Problems Exporting Widescreen 16:9

[Funky Monk]

I have a serious problem with rendering a finished movie.

I am using version 1.5.1 of Pro. I am working with Project Settings as in the screenshot below:



I exported a final movie using Export - Movie and selecting Microsoft DV AVI:



In 'Keyframe and Rendering' I selected 'Deinterlace Video Footage'.

All was going fine until I rendered the final AVI file and found that it had come out in 4:3 aspect NOT 16:9 widescreen. As an alternative I tried Adobe Media Encoder and selected MPEG2-DVD. This worked OK as it produced the final file in 16:9 widescreen UNTIL I tried to play it back and found that when I paused the playback the video was jerky and 'stuttering'. At this point I should say that I selected 'Deinterlace Video Footage' in 'Keyframe and Rendering' when exporting to MS DV AVI as this fixed the problem of stuttering on pause. Is there any way of deinterlacing the whole movie and still using the Adobe Media Encoder settings (which does not allow me to deinterlace the final file). I know that I could deinterlace each clip on the timeline in Premiere but that would me applying that to each individual clip, which would take hours to do.

I don't quite know what to do. (I should also say that I am authoring in Encore 1.5.1 but these issues are occuring before I am creating the DVD in Encore).

Help! Please help urgently. I have just started producing wedding videos under contract to another company and this is making me feel really amateurish and I am under pressure.

Many thanks in advance for all your help.

[aedipuss]

DVavi is interlaced only. if you are going to export in that format it needs to stay interlaced. video for dvd should stay interlaced throughout the process including on the dvd. export as interlaced 720x576 25fps .mpv for encore.

DVavi also only comes in one size for pal it's 720x576, the widescreen is just a flag in the file to indicate the aspect ratio of the pixels. not all programs can read the flag so it often displays as 4:3 incorrectly.

if you are going to be doing this pro, you really should update to the latest version of the tools you are using.

[Funky Monk]

Thanks aedipuss. Your advice is very helpful. I decided that it would be better exporting using the MPEG2 DVD setting in Adobe Media Encoder and it works fine now. Displays 16:9 perfectly. Yes, I have just downloaded the CS4 trial of Premiere and it looks a lot better. The problem has been that I was using the Matrox RTX100 card, which is not supported by CS4. I have since removed the card. Maybe it was conlficting with something in my PC set up.

[aedipuss]

you're welcome. i just looked at your comp specs. it's most likely best to stay with the version you have until you update to a more powerful computer, a quad core of 2.4ghz or better is needed for cs4 to get any useful speed out of it.