Premier Pro 1.5 - When exporting its stretching the image

[Sober]

Not sure where to post this, so I apologise if its in the wrong forum.

But I am at my wits end with this, im thoroughly peed off

Basically, no matter what I export as in Adobe Premier Pro 1.5 it 'stretches' the image. Allow me to explain:

This is my original ratio footage in Premier. You'l notice its 16:9



Now here are my settings to convert it to Quicktime:



But this is what it looks like:



Notice that its squashed.

If I try a different method and export it as an avi...its squashed again!




Back in the day, when I had Premier 6. I had no problems in exporting files to Quicktime format but with Premier Pro 1.5 I keep on having this problem.

The only way around the issue is to export as 'SQUARE PIXELS 1:1' But this puts black bars on the top and bottom.

There has to be something im doing wrong. If someone could help me I would be grateful

[aedipuss]

you seem to be a bit confused about aspect ratios and pixels. if you export your video as 720x576 it is 4:3 and will fill a normal tv screen with what is in your first pic. in order to be kept as 16x9 and not stretched vertically you need to add black bars top and bottom to fill 720x576 or encode as about 720x400.

[Sober]

ahh, thanks! I have actually tried the other resolution in the past 720x405 but it still didnt work. With your help mate, Iv converted it to square pixels and done this and now it works!

[edDV]

ahh, thanks! I have actually tried the other resolution in the past 720x405 but it still didnt work. With your help mate, Iv converted it to square pixels and done this and now it works!

Works for what? Horizontally squashed is what it is supposed to look like. It is the job of the player to stretch it out.

You need to explain what you intend to do with this file. If you use 720x405 lines, you have cut vertical resolution to 70%. Why do that?

[Sober]

But I intent to export this for the web and so cant afford it to be squashed.

I'l export it like i originally did and copy it to DVD...then see if it plays ok on the TV.

But by exporting it as 720x405 square pixels. It keeps the same aspect ratio and no cropping occurs....I can vouch for that by these screenshots i have here.

[edDV]

But I intent to export this for the web and so cant afford it to be squashed.

I'l export it like i originally did and copy it to DVD...then see if it plays ok on the TV.

But by exporting it as 720x405 square pixels. It keeps the same aspect ratio and no cropping occurs....I can vouch for that by these screenshots i have here.

OK for web but the wrong PAR (pixel aspect ratio) for DVD Mpeg2. I would encode them separately for DVD if a standard DVD is desired. Otherwise you need to vertically scale twice ... 480->405->480.