Here's how to make a 4:3 letterbox AVI (unsqueezed) into a 16:9 AVI in Premiere Pro

[Ralph Oshiro]

1. Export your 4:3 letterboxed (unsqueezed) project as a standard DV 4:3 AVI (using the standard pixel aspect ratio for 4:3 DV, which is 0.9).
2. Create a new 24PA widescreen project in Premiere.
3. Import the 4:3 AVI into your bin and place it in the 16:9 timeline.
4. This results in a timeline image that has black bars at top, bottom, and sides.
5. Now, go to: VIDEO EFFECTS/Distort/Transform, and in the effects controls window, set the "Scale Height" = 133, and the "Scale Width" = 133.

[EditPhish]

Glad you got it figured out NBC :happy:

[Bigmagic]

The other way(Premiere Pro) is to export it thru adobe media encoder using windows media and in the audience setting set it for 16X9. It only requires one export and works well. I just took a 244mb clip shot in letterbox and using a bitrate calculator tuned it into a 44mb 16X9 avi file. It was only about a five minute video but I was testing various methods and burning them to dvd and playing them back on my big screen. This method was suggested in another thread and I tried it and it works great.

[Ralph Oshiro]

The other way(Premiere Pro) is to export it thru adobe media encoder using windows media and in the audience setting set it for 16X9. It only requires one export and works well. I just took a 244mb clip shot in letterbox and using a bitrate calculator tuned it into a 44mb 16X9 avi file. It was only about a five minute video but I was testing various methods and burning them to dvd and playing them back on my big screen. This method was suggested in another thread and I tried it and it works great.I can't wait to try it, since that would permit a more direct encode without the recompress in the second DV pass in the method I described above. If I can't figure it out, I may ask you to post a more specific step-by-step, and notate for us, the EXACT names of the relevant menu settings. Thanks!

[Ralph Oshiro]

Well, I did all of the above, and uploaded my .mpg file. On one PC (the one I edited on), the MPEG file plays PERFECTLY in Windows Media Player. The SAME file on another PC plays "skinny" (people are tall and skinny) in Windows Media Player. Huh?

[Ralph Oshiro]

Answer to above post:

Windows Media Player 9: 16:9 AVI file plays "skinny."
Windows Media Player 10: 16:9 AVI file plays correctly.

[g0ldenb0y55]

Awesome job on figuring out how to do that you guys.

Very helpful!