How can I author 1.66:1 anamorphic footage?

[Xoanon]

I have a short movie I shot 4:3 non-anamorphic that I then matted slightly into 1.66:1 (small bars). I wish to convert this into an anamorphic MPEG for DVD authoring. How do I do it?

When I shoot 1.78:1 on DV, its a simple case of telling TMPGEnc that it is a 16:9 movie to be played on a 16:9 device and it encodes the movie anamorphically in true ratio. When I do this with the 1.66:1 footage, the footage is not true ratio as it stretches the 1.66:1 frame horizontally to fill the 16:9 ratio of a widescreen TV.

So I opened Premiere 6 and imported the 1.66:1 non-anamorphic AVI. I set the project settings to PAL/Widescreen but click "Maintain aspect ratio" in Premiere. The result I get in the preview monitor is this, which is perfect:



I believe this is known as "pillarboxing" but this is fine, as it maintains the aspect ratio. I then export the timeline as PAL/Widescreen but the movie is just black upon playback.

That screenshot shows what I am after, if I could just get the video to export I would be plain sailing but Im stuck.

Sorry to go on, anyone got any ideas at all please?

Thanks for your time.

[Baldrick]

export to what? avi? mpg?

and you can specify the exact size in tmpgenc under settings->advanced.

[Xoanon]

AVI.

Ive upgraded to Premiere Pro 7 and I dont have the problems I had with v6.

Thanks anyway!