Adobe Premiere Elements Question re: resolution

[tocarla]

Hi, considering buying Premiere Elements since it looks strong enough at its low price point for what I want to do. I have one question tho, which stems from this in the videohelp.com review:


"It is absolutely true that your source media must be 720x480 or the associate PAL resolution. If is isn't, the tool assumes your souces has missing pixels and creates a distorted video with wide black bars on each side. " He goes on to say that analog source material, if imported, runs into these problems.

I was concerned because my original source material was Hi8 analog tapes. What I did was put them all on DVD's via my Panasonic DMR-E50, so now I want to take the video from the DVD's and put them on my computer, then edit them from there. Am I correct in assuming that this will work fine? Because the source now is my DVDs I have already made. Or am I going to get mass distortion etc?

Thanks

[guns1inger]

It should accept them, because you DVD Recorder will have converted them to the correct resolution. My concern with Premiere and it's family are the handling of mpeg source for editing.

[lordsmurf]

720x480 is all it takes.
Your Panasonic (at least some of them) are 704x480, not 720x480

[VideoTechMan]

You also have to remember, Premeire is not a native MPEG editor, you may have to convert the DVD video to an AVI file first.

VTM