[Paul Hansen]

Another problem! I have made a little 150 video of a train crossing the screen. The file is 1280/720. I have saved it from Premiere Elements in a format that is not accepted by PI so, I then, using Roxio, convert it to a WMV file. Play it to make sure it is 1280/720. I have already set my preferences and the stage in PI to 1280/720. When I import that little video, PI tells me the stage is not the same size as the video, should the stage change? Yes. The stage changes, I scroll open the window and there is my video, fine with the height but showing black at either side and it is now obviously squeezed so everything is thin. I have also answered NO when asked for the stage size change but the same thing happens.

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[Paul Hansen]

Tried the IntelIYUV codec… It created a jerky video, then I tried the MJPEG Compressor and that seemed to work creating 73.3 MB video

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[Paul Hansen]

First I tried the default codec, the one that rendered 720/480 then I tried the four main concept encoders. I believe I then went to the Full Frame (uncompressed) codec. The project was 300 frames of Christmas Stars and the file size is 791MB. I couldn’t find the codecs you mentioned in the list of render options… BTW what are the Full Frame, Academy, Super 35 and CinemaScope options used for?

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[Paul Hansen]

Just like to ad one more comment on this subject. After rendering my project in MPG-4, I found that Premiere Elements 11 didn’t recognize that codec. Tried several others Premiere didn’t recognize. Finally got one that worked: Full Frame Uncompressed! Just in case others have this problem.

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[Paul Hansen]

Thanks again, Alan… That did the trick. Rendered in MPG2 and it came out the size I wanted!

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[Paul Hansen]

Thanks, Alan… will give it a try!

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[Paul Hansen]

Thanks, Alan… In this process, I have set the preferences to 1280/720 and I have gone to the project settings… used the little down arrow next to the 320-240 box, scrolled down and clicked on 1280/720 which changes the numbers in the two boxes to the left of the 320-240 box as well as changing the 320-240 to 1280-720. I click okay. If I check back in the project settings right hand box has returned to 320-240. I pull open the window as far as I can and then render. When the render is done, I right click on the rendered avi file go to properties/details and for size it says 720-480. Is there an obvious step I am missing here?

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[Paul Hansen]

I tried again. Watched Alan’s tutorial on You Tube. And thought, “Ah, ha! Did I set the stage size?” Set the Stage size to 1280/720 and clicked Okay but, when I looked again it had reverted to 320/240…. I’ll keep trying!

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[Paul Hansen]

Thanks for your reply, Alan. I think I have the most recent version. It is 3.0.4.3 – 03 Dec 2010

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[Paul Hansen]

Well, I have tried everything I know to get PI to render a file at 16/9. Originally I wanted 1920/1080. No way. Now I have decide to try 1280/720. I dragged open the render window so it appeared to be 1280/720. I even imported a 1280/720 black jpg file to make sure the window was open to the correct size. Still, PI rendered 4/3! In the link to how to do it, it is stated: “From the Start menu, find your particleIllusion menu group, and find the pIllusionRender icon.” What Start Menu? Is there something very simple here I am missing???

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