Adobe Premiere 6.0....wide screen problem

Hoyle00 · Post by **Hoyle00** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:25 pm

ok here's my problem, I have a clip that I have in widescreen and i wish to maintain it in wide screen in my full screen video...

So i already clicked on maintain aspect ratio.

however here's my problem, i wish to have this widescreen clip overtop of a full screen clip behind it, the problem is i can't get the Aspect Fill Colour to be invisible....In other words i don't want a black bar in the top and bottom of my widescreen clip

Kaji01 · Post by **Kaji01** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:44 pm

Well, I imagine you could play with the transparency settings and get rid of them that way, but that would also remove any other solid black in the frames shown with said transparency settings.

Another option is to enlarge the widescreen stuff so that the vertical fills the screen and crop the edges as necessary...

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:01 am

create a mask in photoshop or whatever you use.

import the file and link it to your video.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:33 am

He might not even have to go that far. The "garbage matte" feature in Premiere would probably work fine for cropping out letter boxes. Goto your transperancy settings for the clip, there should be a preview thumbnail in the upper right. You'll have four white sqaures in each corner of the thumbnail. You can use those to adjust what is visible.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 12:27 pm

klinky wrote:He might not even have to go that far. The "garbage matte" feature in Premiere would probably work fine for cropping out letter boxes. Goto your transperancy settings for the clip, there should be a preview thumbnail in the upper right. You'll have four white sqaures in each corner of the thumbnail. You can use those to adjust what is visible.

Garbage Matte > Clip

Garbage Matte = any Premiere user's friend

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:17 pm

If only you could keyframe it

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:05 pm

Actually all he needs is the Alpha Matte Transparency option : /

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:06 pm

Err.. Alpha Channel Transparency option

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:55 pm

That would require him actually making a matte. Garbage matte in Premiere is adjusting a few points... It's really quick and simple. Easier than making an actual matte...

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:03 pm

Corran Productions wrote:Err.. Alpha Channel Transparency option

This one won't...