Premiere Pro and post-processing. PLEASE ADVISE!!!

Rick Meyer

Rick Meyer

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Hey, I am going to TRY to keep this short. I just got done writing a convoluted Dvxuser question and a falty laptop computer click and the entire page refreshed. ARRRRGH!!!!

Okay…Photozoom Pro. I am currently trying to use this. I am using Premiere Pro 1.5. I have exported the sequence from Premiere Pro 1.5 as Tiff files…I imported them into Photozoom Pro and changed the settings to 720x640 (as Disjecta suggested). I plan to view this project fully on a widescreen TV and normally on a 4:3 tv (with letterbox).

Though, I am most concerned with altering my letterbox footage (which is 4:3 with black bars on top and front) to TRUE Widescreen. However, when I did a test batch earlier, I brought my letterbox DVX footage (which was freshly rendered from Photozoom Pro) into a Widescreen timeline, my footage made the people in the shot look horizontally stretched (from right to left) and made them look fat. Although, I did interpret the footage as 1.2 Widescreen. Is this the correct workflow??? Or should I NOT interpret footage?

I read through Disjectas ENTIRE Photozoom Pro sticky…I promise. In fact, with distractions today, it took me nearly 4 hours to get through it.

So…to recap…I take the letterbox DVX footage. I export as Tiff from my NLE (in my case, its PPro 1.5). I import into Photozoom Pro and resize to 720 x 640 pixels. I bring this processed footage (which currently looks like/and is a series of TIFF frames) into Adobe Premiere Pro into a 16x9 48Khz Widescreen project??

In theory, should this make my footage look perfectly Widescreen on a 16x9 monitor and letterboxed on a standard 4x3 monitor? This is the desired result!

Or, should my monitor (the monitor window in PPro 1.5) continue to make my images look funny when its because of the aspect ratio and that it will always look funny on a computer monitor but look fine on a normal TV? ...Or wide and fat (when interpreted as Widescreen)?…..and in Interpreting footage…I get no better results…..perhaps its okay to have funny looking footage on my computer monitor if it’s the output to DVD that matters?

So, SHOULD I interpret the footage? If so…to 1.2 Widescreen? And is it normal to look funky on my computer monitor while viewing it through an NLE…only to have it look better on a regular or Widescreen TV???

Thanks in advance for the thoughts gang-

And, thanks for at least reflecting on my technical plight!

Rick
PS So much for keeping it short….ugh!.....
 
I just re-read my question and holy cow if you can understand me. I wrote the question and i dont even understand what i asked. if you have any pointers and have read the question and understand it thanks!
 
I haven't a clue what you are asking but if it's "Should I interpret the resized footage as widescreen" then, yes is the answer.
 
distecta....i sensed your frustration of overwhelming Photozoom Pro questions in your edit...so you were the LAST person I wanted to tag this question with. But thanks for answering.

I played with your stuff last fall and it made a HUGE difference and I was bent sent on using this workflow again. So, I filmed a corporate video in letterbox just for this purpose. I was just confused because the people look very wide and fat after I import in a widescreen project and interpret. But I will take a minute of footage and export to a DVD to see how that looks. That might make the difference!

So thanks!

Rick
 
You should not be seeing that kind of distortion in your NLE. Something is not right. Are you sure you are exporting from Photozoom Pro with the right dimensions? Open up a single frame in Photoshop to confirm this.
 
Yes. The exported frames look excellent. And, they have the correct 720x640 dimensions. I think I just need to play around with my NLE.

Thanks for the input. I will troubleshoot and let you (and whomever else comes across this thread) know.

Rick
 
Okay...I'm back to report that I figured out what my problem was. I am almost too embarrassed to admit it. But alas, this is a learning forum and who knows...maybe someone out there can learn from my stupid oversight.

Here goes: When I was entering in my resizing data...I was using a humongous number of frames (5000). So, the first batch, in someway, somehow reset itself before I clicked RUN. So, I rendered 720X480 footage as 720X480. Hence the funny look in my WIDESCREEN timeline.

So, a word to the wise, be VERY careful when you input your data. Since this program is primarily for STILL images, importing thousands of still images in 1 batch can really tax the program.

But all is well and the footaqe looks fantastic. Thanks again Disjecta for posting this some 3 years ago. Its still a great processing tool and I love it!

Rick
 
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