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1. Re: CS4 - Slideshow resolution/aspect ratio issues
Bill Hunt Apr 9, 2011 10:11 AM (in response to TorQue[MoD])What is your Project/Sequence Preset?
Are you including any Video, or are all of your Assets stills?
With stills only, you would choose Square Pixels for the Project/Sequence Preset, as all stills should be with a PAR of 1.0, Square Pixels.
If you are doing an SD Project/Sequence, it would be set up as 720 x 480, PAR = 1.0 for NTSC, and then the stills Scaled to that in PS, so that PrPro does not have to Scale. For the Project/Sequence Preset, you will probably want to start with the Desktop, and there customize the PAR - do not think that there is an NTSC Preset for 720 x 480 w/ PAR = 1.0, but check me out on that one, please.
If you are also working with Video Assets, that would take prescendnce with the Project/Sequence Preset.
A black border most often indicates a mis-match somewhere, and most likely in the PAR of the Project/Sequence.
Good luck,
Hunt
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2. Re: CS4 - Slideshow resolution/aspect ratio issues
TorQue[MoD] Apr 9, 2011 11:50 AM (in response to Bill Hunt)Well that's the thing. I figured using a desktop setting with a PAR of 1.0 would work so I tried this after I posted, but the images seem to have aspect ratios built into them somehow even though I've cropped them all to be exactly 720x480 in Photoshop so I thought the PAR would be at 1.0. MOST of them seem to read in premiere as an aspect ratio of .9091 but some of them do show as 1.0. and the ones that show as .9091 still have the bars
How do I change the PAR if premiere seems to ignore the settings from Photoshop? I even tried deleting the PAR settings inside photoshop and changing them, but it didn't affect them at all once they went back into premiere.
Everything is still images, not using any video. Also, there's still the problem with the loss of quality. They're perfectly clear as actual jpegs and inside Premiere they look fine but upon export they're fuzzy. Changing the sequence PAR to 1.0 fixed the borders but didn't improve quality at all.
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3. Re: CS4 - Slideshow resolution/aspect ratio issues
able123 Apr 10, 2011 9:07 AM (in response to TorQue[MoD])hiya,
sounds to me like you should start from the beginning and do 1 photo into a project and get that right before you add a whole bunch of them.
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I re-sized all of the photos to 720x480 and for some reason when I export the file from premiere, the photos all have a rather large border even though I sized them to fit and inside the preview window of premiere, they fit the screen no problem.
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however, you also said something like " I cropped " the photos....and they are 2 different things.
if you resized with "contrain proportions " ( image / image size in photoshop ) its gonna do different stuff than "cropping" your image.
maybe post the info about your original image size to begin with....( dimensions in px size ) and dpi and par.....
somebody can then help you by duplicating what you want to do on their own machine... if you give info also on what your final product will be ( dvd SD 4:3 etc etc )
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4. Re: CS4 - Slideshow resolution/aspect ratio issues
TorQue[MoD] Apr 10, 2011 7:26 PM (in response to able123)Ok its getting a bit convoluted now so let me explain where I'm currently at.
The project is going to be a 16:9 widescreen DVD. When I changed the sequence settings to Desktop and PAR 1.0 it fixed the border issue on any of the images that read as a PAR of 1.0 in premiere but some of the images are still reading as a PAR of 0.9091 and changing the PAR inside Photoshop doesn't seem to make a difference to Premiere.
Most of the images were first re-sized to the nearest dimension in either height or width and THEN cropped in PS. The reason for this is they would often scale down to something like 723 x 480 and then I'd just adjust the canvas width to 720 to remove the extra pixels. The problem is the original image sizes are all different cause they weren't all taken with the same camera. Maybe what I need to do is cut and paste all of the photos into a clean canvas in PS and then save them as another file name to get them to be PAR 1.0 rather than saving over the original jpeg? Does Premiere look at XIF data at all?
Basically my only remaining problems are the PAR (why some images are 1.0 and some aren't) and the clarity upon rendering. I render to Mpeg2 and it doesn't matter if I set the CBR to 6 or 16, they always look blurry.
Thanks for trying to help me figure this out guys.




