Aspect Ratio, Still image, Burning Questions

[bencallaway_uk]

Hi, Thanks for looking…

I have a few newbie issues. please help:

I want to produce a DVD, Slide show using Photoshop stills and Premiere 6.5.

I have tried following a tutorial on here with little success.

1) It will need to play on PAL widescreen TV’s and computers.

I have been using a resolution of 720x576 for my images but in Photoshop they are squashed. I just can’t get me head around the whole square pixel thing and what I should be working to in Photoshop and what I should be using in Premiere.

2) I have ignored the widescreen issue for the time being and have been playing with PAL, non widescreen, square pixel, 720x576 set up in Premiere, and importing 720x576px bmp images from Photoshop. Now, everything goes fine setting up the transition, slides and running times. When I export the time line as a movie (AVI) and view this the images seem to move. Like flicker slightly or the pixels seems to jolt about slightly. What is this?

Please help!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

Which version of photoshop ? CS2 has templates for PAL and NTSC video, with and without pixel aspect ratio correction.

Have a read of this http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=367209&seqNum=3

The bottom half might be useful.

And of course, Doom9 is always a good place to look -> http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/aspectratios.htm