Premier Project settings

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Jeremy7

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Hi,

I shot at 23.976 fps in 720p using the Hvx200. I want to export the video as a standard def project. Are these the correct Premier project settings?

Frame size: 720 x 480 (0.9)
Pixel Aspect ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9)
Frame Rate: 23.976 fps
Fields: No fields (progressive scan)

It appears that the video is coming out slightly stretched upon export. Any ideas what's wrong?

Thanks,
Jeremy
 
If you want to put the video out to DV tape, you are on the right track. You might just need to right click on the HD source clips and select "interpret fottage" and choose the proper pixel aspect ratio for the clips --- being 1.33 to 1 instead of 0.9 to 1. Perhaps Premiere is seeing them as 0.9 instead.

If you are going to output to anything else, then you would be better off setting up a project with settings that match the source footage and then export and make appropriate changes in Adobe Media Encoder.
 
Thanks John.

I'm exporting to a quicktime file, then burning to dvd with encore. Do I still need to "interpret footage" as 1.33 to 1?

I right clicked on the HD source footage, but I didn't see anything that said 1.33 to 1. It was set to "Use Pixel Aspect Ratio from File: Square Pixels (1.0)". Does that look correct?
 
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Jeremy,

Here is what I think you should do to get the best results.

Start a new project in Premiere and click on the " Custom Settings" tab to make a custom preset rather than loading an exisitng preset.

In the "General" section choose "Desktop" as the editing mode.

Change the Timebase to 23.976 frames/second.

Change the Video Frame Size to 1280x720.

Make sure the Pixel Aspect Ratio is set to "Square" and the "Fields" is set to "No Fields (Progressive)".

Make sure the Audio is set to 48000 Hz.

Now, after you open Premiere, work as you normally would, and when you are ready to export, choose export to Adobe Media Encoder and select MPEG-2 DVD as the format to encode to.

Encode using a High Quality 7mb per second preset ( I would choose NTSC 16x9 Widescreen Progressive) and make sure that the framrate is set at 23.976 to match your footage and that all other settings match your footage.

Now, when you import the footage in Encore, the footage will be ready to burn to DVD and will not even need to be transcoded (re-encoded) again. This way, you will get better quality because the footage will only be compressed one time, from within Premiere, and no more after that. The Audio may end up being transcoded again but the video should be ready to burn as is.

Good luck.

EDIT - I am assuming that you are using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 or later - I am not sure if these options exist completely in older versions of Premiere.
 
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