Premiere Pro settings with the anamorphic adapter.

[TylerGred]

I just received my anamorphic adapter today. I am loving it so far, but have a few questions. What are the proper settings for Premiere Pro using the anamorphic adapter. I tried importing it in as widescreen, but it was all screwed up. Do I shoot with letterbox on then import it? In Avid, you have to put a matte over the footage, but I don't see anything like that in Premiere Pro. Is there a matte I apply to a video track? So basically, what do I need to do when I start a new project in Premiere Pro that will give me proper widescreen. Thank in advance.

[Neil Rowe]

simply use a widscreen project with a 1.2 pixel anamorphic dv aspect ratio. and then right click on your video files in the project bin, or select then all however you want, and select to interpret footage, and conform them all to the 1.2 pixel aspect ratio so that the program knows to display then like that, so they strecth out and fill the 16:9 window

no you dont shoot letterbox..or do anything else other than what i mention above.

[TylerGred]

Amazing. Thank you sir.

[sriramraghavan]

This does not work for me.
I shot using the anamorphic adapter. the camera settings was in Norm mode 4:3 as suggested. here are the scenarios i tried.

1. I opened a 16:9 premiere pro project. I selected to interpret the footage to D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2) pixel aspect ratio.
This makes it appear in 16:9 on the timeline.
When I render it however, the video is all messed up. It juggles between 4:# and 16:9 a dezen times a second.

2. I opened an Anamorphic project: Anamorphic 2:1 (2.0) Pixel aspect ratio.
I selected to interpret the footage to Anamorphic 2:1 (2.0) Pixel aspect ratio.
The rendered footage appears squeezed and not in 16:9.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance...

Sriram

[khmuse]

This does not work for me.
I shot using the anamorphic adapter. the camera settings was in Norm mode 4:3 as suggested. here are the scenarios i tried.

1. I opened a 16:9 premiere pro project. I selected to interpret the footage to D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2) pixel aspect ratio.
This makes it appear in 16:9 on the timeline.
When I render it however, the video is all messed up. It juggles between 4:# and 16:9 a dezen times a second.

2. I opened an Anamorphic project: Anamorphic 2:1 (2.0) Pixel aspect ratio.
I selected to interpret the footage to Anamorphic 2:1 (2.0) Pixel aspect ratio.
The rendered footage appears squeezed and not in 16:9.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance...

Sriram

You need to conform to the correct PAR for the adapter which is 1.2 not 2:1 (this is for an anamorphic 35mm lens, not the LA7200 adapter). Correct this and you should be fine.

[PrestonH]

When I render it however, the video is all messed up. It juggles between 4:# and 16:9 a dezen times a second.

If you are exporting 24p, 16:9 from Premiere and trying to play the clips with Windows Media Player you will get that kind of behavior. You'll need to export to DVD, tape, or another file format and playback from there (or just the timeline).