Display Size Problem

Fatelogic · Post by **Fatelogic** » Tue May 06, 2008 6:39 pm

Maybe this question is one of the most simple to solve for the 99,9% of the people reading this, but since I´m recently starting to use an editing program more sophisticated than WMM

I´d like you to help me with this detail.

When I import a video on Premiere Pro CS3 and then drag it to the left window, it appears at it´s normal size... but when I drag that same video in the secuence bar and play it (on the right window, of course), the image seems to have been resized, smaller than the original video, letting those anoying black spaces around it... obviously I could just change the video´s scale (from 100% to 107% for most of the videos) for it to fit almost perfectly, but that ruins the quality a bit...

Is there a way to configure it so the size of the video secuence (shown at the right) is the same as the original (at the left) whitout having to resize it?

I wanna get rid of this doubt so I can start with my next project... thx

--Fatelogic--

P.D.: Sry if this was a little confusing, I´m recently starting to learn the "technical terms" for this kind of work

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Tue May 06, 2008 6:47 pm

make sure your project settings match your source footage. If you used AMVApp for ripping dvds, you should be able to see your footage's settings in DGIndex.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:29 pm

The left window is the video preview constrained by the video file's own properties. The right window is the video preview constrained by the properties you gave the project. If those don't match you're project settings and/or footage dimensions/PAR are wrong.

Fatelogic · Post by **Fatelogic** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:58 pm

So, if I want to use, for example, 2 videos with different resolutions, there is no other option than resize one of them with the "scale option" for it to match with the other?

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Tue May 06, 2008 8:06 pm

You could always add letterboxing/borders to the smaller one, which would keep size and quality of footage, but would have the ugly black bars.

Fatelogic · Post by **Fatelogic** » Tue May 06, 2008 8:19 pm

Yeah... I´ll have to do them like a "widescreen" AMV hahahaha...

Oh well... the world isn´t perfect...

Anyway, thanks for your help!

And by the way... I´ll be bugging all of you with my doubts from time to time, so be patient or you might go insane

See ya´!

--Fatelogic--