Premiere/Media Player 4x3 16x9 Glitch

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Auk14HP

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Hey all,

Just finished shooting a short with the DVX-100. While shooting, we opted for 24pa and to just go ahead and film with the widescreen bars added by the camera. Upon capturing into Premiere Pro, everything looks fine (4x3 image with the black bars on top and bottom cropping it to a widescreen image). When I look at the raw footage using Media Player, however, the image is streched to a 16x9, stretching the picture. I look in the properties page for the clip in Media Player and it says "4x3 actual, 16x9 displayed". Hmm, odd.

When I export a timeline using the footage out of Premiere Pro and play it via Media Player, the footage sorta "freaks out", constantly glitching between that stretched out image from earlier and the true, 4x3 with cropped top and bottom image.

Any idea what I could do to fix this? Thanks.

-Auk
 
It seems to just be a wierd thing that WMP does. I had the problem as well. I went to do some tests with it just now, though, and everything worked fine. Ah the joys of software.

And if I may ask, why is it so important that the thing play back properly in WMP?
 
Well, I'm going to be submitting it to a contest and was hoping to hand in an uncompressed .avi (which I'm assuming would probably be played in media player).

So, if I put this .avi file to DVD, it shouldn't do the glitch thing then?

Thanks for your input so far!

-Auk
 
You mean actually encoding a DVD (MPEG2)? If so, then the problem will disappear. It's just an issue with the way WMP decodes.

EDIT: Which contest are you submitting to? This is the first I've heard about uncompressed .avi's being accepted. Interesting.
 
The Seattle Times is having a 3-minute film contest. You can do Quicktime too, but I'm a big .avi fan.

Well, it seems that by using the "Clip" effect in Premiere (what I usually use to add widescreen bars in post), I've somehow got Media Player to recognize that this isn't a native widescreen project. Problem solved? Just seems weird that a clip effect could get Media Player to knock it the heck off.

Thanks much for the help given!

-Auk
 
Wow. It's neat to see that other formats are beginning to see acceptance (in addition to online only stuff, of course).


Glad you got the problem worked out. Good luck in the contest!
 
i've had this issue as well. Rest assured that the problem is with Windows Media Player and, Windows Media Player ALONE. (Try opening the same file in another program such as VLC media player and it will be displayed properly).

WMP has a problem with reading the correct aspect ratio of 24p avi footage captured via premiere.

Burning to DVD or outputing to tape has no issue, it's just WMP.
 
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