Premiere question

[Kaijufan]

I'm working on a project in Premiere, and I can't get one of the effects to work. I need to use clip to cut off the top and the bottom of the screen so it looks like the project is in widescreen, but I can't get clip to work on the video. I have it in the effects control and I have it enabled, but it wont work. Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?

 

[Kaijufan]

I'm going to have to bump this back up. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing incorrectly?

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

The easiest thing to do to make something appear widescreen (I had to do this recently) isn't in premiere at all. Instead, load the program in VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org), go to Video-->filters-->resize. Set your video size to the size of your video (probably 480x320 depending on your source, make sure this number is *exactly* the same pixel size as your source material or look forward to artifacting hell) and then set the second property, pixel size (the one underneath) to 720x480.

When you render it all back out to a new AVI (be sure to set compression to something that will fit on yoru drive. DivX works nice) it will appear to be letterboxed 🙂

Jason

 

[Kaijufan]

Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex
The easiest thing to do to make something appear widescreen (I had to do this recently) isn't in premiere at all. Instead, load the program in VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org), go to Video-->filters-->resize. Set your video size to the size of your video (probably 480x320 depending on your source, make sure this number is *exactly* the same pixel size as your source material or look forward to artifacting hell) and then set the second property, pixel size (the one underneath) to 720x480.

When you render it all back out to a new AVI (be sure to set compression to something that will fit on yoru drive. DivX works nice) it will appear to be letterboxed 🙂

Jason

Thanks for the response. I'll download the program and see if I can get some black bars on my video.