widescreen coming out 4x3

danielwalding

danielwalding

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Hi,

I have just started working on my first major film for school and have done some shooting and editing so far. I am using a fairly basic 1 chip camera from school and choose to shoot in 16x9 mode on the camera. Then I set up a widescreen timeline in premiere and captured the footage and it looks really good in premiere and everything, widescreen and all. But now when I go to export anything compressed or uncompressed out of premiere, and then i go to view it using quicktime or windows media player on the computer, it is in 4x3 size. I am unsure why this is and have checked and played with settings but can't figure this one out. There wasn't an export setting asking 4x3 or 16x9 that i could find and i assumed because it was a widescreen timeline, it would automatically do this?

any help would be much appreciated.

Daniel :)
 
There should be an option to set the aspect ratio in the preset you are rendering out to. You should be able to select 16x9 or 4x3. If not, maybe you need to render out to a different codec that supports widescreen. Go through and check the presets in the Media Encoder and try rendering with Adobe Media Encoder rather than exporting the timeline straight to an AVI file.
 
i figured out that it is still being exported as widescreen (720x576) except in quicktime its only showing up as 506x576, but the properties of the file still have it at 720x576. could this be because im not using quicktime pro do you think. one of the unsupported features of the standard quicktime perhaps? If i went on to encode this quicktime using encore would the video still come out as widescree?
 
As far as I know it's the problem with the players. To go around it use square pixels (aspect ratio 1.0) and calculate the image size accordingly. Exporting to Quicktime or AVI, select Square Pixels (1.0) and set the size to 1024x576 or 720x405 or other as long as you keep x:y ratio 16:9.

Exporting to Microsoft DV AVI just select Widescreen aspect ratio (image size is fixed) and it will look OK in Windows Media Player.

If you export movie to be used back in Premiere Pro, you don't have to go through this resize procedure because aspect ratio will be recognized correctly in the project. In that case just keep original size of 720x576.
 
If you're using P.pro 2.0 your easiest (but not most economical) solution is to export your 16x9 timeline, via "FILE --> EXPORT --> VIDEO" This will make a DV-AVI file.

Make a new composition, in 4x3 mode and import that 16x9 DV-AVI file you exported. Drop it into the timeline and the aspect ratio converstion will happen automatically. Now export it any way you want it (quicktime, mpeg, flv)
 
Yea do what the man above said. If your going for web output just export to Quicktime, choose proper bitrates, codecs, etc. and set the output to Square Pixels and calculate the size. 853x480 is full DV NTSC Widescreen when its Square. Cut it in half and you have a decent size for internet.

-Kyle
 
thanks alot for the help guys, i worked it all out and it looks sweet as now.

just one more question, 853x480 is full DV NTSC widescreen square pixels, would anyone be able to tell me what the same is for PAL? or a good link that has all the conversions and ratios, etc. cheers.
 
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