I recently downloadaed a trial version oif Adobe Premiere Pro. I was editing my first project and when it finished I realized that the video covered only half of the screen! Does anyone what this problem is and how to fix it? If so please tell me. Thanks a million.

the video covers half the screen? sounds like a glitch to me--did u export and it still "covered half the screen"?

(hey u can say u dled it off kazaa--dont worry about it)

weird

there are tons of things i could think of with any NLE - how does it cover half the screen? do you mean half the playback area? or half the screen when you export back to tape?

it it half (like vertically or horizontally - squished?) or a quarter, as in half both ways?

anyway - i'm not a premiere expert but i may have a clue depending on those things i asked.

First of all I decided to not download off Kazaa but get the trial off their site. Also it is squished in the middle. Once I put the video on their no matter where I export it to it is still squished. The only thing I am doing that might cause trouble is that I'm importing some of the footage from other programs (Ie. WIndows Movie Maker). This is because I'm using a VHS-C camcorder and am not able to capture that onto Premiere Pro.

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(hey u can say u dled it off kazaa--dont worry about it)

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No he cant say that. We don't discuss that stuff here for the sake of the board.


Getting back to the topic, i have an answer for you.

Project-> Project Settings -> General. Under the title and action safe area options is a check box for scale clips to proj. dimensions when adding to sequence. You are probably using footage at a lower resolution and subsuquently not filling the entire screen. Be aware that you may lose some res. By the way, you said you captured with movie maker from a vhs-c cam, but using what interface? Not firewire obviously, Dazzle or something? That could explain it as well. Many low end interface devices capture at 320x240.

You may need to place all of your clips back into your sequence to force the change. If this is the case, you may be better off taking the entire sequence and placing it into a new sequence. Select that full length clip, go to effetc controls, click on motion and resize the footage to fill the screen. That way you dont have to do the editing over again.

Drinks on me! RThank you so much for the tipo. It fixed everything right up. I love this message board!