Premiere and Pana anamorph.

[russc]

New to the forum (its great) and a recent purchaser of the cam (June) love it.
Starting a project this Fall and I'm shooting 24Advanced with the Pana Anamorphic adapter. My editor and I will produce progressive, widescreen Dvds and the project itself will eventually be geared toward a film out. this forum has been very helpful in getting me clear on how best to proceed for that.
From what I understand so far, the stretch to 16:9 from the squished anamorphic image happens automatically on widescreen monitors, is letterboxed for 4:3 screens by "flags"in certain DVD players. As far as film out the stretch happens during that reverse telecine process

My question is, as I get footage, I want to rough cut some of stuff myself on my home system (Premiere 6.) so that I can show progress to certain clients.
How can I unsquish and letterbox that anamorphic image for a (vhs output) for the regular 4:3 TVs they have. Anyone with premiere settings help is appreciated.

Thanks

RJC

[Norm_Li]

Hi,

I'm going to attempt to answer this question but I can't guarentee anything!

Ok, so you want to display the widescreen shot footage on a regular 4:3 monitor for clients?

In Premiere, edit in the 16:9 project and output your rendered video that you want to show your client. Re-open a Premiere new project in a regular 4:3 project window, import the 16:9 rendered footage, and place it on the timeline. Right-click that file on the timeline and click on "Maintain aspect ratio". That will squish your footage back into the normal 4:3 video with the black bars on top and bottom.

This footage can now be exported/rendered with the aspect ratio of 4:3 with letterbox on a a regular television for your clients.

I hope that helps! (and I hope that works!)

Norm

[Grover]

I'm shooting 24Advanced with the Pana Anamorphic adapter. I want to rough cut some of stuff myself on my *home system (Premiere 6.)

No adobe product can edit 24p Advanced. *EDIT: forgot; AfterEffects can...!

You will either have to shoot in 'regular' 24p, or get new editing software. *It's my understanding there are currently only 4 NLE that can do 24pA. *One is for Mac, the other is $1600. *That leaves Vegas Video and Blade II.

[russc]

Thanks Norm. I got it working!! Before I saw your response.. I opened a 16:9 project in a 4:3 timeline and put the black bars on with a "transform" effect- scaling the height down to 75. That put the black bars on and stretched the image.
I will try your method of just right clicking as well.

Grover just to clarify what I'm doing... you CAN edit 24a footage in any NLE as long as you DON'T need it to be native 24p. The camera does the pulldown, so in Premiere I would be editing in 60i.
As I said, the Premiere stuff is just for me to throw together at home anyhow. To show progress to some folks as I go along. I don't need that to be true 24. When it comes the to the final cut I will do it true 24p (without the pulldown) on another system.
Thanks so much for your input and help guys.

RJC