DVD to AVI using Panasonic DV Codec = Aspect Ratio Problem

[androidm]

Hello.

I'm moving this over from the editing forum as I suspect this is the proper place to ask this question:

I'm ripping a movie from DVD for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, purely for my own amusement not for commercial or other distribution, and I'm converting the .m2v file I've demuxed from the DVD, using VOBEdit, into an .avi that I can open in Premiere.

I've experimented with a Panasonic DV Codec that was recommended to me but I've found that it can only output 720x480 at 0.9 pixel ratio, which badly distorts the original 720x480 1.2 pixel ratio m2v. There are no 'options' for this codec, so I can't tweak it's output in any way and using the "resize" filter in Vob Sub Mod doesn't seem to help much, if at all; if I set it to anything other than 720x480 it gives me an error message.

I noticed that the huffyuv codec, while producing a file that's too many gigs in size to be useful, doesn't suffer this limitation. Is there, perhaps, another codec out there that might be more suitable? Or is there another way to use the Panasonic codec to produce a correct aspect ratio?

-[a]-

[Baldrick]

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