Adobe Premier 2: Video has "shrunk" a bit and has black box around it.
by Ty Le
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Nov 4, 2008 at 8:00:33 am
Hi Everyone,
I've been making videos on and off for awhile now, and have never come across this problem until now. When I play my home video in DVD preview, it looks fine. Once I burn it onto a DVD, the picture shrinks a bit and there is now a black box around it.
Am I overlooking a setting or something when I'm about to burn the video to DVD?
Re: Adobe Premier 2: Video has "shrunk" a bit and has black box around it. by mike velte on Nov 4, 2008 at 5:31:22 pm
Eddie, I think the complete box is coming from the Aspect Ratio setting in his DVD player. The other setting would stretch the .9 par pixels and the image.
Re: Adobe Premier 2: Video has "shrunk" a bit and has black box around it. by Ty Le on Nov 5, 2008 at 6:04:48 am
Hey Eddie and Mike,
My AVI clips that were created from Premier's capture on "DV Capture" setting, are 720 x 480. I'm not sure what you mean by project resolution, but in my project settings, its got for frame size 1920 x 1080 -- fields uneditable.
Please see http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=projectsettingsos7.jpg
Please keep in mind that all my other videos, after burned to DVD, had the picture just fine, so I don't think my system specs or any possibly interfering software will be a factor. I really think there's a setting I'm overlooking.
Another strange thing to me is that the preview window on the left pane only partially shows the picture. Maybe you guys can see a mistake in one of my settings?
Re: Adobe Premier 2: Video has "shrunk" a bit and has black box around it. by Jeff Brown on Nov 5, 2008 at 1:37:48 pm
[Ty Le]"My AVI clips that were created from Premier's capture on "DV Capture" setting, are 720 x 480. I'm not sure what you mean by project resolution, but in my project settings, its got for frame size 1920 x 1080"
Do I understand this correctly: You are editing in HD 16:9, but captured DV standard-def, and are outputting in standard def? Is there a reason?
If you a outputting a 16:9 project to DVD, you should check the "widescreen 16:9" box in the Media Encoder output settings. Look at the bottom right area of the export settings.
Re: Adobe Premier 2: Video has "shrunk" a bit and has black box around it. by Eddie Lotter on Nov 5, 2008 at 2:46:47 pm
You're only seeing part of the image because you have the preview set to 100% and your frame size is far bigger than the preview window, and therein lies your problem.
Why are you editing 720x480 in a 1920x1080 project? Naturally you are going to get a black border because the former is much smaller than the latter.
You can scale the 720x480 clip to fill the 1920x1080 frame, and then when you export to 720x480 it will still fill the frame, however all that scaling is so unnecessary.
Re: Adobe Premier 2: Video has "shrunk" a bit and has black box around it. by Jeff Pulera on Nov 5, 2008 at 3:53:48 pm
Hi Ty,
You have created a Premiere project with HD settings to edit your SD footage, that is the issue, trying to edit 720x480 clips in a 1920x1080 project.
Here's the fix - create a NEW project and choose "DV" as the preset, either NTSC or PAL depending on your locale. Also pay attention to "Standard" for 4:3 or "Widescreen" for 16:9.
Now, in the new project with correct settings to match your footage, go to "File > Import" and Import the project file of original project. It will show up as a folder in the project bin - open it and double click on the "Sequence 1" file and this will open the edited timeline you had created before.
From here, you can Export to DVD with proper results. Your video and project frame size settings were mismatched before.
Re: Adobe Premier 2: Video has "shrunk" a bit and has black box around it. by Ty Le on Nov 6, 2008 at 4:38:40 pm
Hello everyone,
First of all thanks for your replies.
Second, I didn't intentionally create my project with HD settings. That was due to my negligence. I usually just open a project, and click click click and then work on it. My bad, and thank you all for pointing it out. I won't make the same mistake again.
Jeff P., I did exactly as you said, and everything worked out fine. You guys sure know your stuff.
