One more quick question, I promise...

Rick Meyer

Rick Meyer

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When you "interpret footage" that has a 4X3 aspect ratio that needs to be widescreen, and go into the properties of that footage or clip, the Pixel Aspect Ratio says .09 (1.2). Is this the same as when you RE-Render a clip to be widescreen? Because when you RE-Render a clip with a widescreen aspect ratio and bring it back in, it will simply read 1.2 next to aspect ratio? There is no .09.

I just want to make sure that they are the same thing? I am afraid to "interpret footage" unless I know the results are the exact same because interpreting footage is MUCH more efficient than re-rendering clips.

Thanks so much!

Rick
PS Khmuse if YOU answer me, I'll wind up oweing you stout AND a Christmas card...
 
Widescreen PAR is more like 1.42 but 1.2 maybe w/s also

I think:
DV ntsc is .9
DV PAL is 1.067

Are you trying to make 4:3 into widescreen ? What was it shot as ?
 
I am not certain that I fully follow Rick's question, but let me clarify the PAR for various frames and color systems first,

For NTSC

4:3 has a PAR of .9
16:9 has a PAR of 1.2

For PAL

4:3 has a PAR of 1.067
16: has a PAR of 1.422

As for Rick's question, let me tackle what I think you might be asking about.

The reason one would interpret any footage is to inform the NLE (Permiere in this case) about the PAR aspect ratio (assuming that it is unflagged). In the case of footage shot on the DVX, this would need to be done if you were using the anamorphic adapter since the camera would be set to 4:3 (PAR of .9) but the optical properties (based upon using the adapter) are 16:9 (PAR of 1.2).

Rick, are you shooting 4:3, squeeze, letterbox or anamorphic?

What type of time line are you trying to put the footage into?

Don't be afraid of the interpret footage option, it is simply telling the NLE how to handle the footage. The footage remains unchanged unless you save the project out to a new file (export movie). As long as you don't render it out, you can change back and forth without any consequences (after all, it is just a flag telling the NLE what PAR to use).

If I haven't followed your question, please try to clarify your concern.
 
Thanks again Khmuse (and Shooter). In school, I strictly worked with FCP and now have Premiere Pro 1.5 because I prefer the PC and am teaching myself as I go. I plan to tackle a bunch of tutorials in the near future but I am desperately trying to finish my sister's wedding video in two weeks so I can send it to her BEFORE she comes here for Christmas. At this point, I am doubtful that its going to happen but I'm expecting many sleepless nights in order to make it happen.

My footage was shot in SQUEEZE mode at 30fps. Earlier in this project, I was having difficulties rendering my timeline out so it didn't looked squeezed. I wanted a standard Widescreen DVD. However, it wasn't coming out that way. But, instead of re-interpreting the footage, I went ahead and re-rendered EVERY clip I had (this was already edited and probably was a backwards way to do this) and changed the settings for 1.2 or a Widescreen aspect ratio. Then, I brought this clips back in and re-edited the chapter. Holy tedious.

Presently, instead of re-rendering each individual clip, could I simply re-interpret the footage so that I can export it as a Widescreen clip? Khmuse, your suggestion to re-render my footage while making sure the re-compress box was unchecked was a very good one. However, I decided to bite the bullet and re-cut my ENTIRE chapter since the captured footage is the only clean, uncompressed stuff that I have. (I must have been rendering out compressed files for WEEKS). So, I want this to be very clean.

Fortunately, I just now got finished with the re-edit of this chapter. Now, I have to add some transitions, dissolves, etc, then render out the clip. Then import the whole movie to do all of my color corrections (I found this to be the only way to apply two different color correction effects on two adjacent clips without flicker...ass backwards I am sure.)

The reason for this longwinded post is so that you know that I asked about re-interpreting footage because the captured footage I have was captured in a .09 or 4X3 project. But, the entire clip of captured footage has been re-interpreted as 1.2 before I re-edited this. I wanted to make sure this was going to be fine and would allow me to export the newly edited chapter as a widescreen movie? I really didn't want to recapture all over again. I am so sick of this chapter and troubleshooting this piece that my eyes are beginning to bleed.

Thanks!
Rick
PS One more potentially dumb question...The clips in my timeline, or I should say the timeline information ALL pans right or left depending upon where my mouse arrow is. Even when I am not clicking on anything. For example, if I drag my mouse arrow to the left (without clicking on anything) all of the footage in the timeline will spread out and shift towards the right. This is incredibly frustrating and has not happened before. I am sure it's just a matter of a preference setting. But, I can't seem to locate which one. Every time I go up to the PROJECT window, to grab a transition effect, the entire timeline shifts and sometimes pushes the edit points out of sight. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Rick
 
Hmmm. The whole idea of using a NLE is to do non destructive edits, and only render the final project (no or minimal intermediate renders). This keeps the number of passes thorough the rendering process to a minimum and preserves the quality.

Your original, untouched footage as was captured by Premiere is still present (unless you over wrote with an identical file name). All that the editor (Premiere) generates is a set of instructions on how to edit your footage (the project file).

So, since you shot in squeeze, it is assumed that you want to keep everything at 16:9 for the entire project. This requires that you start with a widescreen project and the all your footage has its PAR set to 1.2.

The easiest way to accomplish this is to sort all the files in your project bin by the "Media Type" attribute.

Next click on the first file labeled as "Movie" (this should have an extension of .avi), now hold down the shift key and then scroll down to the last file with an attribute of "Movie" click it.

Now you will have all the .avi files highlighted in your project bin (just to the right of the preview monitor Premiere will show "XX Items Selected").

Now right mouse click on any of the movie icons (looks like a strip of film) and then scroll down to "Interpret Footage" from the drop down box.

The under the options for "Pixel Aspect Ratio" select the "Conform To:" box and then scroll down to "D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2)", finally click on "OK" and now every file in your project bin will be conformed.

When you render your project (Export -> Movie) you also want to be certain that under "Settings" that the "Video" tab has the projects "Pixel Aspect Ratio" also set to "D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2)" just as you have previously done with the projects files. The resultant saved Movie will be an anamorphic .avi file with a PAR of 1.2 and is perfect for making an anamorphic widescreen DVD from.

I'll think about your scroll problem, but for now, with your impending deadline, getting the project finished is likely the first priority.
 
Khmuse-

I know you like stout. I will keep that in mind next time I am in Orange County, Cali. This is a tremendous help.

And yes, you are right. The "scroll problem" is flukey and certainly annoying but wont prevent me from getting the work done. I have got a A LOT to do if I'd like to get this to my sis in time...

Thanks again!
Rick
 
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