Export frame resample (PAL HDV)

[kippard]

I export a frame from Premiere Pro CS3. It's an HDV 1080i 50i project. The project says the dimensions are 1440x1080, and everything looks right in the preview and timeline windows. I export a frame and it's dimensions are reading 1440x1080 in Photoshop, but it is clearly not wide enough. I transform and resample the image to 1920x1080 and that looks right. What's going on here? Why are my Premiere project settings not 1920x1080? Thank you!

[minidv2dvd]

could it be because your camera records at 1440x1080? that would be HDV spec 1080i. it 's a wide pixel format.

[kippard]

Is there a way to export from Premiere with the correct pixel aspect ratio? Is there a way to switch it in Photoshop (permanently, not just as a preview)? And does that mean resampling? Thanks!

[JohnnyMalaria]

Any image editing software can rescale the size of the imported image as needed. For an HDV frame, you need to scale horizontally by 1.3333 and leave the vertical dimension as is. You can probably specify the new scale in pixels, inches, centimeters, percent etc. Easiest is to simply rescale the image pixel dimensions to 1920 x 1080. Which, of course, it what you have been doing!

It will mean resampling but only in the horizontal direction which isn't really an issue. When you display HDV on a widescreen TV etc, the TV is doing the very same thing anyway.