Adobe Premiere Elements Aspect Ratio Problem

[bnshrdr]

I am currently using Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0 to edit some recorded game footage from FRAPS. When FRAPS records, it makes the video 1280x1024 with a DAR of 5:4.

I noticed that one of the outputs from the program is a lossless AVI which is perfect because I want to encode the video with x264. In this output I have gone into advanced settings and have tweaked just about every setting and the best output thus far has been a video that still obeys the aspect ratio, but is surrounded basically by a black border.

Am I just missing a simple setting somewhere to maintain the aspect ratio or is there more to this than I thought.

[poisondeathray]

1080x1024 with DAR of 5:4 is just square pixel footage

I use premiere pro, but it should be similar. Make sure the pixel aspect ratio of your sequence settings are set to square pixel , with frame size of 1080x1024 . Also make sure your export settings are the same

[bnshrdr]

I still cannot get this to work properly. I left it at Square Pixels for aspect ratio and the video comes out without being stretched, but now has black bars on the top, bottom, left and right. It also even outputs a file of 1280x1024, so why cannot it not see that its input is of identical resolution?

This is happening for every output option available (AVI, MPEG, QUICKTIME, MICROSOFT).

[bnshrdr]

The source files do not have black borders. They come with a resolution of 1280x1024. Premiere is adding a black border basically.

I am positive I am the problem and not Premiere, but I have no idea how to get it to stop doing this.

Edit: In fact I think its the presets that are goofing it up. None of them sound really suitable for my video.

Edit2: Nevermind, just learned this was a limitation in Elements. Fortunately my school has a CS5 Production Premium package I can download that has Pro, which should be able to handle custom resolutions.

Thanks anyway guys.