NoodleMaps
26th June 2005, 20:47
Please help. Got a project due tomorrow and I'm at my wits end now. Let me explain the situation and hopefully someone can understand my insane way of thinking and help sort this out for me. ;)
I made a project in Premiere. First I made a matte in Photoshop that placed black 60 pixels on the top of the frame and 60 pixels on the bottom of the frame. Placed that in premiere. Made myself a nice 16x9 matte. Edited my project. Moving my video to fit within the bars to make a nice widescreeen matte. When I finished editing the project 4 weeks later, I exproted the project as a 4x3 (720x480) Microsoft DV avi file. I then imported the project into VirtualDub and used Null transform to remove 60 pixels from the top and bottom of the frame. Then resized the image to 720x320. I also used an unsharp marsk with a value of 3, just incase. And in in some test tried the MSU filters. That will come in later. Any way. I then frame served this to CCE. I set it up for a 5 pass encode. setting it to 16x9. When it is done. I get a 16x9 image, but CCE has addes 30 pixels to the top and bottom. So I try again. This time I go into Picture Quality and selete letterbox and set both settings to 0. Nada, same thing.
What am I doing wrong? Can someone please help me out, so my boss doen't kill me. I can encode this with Canopus, but the image looks really bad when it is done. Not sure why, but it does. Would rather use CCE. Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I made a project in Premiere. First I made a matte in Photoshop that placed black 60 pixels on the top of the frame and 60 pixels on the bottom of the frame. Placed that in premiere. Made myself a nice 16x9 matte. Edited my project. Moving my video to fit within the bars to make a nice widescreeen matte. When I finished editing the project 4 weeks later, I exproted the project as a 4x3 (720x480) Microsoft DV avi file. I then imported the project into VirtualDub and used Null transform to remove 60 pixels from the top and bottom of the frame. Then resized the image to 720x320. I also used an unsharp marsk with a value of 3, just incase. And in in some test tried the MSU filters. That will come in later. Any way. I then frame served this to CCE. I set it up for a 5 pass encode. setting it to 16x9. When it is done. I get a 16x9 image, but CCE has addes 30 pixels to the top and bottom. So I try again. This time I go into Picture Quality and selete letterbox and set both settings to 0. Nada, same thing.
What am I doing wrong? Can someone please help me out, so my boss doen't kill me. I can encode this with Canopus, but the image looks really bad when it is done. Not sure why, but it does. Would rather use CCE. Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks