Letterboxing w/ Adobe Premiere 6.5

[NickW]

I have a question regarding 16:9 and letterboxing in post that hopefully someone can help me with. For the next project I shoot, I'm planning on shooting full 4:3, but composing my shots in 16:9 (will probably use the rubber band idea, thanks!). My question is, if I'm posting with Abode Premiere 6.5, is there a way to add letterbox bars in that program, or do I have to take it into another program like After Effects? I'd rather just leave it all in Premiere if I could. I know there's a few plugins out there that might be able to do it, but I'm a student, so can't really afford to go around buying plugins that may or may not work to my satisfaction. Anything anyone can recommend? Thanks!

[scottchapin]

Not really sure, but you could apply the crop filter. Use the black default and drag the crops down from the top and up from the bottom.

I think you would use 12.5% from the top and bottom for 16:9

[skunker]

Hi Nick,
Cropping like scott says it the standard for APremiere. Thats the way people do it on order to preserve resolution. IF you use the DVX's built-in letterbox tool, you'll lose some resolution.

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