Adobe Premier Pro Settings

[Sober]

Hiya Guys, I dont post here all that often, but on the times i have you'v always been helpful

A few years ago I tried to make some trailers for myself and because i didnt plan properly all im left with is a really small quicktime file. Basically i want to amend that now by re-doing them on my faster computer but also i aim to archive things properly this time.

So to test this i have first of all extracted the video and sound elements from a DVD with an aspect ratio of 2:35:1 anamorphic.

This left me with an MPEG file and a .AC3 file. I resaved the ac3 file into WAV.

Using tmpgenc I then merged the video and the audio back together. Using NTSC:16:9 as my settings.

With this .avi file I thougth i was then in a position to edit away.

So I have created an Adobe Premier Pro 1.5 file with 16:9 settings (720x480) which is exactly the settings my file had when I ripped it off the dvd. But when import it into Premier it looks like this:



Now one way around this is to enlarge the video in the right manually using Premier’s drag tool but I don’t want to do this incase I accidently crop it to much or too little.

Now, a way of eliminating this is to have 4:3 as opposed to 16:9 in my premier default settings. But then all this does is look like you’r watching it on a 4:3 tv with the thick black bars, as opposed to the thinner black bars you get when you watch an anamorphic film on a 16:9 tv.

Any ideas why this happens like this?

It seems odd to say the least that you would extract 2:35:1 footage and then when compiling an edit, have 4:3 as your projected image.

Sorry about all the questions but i made the mistake a few years ago of not planning everything properly which meant my work now is only viewable on a really small resolution because i didnt back anything up properly!

[Sober]

ha ha! Iv sorted it. Basically, in order to remedy this you need to export your MPEG as an AVI. But doing so you must export it as 'SQUARE PIXELS'



This will mean it looks exactly like a 2.35:1 anamorphic image would look on the TV with the black bars being the correct size.

If you export it as 16:9 it will double the size of them and look like this...THIS IS INCORRECT



Now create your Premier project, in my case it was 16:9. Now import your footage > RIGHT CLICK > Interpret as 16:9 and it will now fit the correct aspect ratio.

voila!

Other people are having similar problems to this so i hope this is useful for people. If i were videohelp.com i would put this (or email me if you want me to write up a more extensive tutorial) for people to look at.
I can only imagine others have experienced the same problem and because of how mind numbingly frustrating it is, they have probably gave up. Now we know how to work around this.