Adobe Premiere export question

[Scottness]

Hi I've got a friend who's shot a short on miniDV with my anamorphic lense so it's all in 2:1, but he can't work out how to export it with the black bars above an below it so the picture is in letterbox format in the middle of the screen and in the right perspective. Getting it into 2:1 in the mopnitor or source window is easy by adjusting the pixel aspect settings - but when that is exported it seems to squish that up into a full 4:3 frame, not the letterboxed one -- there's got to be something obvious here that's missing what is it? (apart from the fact this wasn't shot on Super 8 ;-)

Scot M

[MovieStuff]

Hi, Scott!

This is easy. Right click on the clip and got to video>motion. Within the bottom right hand corner there is an icon representing your target image. There are handles on the 4 corners of that image that you can grap with your cursor and manipulate the size and shape of the image. Just grab the top corners and pull them down a bit and pull the bottom corners up a bit. When you render out the new clip the image will be squeezed top to bottom some and that will put your aspect ratio back to normal.

Also, within some of the Premier effects (I think) there is a vertical squeeze effect, kind of like horizontal barn doors, but it actually squeezes the image. You can apply a percentage to the beginning and end of the squeeze to make it "hold" and not close up all the way. This will do the same thing as the other method.

Roger

[TA152]

Just adding a detail.

On older MAC versions of AP the setup look like this. You will have to uncheck the default 4:3 ratio. Then all other pixel formats are available.

Check:
[img]ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/pictures/ratio.jpg[/img]

R

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ July 27, 2002 06:22 PM: Message edited by: S8 Booster ]</font>

[eddie]

or use the CROP filter.

[Scottness]

Thanks guys - that's fixed it - I don't think the cropping would work thouggh Eddie - it'll lose part of the image rather than squash it

Scot M