Preparing Premiere Pro CS5 for editing an iPhone 4 video?

[kingmustard123]

Upon opening Premiere Pro CS5, I create a new Project and keep the default settings, which are:

Video Display Format: Timecode
Audio Display Format: Audio Samples
Capture Format: DV
Video Rendering and Playback: Mercury Playback Engine Software Only (this can not be changed)

Then I create a new Sequence and choose Custom > iPhone 4 as the preset (I didn't create this preset), which is set to:

General

Editing mode: Desktop
Timebase: 24.00fps

Video Settings

Frame size: 1280h 720v (1.4587)
Frame rate: 24.00 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1.4587)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)

Now let's say I drag an iPhone 4 video into this project and add it to the timeline and straight away go to File > Export > Media... then press Export, I get a weird shaped video.

This is how it ends up: http://i54.tinypic.com/5x8w04.jpg
Instead of like this: http://i53.tinypic.com/rsh4ky.jpg

These are the settings of the iPhone 4 video as displayed by KMPlayer (all the iPhone 4 videos are pretty much the same from what I can gather):

General

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt
File size : 47.9 MiB
Duration : 37s 291ms
Overall bit rate : 10.8 Mbps
Writing application : 4.3
Writing library : Apple QuickTime
Model : iPhone 4
©xyz : +52.7095-002.0033/
Make : Apple
com.apple.quicktime.make : Apple
com.apple.quicktime.software : 4.3
com.apple.quicktime.model : iPhone 4

Video #1

Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 37s 270ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 10.7 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Minimum frame rate : 23.077 fps
Maximum frame rate : 25.000 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.485
Stream size : 47.6 MiB (99%)
Title : Core Media Video
colour_primaries : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4, SMPTE RP177
transfer_characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
matrix_coefficients : BT.709-5, BT.1361, IEC 61966-2-4 709, SMPTE RP177

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[epignosis567]

i couldn't have asked this question better myself. this is what i need to know. can anyone help??

[aedipuss]

someone screwed up the encoder setting i would guess. the import is set to 720/576 25i pal it seems and output at 1280/720 ntsc 24p but with the wrong pixel aspect ratio, which should have been 1.0 and somehow the encoder wasn't set to stretch to fill the frame.


that iphone preset looks botched.