Intro created in Flash to Adobe Premiere Pro

[video_guy]

Hello everyone,

I'm hoping that someone can help me out with this as its driving me crazy trying to figure it out. Basically I've created a flash intro in Flash MX 2004 and am trying to bring it into Premiere Pro 1.5 while retaining the scale of the movie. Now here's the problem - I've created the flash intro at 720 x480 pixels and have exported using pretty much all the methods - to AVI, Quicktime, JPG/PNG/BMP Sequence, etc. and tried to bring it into Premiere. But every time I import it for some odd reason Premiere squeezes the horizontal width of the intro and so it's not the same size as the exported movie from Flash. I have to scale up the intro to 110% (horizontally) to make it look pretty much like the original movie. I've also tried converting the SWF file to AVI but Premiere still does the same thing. I'm editing in 720x480 and so in theory the 720x480 flash intro should be just fine, but it's not.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[pijetro]

What's your project setting in Premiere??
Go to the flash footage in the project bin, right click>interperate footage>Square pixels..

Good luck!!!

[Cornucopia]

That's because 720x480 for Premiere (DV, DVD settings) is Non-square pixels.
Flash is PC/Web-based, and so expects to use Square pixels.
Your setup of 720x480 canvas is faulty if you're using square pixels. You should either use 640x480, 800x600, 720x540, or some other similarly 4:3 aspect ratio'd size that expects square pixels.
Premiere knows that what you're bringing in is square pixels (actually it assumes everything is square pixels, unless like DV it has a flag explicitly stating that it isn't).
You can fool it by doing what pietro suggested (actually the opposite--non-square pixels), but then objects on your canvas won't be of appropriate aspect ratio anymore.

Scott

[video_guy]

Thank you both! pijetro for the fix, it looks great now, and Cornucopia for the explanation of the pixels of DV video. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks again.