A few question for you video experts

**ampz** · February 12th, 2005, 03:05 PM

Hey, im trying to make a video game movie. I'm using adobe premiere pro 1.5. I recorded my game with a program called fraps the game was played in 1280 x 1024. When i add the raw .avis from the different parts of the game and then add music and a title it seems to be going fine, I was told to export it raw and then use a different program to compress it because i was told adobe isnt very good with compression. When i export the finished file and play it raw it cuts off the top and some of the bottom of the movie, so when i go back and turn safe margins on and try to find out the largest possible way to fit the movie in without it getting cutoff that goes well, the movie i can then see in full form but, the quality sucks because it kinda had to adjust the raw size image. My question today is: Is there a way to just click on something to have my movie fit to the screen 100%? Also any information that may help a 1st time user would be greatly appriciated [img]smile.gif[/img]

**richard.fisher** · February 12th, 2005, 07:15 PM

When you play back your raw avi (of the edited footage) what program do you use? Have you tried playing the the raw footage using premieres own monitor? Is the problem that the raw file you have created does not contain the information you want it to (i.e. the top and bottom of the picture)? If the raw file - when played back with premiere - is not cropped, then is it the program you are using to play back the file causing you problems. I know that if you are working on a widescreen project with premiere, then try and play the avi back with windows media player, it displays it at 1.33:1 not 1.78:1. Also could it be that your player is using a different television standard to the one you chose to edit the footage with. US board members can correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that NTSC and PAL use slightly different resolutions (PAL has more lines, but is transmitted at less Hz).