16:9 and Premiere Pro CS3

[Bkster]

We just purchased a Tricaster Pro FX and did our first project using live sets. All in all in came out well. We did everything in 16:9 ratio. Needing to get the project done quickly I elected to take the .avi files that Tricaster produced and imported them into Premiere. I contacted support when this did not work and they sent me the multi codec package which I installed on my Windows Vista machine. Now the issue I am having is that the .avi files will view in the source monitor at 16:9 but when I take it down into the sequence it goes to 4:3 ratio. I have the project set to 16:9. Does anyone have any ideas. If I open the raw .avi file in windows media player it displays 16:9. Thanks for any advice.

[SBowie]

As this is really a Premiere question, maybe this will help:

"You may occasionally encounter a distorted clip if Adobe Premiere Pro interprets pixel aspect ratio incorrectly. You can correct the distortion of an individual clip by manually specifying the source clip’s pixel aspect ratio in the Interpret Footage dialog box."

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/help.html?content=WSAB9F51A7-8D3F-40db-A512-F1948EC207B3.html

[billmi]

I haven't worked with Premiere since about 1999, and it's changed a *little* since then, but it sounds like you need to set your project to 16:9 aspect ratio.

I suspect that, since Premiere is showing them as 16:9 in the source monitor it is correctly identifying the aspect ratio of the clip.

[animlab]

The NewTek SHQ2 avi files seems don't have a flag or record to show the avi file is 16:9 or 4:3. At least during my last analyses of SHQ2 file did not find the field about the aspect ratio. So I guess you need to manually set the aspect ratio in Premiere with SHQ2 avi files.

[hqv]

Project Presets should be:
DV - NTSC Widescreen or Custom (Progressive Widescreen) - The default is interlaced

Import your 16x9 tricaster clip

Select the file in the Project or timeline panel.

Choose File > Interpret Footage
On Pixel Aspect Ratio
check Conform to:
D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1:2)


DV has the same number of pixles for 4:3 or 16:9

Normal .avi files have some form of code to identify the pixel aspect ratio

In Premiere, you will specifiy the pixel aspect ration 1.2