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Premiere Pro > Interpret Footage = Kill Process??

Postby Gepetto » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:39 am

I'm not sure what's going on here, and it may even be a memory issue. The thing is, I use a lot of stills for editing, and I use The GIMP 2.2.10 for creating or editing stills, everything from editing a screenshot to creating a title. And I save the PD files for using in Premiere Pro.

But The GIMP saves my image files with a 0.9 pixel aspect ratio and my current projects (I'm currently running 2) are set up for 1.0 in Premiere Pro. When I import one-layer 0.9 footage I can force Premiere to read it as 1.0, but the problem occurs when I try that with multiple-layer images.

I import them as a sequence, right-click the folder and select "interpret footage", change it to "Square pixels (1.0)" and click OK... and Premiere shuts down. If I try doing it with one layer at a time, whenever I force interpreting a layer as 1.0 all the other layers go offline.

So what I want to know is, can I make premiere stop doing that, OR make the GIMP export 1.0 pixels (I looked but didn't find an option for that)? I can export the images with a wider resolution, but it does affect my final quality, so I'd rather have a different method.


Thanks in advance, and sorry for the long write-up


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Postby Cloyce » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:37 am

Sincerely, I never heard about Aspect Ratio within
ImageProcessing software.

Anyway, try to create another project in premiere pro,
then use Automate to Sequence to put your images on timeline
and finally, export in AVI uncompressed (use 32bit if your images
support alpha channel).

2nd step.
Correct the aspect ratio of your video files in a external tool (Virt....)
and resave them in AVI uncompressed.

Final Step.
Try to import it in Premiere Pro.

Ok, it's not a fine idea ^^
But probably, it works.
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Postby Gepetto » Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:48 pm

It does, but my hard drives only have 140 GB memory so I can't really afford to save all my images in AVI files.

Cloyce wrote:Sincerely, I never heard about Aspect Ratio within
ImageProcessing software.


Photoshop CS2 has that option, but I don't know how to use Photoshop.
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Postby Cloyce » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:42 pm

Oh my God O.O

How much images do you have? 8000?

140GB is a enough for 1 hour of uncompressed video, so.. ^^

In this moment, on my HD I have only 18.6GB of free space, and
I'm still working. So, don't worry, go ahead.

What's a PD file? ( PSD?)
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Re: Premiere Pro > Interpret Footage = Kill Process??

Postby Willen » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:41 pm

Gepetto wrote:OR make the GIMP export 1.0 pixels (I looked but didn't find an option for that)? I can export the images with a wider resolution, but it does affect my final quality, so I'd rather have a different method.


I don't use GIMP, but doing a little research I think I found some possible solutions. Either go to the Scale Image dialog and make sure your Pixel Dimensions Ratio X and Y are the same (lock it, if possible). Or (less relevant) check your Aspect Ratio setting in Crop & Resize Information.
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Postby Gepetto » Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:40 am

Cloyce wrote:Oh my God O.O

How much images do you have? 8000?

140GB is a enough for 1 hour of uncompressed video, so.. ^^


That's my total space. I have stuff installed and all that... For editing, I have around 50GB of free space. I should have said that in the first place, shouldn't I? :oops:

Cloyce wrote:What's a PD file? ( PSD?)


Yes. Sorry for the typo.

Willen wrote:
Gepetto wrote:OR make the GIMP export 1.0 pixels (I looked but didn't find an option for that)? I can export the images with a wider resolution, but it does affect my final quality, so I'd rather have a different method.


I don't use GIMP, but doing a little research I think I found some possible solutions. Either go to the Scale Image dialog and make sure your Pixel Dimensions Ratio X and Y are the same (lock it, if possible). Or (less relevant) check your Aspect Ratio setting in Crop & Resize Information.


Those are pixel aspect ratios? But mine are set to 1.000 X and 1.000 Y so that can't be the problem.

Wouldn't thre be a way to make premiere auto-convert footage to 1.0 when importing?
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Postby Cloyce » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:15 am

I have a little idea.

Why don't you put your images into a sequence.
And then scale them manually by unchecking Uniform Scale.
In this way you can correct the aspect ratio of many images in
one time.
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Postby Gepetto » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:59 pm

Yeah. That works. Thank you.
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