I filmed (or more accurately) video taped a movie and I have edited it using Adobe Premier. Okay well, now I want to export it with the "black bars" so it looks more like a movie. How would I go about doing that?
? Doug
? Doug
did you shoot your video is 16x9?
"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot apprecieate the great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."
-------Pauline Kael
"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot apprecieate the great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."
-------Pauline Kael
I've been wanting to know the answer to that as well. However, I was told that the best thing to do is to shoot in regular format (not 16/9), and have the letter box indicators on the camera (if you have a good enough camera) help you frame the shot. You then somehow tell Premier to add the black bars, and you don't have any export problems. If anyone knows the function in premier that does this, please answer.
"What?"
I have no idea if premiere has a feature for this, but to make it simply do as follows:
1) Export you film as an AVI (with sound and everything) then import it back into premier (now it should only take up one video and one audio track)
2) Now create a picture the size of your films frame, have the middle blue (like a bluescreen) and do the top and bottom black in the ratio you want.
3) Import the picture into your premiere project and put it in a seperate track to your movie, change the duration so its the same length as your movie.
4) Now do the bluescreen transperancy so you can see the movie on the sides but not the top and bottom.
5) Export this project as an AVI and vola! (thats french) the top and bottom widescreen bars.
Make Love Not War!
Make Love Not War!
This is easy (but time-consuming) in Premiere, provided you have plenty of disk space.
First edit your movie in a 16:9 project. Then export the timeline to a .avi file (if you're not using NTFS and it's over 18 minutes you'll have to export to multiple .avi files in chunks due to the 4GB file size limit).
Now start a new 4:3 project. Import your exported .avi file(s), and if you saved multiple files then stitch them together on the timeline. You now have 16:9 .avi files in a 4:3 project.
Now, for each clip select 'Maintain Aspect Ratio' from the menu. That tells Premiere that you want it to scale the 16:9 video files in the 4:3 frame with letterboxing.
Finally, render the movie and export it to tape.
