanks Brian.

What is interpret footage dialogue ?

This is really doing my head in. It plays perfectly as an avi in windows media player, it also plays perfectly in the adobe premiere preview window.

When I render it as a DV AVI it comes out looking awfull.

Would it help if I posted some stills ?

[Mr_steven]

When I am rendering the avi in premiere I am rendering it out to DV AVI format. Still no luck.

[Mr_steven]

I’ve been a scatter brain today, what I did (as mentioned in my previous post) didn’t work.

The avi file plays in Windows media player fine, the file of the actors against the blue background. It’s when I import the footage into Premiere and render it as an avi file again, that the problems occur. This is the only shot that won’t render correctly. What am I doing wrong ?

Please help.

Cheers.

[Mr_steven]

Hmmm, I think I just found a solution.

I changed the background image to a bmp instead of a jpeg, and it’s made a heck of a difference. Is that all I was doing wrong then ?

Cheers.