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New to Premiere Pro

Postby sakurablossom143 » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:36 pm

Hello,

I just recently got my premiere pro, but I'm already having some newbie problems. It seems that every time I render an image or video my video and image are zoomed in and no matter how many times I change it, it still does the same thing. What can I do to fix this?
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Postby Pwolf » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:37 pm

read the manual? actually i don't know. I havn't used Pro very much so not sure how to help you on that. try looking for motion options or zoom?

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Postby Scintilla » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:09 am

What are your project settings, and what resolution are the clips you're using? Also, make sure that the monitor window is set to 100% zoom (or smaller if your desktop isn't big enough to let it all fit at 100%).
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Postby Scintilla » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:44 am

... Whatever happened to Adobe getting out of the Macintosh NLE market starting with Premiere Pro?

In any case, the project resolution of 320x240 on the first tab might be your problem. Premiere Pro doesn't automatically resize everything to fit the project resolution like older versions did (and thank goodness for that), so if your clips are at, say, 640x480, then everything except the middle 320x240 will be cropped out unless you zoom out in the Motion settings.

As I asked, what resolution are the clips you're using? The project resolution should always match that of your clips.

I don't know if this affects it or not, but you also might want to consider using a different preview codec -- I don't know if DV in Quicktime has these same limitations, but DV AVIs are rather restricted in what frame rates and resolutions they can use. Is there an MJPEG codec for Quicktime?

And if Premiere Pro won't let you change your project settings, then create a new project with the proper settings and Import your old project into your new project. That way you won't lose any edits.
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Postby DriftRoot » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:13 am

Scintilla wrote:And if Premiere Pro won't let you change your project settings, then create a new project with the proper settings and Import your old project into your new project. That way you won't lose any edits.


If you import your other project, some of the settings still remain (meaning, there's some settings that can mess up your new project, the PAR, for instance). You can't always just plunk the old project timeline down onto the new timeline and voila, everything's perfect.
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Postby sakurablossom143 » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:36 pm

My Clips that I'm using are 320 x 224. That is the size my Clip Creator puts it out as.
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Postby souretsu » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:00 pm

sakurablossom143 wrote:My Clips that I'm using are 320 x 224. That is the size my Clip Creator puts it out as.


uh isn't that kinda a problem waiting to be happen?
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Postby sakurablossom143 » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:36 pm

For some reason I can't import avi into premiere. So I'm stuck with small clips
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Postby Kariudo » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:49 pm

are your avi clips encoded with divx or xvid?
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Postby sakurablossom143 » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:36 am

I think when i ripped them, i ripped them as xvid, should i have ripped them in mpeg?
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Postby Kariudo » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:33 am

.vob would have been ideal (that's what you get when you just remove the css, macrovision, region code, etc...)

converting the .vob-s to something else just means you lose quality (save for huffyuv and lagarith)
and your footage will still be interlaced (editing interlaced is somewhat of a pain, and it'l look bad on playback)
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