Margins... most annoyong ever

[liquidsub]

In Adobe Premiere Pro I can't seem to save the video correctly because the ratio is really messed up. Wide screen is vertical instead of horizontal, and I can't even get it the video to go full screen because there are huge black bars on the top bottom left and right.. The picture explains everything:

This is my movie in full screen mode in windows media player. As you see it's not even any bigger. How do I fix this in premiere?

[guns1inger]

Start by getting a better video player for DV. VLC is good (and plays pretty much anything). Until then, Tools->Options. Click on the Performance tab, then the Advanced button. Make sure the Digital Video slider is set to Large. OK your way out and try playing it again.

[thecoalman]

The dark black bars top and bottom are produced by the media player, the same would be true if played on standalone DVD player, they are there because you encoded to 16:9 so that is not part of the problem. 16:9 uses the full resolution of the video and player stretches/squshes to the correct aspect. The light black on the other hand is part on the video. The right and left light black I'm assuming was created when you encoded the video, the light black above and below the video is part of the source.

How to proceed depends on if it's displaying the correct aspect now?

If it's correct what you have is 4:3 video, the widesceen look is created by the black bars that are part of the video top and bottom.

If the aspect is incorrect. I don't have premiere but there should be an option for how it treats the source video, look for stretch to full screen. Most likely the the video you have has the incorrect header and it thinks your importing a 4:3, to maintain the correct aspect it won't stretch it across the whole video.

Hope you understood what I said because I don"t.

[liquidsub]

Never mind I figured it out.
Frame serve the finished movie in Premiere and open the fake .avi with TMPG Xpress and before encoding, crop and resize it until the video is fixed. TMPG Xpress is better cause it's custom so I'm not complaining. Even if the ratio was fixed, I would still use TMPG Xpress as it can encode to .wmv and my mpeg2 encoding expired for premiere.

As to how to fix the actual thing in Premiere is beyond me but I stopped caring.

[edDV]

Looks to me like you had a 4:3 video and encoded 16:9 and got the black left and right borders you asked for.

The dark top and bottom areas are simply player letterboxing. The narrow light black areas top and bottom are the remaining issue.