Premiere Widescreen squeeze issue.

J

Jutberg

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I searched over the premiere forums and I couldn't seem to find an answer to this, so I'll ask.

I'm shooting 24P standard squeeze footage and editting it in a standard 29.97 widescreen project. The problem is that some of the footage will have black bands on the sides of it as though it were 4:3 footage in a 16:9 timeline, though it isnt 4:3 footage. This generally only happens when it is rendered, and it only happens to a few of the clips, not all of them. This has happened to me before on a 48 hour film shoot using someone elses computer with premiere, so its not a glitch in my program. I figured out a strange way to remedy it, if you scale the clip to 101 percent it seems to fix the problem, but I'd ratehr fix the problem at the source. What am I doing wrong?!

Heres a screengrab of what I mean

wqhatswrong.jpg
 
Im a novice...
But it looks like you may have an "effect", somehow, applied to that footage....i.e. the "camera view" effect. The effect where you can change the camera angles etc. Or maybe the "motion" effect.

Jeff
 
just make sure that the pixel aspect ratio of all your footage is interpreted as 1.2 (16:9). you can look at the current PAR (pixel aspect ratio) of the footage in the project bin if you scroll over to the right under the clips properties. or you can click on the clip in the project bin, and its properties will show up by the thumbnail at the top of the project bin. if they are showing up as 4:3 or .9 PAR. you should right click the clip in the bun and select "interpret footage" then select the pixel aspect of 1.2 and they should show up properly as 16:9. you can select multiple files by either control clicking, or holding shift and selcting groups, then interpret them all at once.
 
unfortunately this was also not the problem. I had assumed it was something to do with the aspect ratio it had been interpretting the footage as, but apparently not. Though I did discover if I layed a widescreen alpha matte with a graphic over top of the footage it converted it back to widescreen. Strange
 
squeeze and widescreen use the same number of pixels 4:3 just uses square pixels and 16:9 uses rectangular pixels. When you mix them in the same timeline you have to scale one. If you bring 16:9 footage into a 4:3 DV project at some point it can forgets its aspect ratio like yours seems to have. Just scale the clip with the black on either side so it fits the whole screen.
 
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