Aspect Ratio Error with Premiere Pro

[tommazzo]

Hi,

I want to create a DVD from a PAL DV recording. I captured the video with WinDV. After that all faces were stretched vertically, which I think is due to the rectangular pixels used by DV, as described in the DV FAQ in this forum.
So far so good, but after editing and exporting the video from Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 the faces were stretched horizontally. For exporting I tried both 1.067 and 1.0 for the pixel aspect ratio, the latter stretched the image even more.

Has anybody got an idea how I can get to a normal 4:3 picture for the DVD?

[bb]

That's weird - you should not have aspect ratio problems with DV and Premiere.

Maybe your source is 16:9, and you encoded 4:3? Or your project was set to NTSC?

Please post your settings. You may analyze the DV video with GSpot and post the results, too.

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[tommazzo]

Thanks for the hint about the 16:9 source. My source is 4:3, but I just figured out that Premiere Pro was treating it as 16:9. GSpot also claimed that it was 16:9.
After I export the video now I am only left with the default DV aspect ratio error of having 8 pixels overscan on the left and the right. I want this video to look natural on a DVD, should I crop these 8 pixels on the sides and then resize back to 720x576 or should I encode the video with CCE as it is?

[wonkey_monkey]

should I crop these 8 pixels on the sides and then resize back to 720x576 or should I encode the video with CCE as it is?

The DVD player will take care of that - leave it as it is.

David

[tommazzo]

Thanks for your help!
This just brings up one question to me about "real" movie DVDs. Since you said I should not crop 8 pixels on each side, because the DVD player will take care of that, the DVD player apparently takes the center 704 pixels and resizes them appropriately. But how come those DVDs look good on both the computer (which is supposed to use the entire 720 pixels) and the DVD player?

[wonkey_monkey]

But how come those DVDs look good on both the computer (which is supposed to use the entire 720 pixels) and the DVD player?

The computer should also either a) chop off 8 pixels and resize, just as your DVD player is (giving the impression of) doing or b) resize the whole image, extra 8 and all, that little bit more so that everything is the same ratio.

Personally, I think you'd be hard pushed to tell if the computer was doing it "wrong" - it's only a 2% difference.

David

[tommazzo]

OK, now it makes sense. Thanks!