Premiere 6.5 and Photo question

[Diving Mullah]

Hi:

I have this problem, When I port pictures into Premiere 6.5 either with Scan , Digital Camera or Kodak CD, some pictures look OK, but others look as if the Aspec Ratio is screwed up, basically every one looks Wide and Fat.

I have tried jpg, Bmp, Tiff, and GIF files the result is the same, I even resized the pictures as 720 X 534 @ 100 DPI and the result did not change. The pictures on thier own look fine(looking with IrfaView or Photo shop), but when I view it in Premiere or when I make the AVI or DVD format., the pictures look Goofy.

Can any one suggest a solution

remember, not all pictures do that just some.

thanks

Diving Mullah

[northcat_8]

I could not reproduce your issue....but I do not use premiere for importing. You could just drag and drop them. When you connect your camera to your USB port, you should be able to double click "My Computer" and your camera's disc show up as a drive. I guess that's kind of dependant on what kind of interface you have with your camera.

Other than that, it must have something to do with your video settings vs your photo size...most video is 720 x 480....and base resolution in photoshop is 72...it may have something to do with 100 not being divisible by 8 even though mine look fine. Premiere will adjust your pics to fit the video frame.

If you are using PAL settings the frame is 720x576
PAL for quicktime or windows it 768x576

If your pics are imported at the same size as your video frame size, there shouldn't be any problems.

[Diving Mullah]

Thank you responding.

I use the program that was provided by the camera manufacture. Once I import from my folder into Premiere, SOME of the pictures' aspec ratio gets scewed up. You mentioned something about the photo gets adjusted to the video frame size, it there away to tell premiere not to do that. Bsically just have the picture manitain its original frame size?

Thanks

[northcat_8]

well premiere is only going to show the frame size of the video type you are encoding to. So in order to prevent premiere from doing that, you'll have to make the picture the proper frame size before you bring it in.

I did get it to duplicate your problem. I imported a 64x64 image file. Premiere blew it up to fit the 720x480 frame. I couldn't figure out how to get premiere to not do that other than using the motion setting to change the size or using the transform filter to change the size.

You should really make the picture the size of your video frame anyway. That's going to be your highest quality, if you do it in photoshop.

[pijetro]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=210365&highlight=

Hope this helps...

Good luck!!!!!

[northcat_8]

The "lock aspect ratio" check box only maintains the aspect ratio of the original file.

For example, when I place my 64 x 64 pixel on the timeline, Premiere stretches it to 720x480. If I select the "lock aspect ratio" option in the preferences, it changes my pic to be 480x480....maintaining the original square ratio, but not maintaining the original size.

The 720x480 frame is a 3:2 ratio a 720x534 is a 120:89 ratio...720/120 = 6, where as 480/89 = 5.39325...there's going to be some distortion in the vertical direction, I think premiere would pull it to a 133.5:89 to fit it in a 720x480 frame.

I'm always erroring on the safe side and I just make my pics the same size as my composition.