Aspect ratio problems with Premiere

[sabrina-il.livejournal.com]

Hi!

I use VirtualDub Mod to clip my sources and then vid with Adobe Premiere Pro. As per this post I usually add a black "frame" to my video files to make them 720x480 so Premiere can work with them.

Unfortunately I've now got a source that's only available as a VHS rip and the frame size is 560x304. When I try to resize the video to make the frame larger (so I can only add a black frame on top/bottom or left/right instead of on all four sides) it comes out sort of blurry and unclear (since I've essentially zoomed in and it's already a VHS rip).

So, is there anything I can do to make the aspect ratio OK for Premiere without zooming in? Or should I just suck it up and add a black frame on all 4 sides?

Help very, very much appreciated! <3

Comments

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

What I always do is just crop that frame off in the final encoding process after I finish and export the vid, and this always seems to work for me. (Of course, if you can get Premiere to do a project in the right parameters in the first place, that's probably better, but I know nothing of that. *g*)

[sabrina-il.livejournal.com]

Oooh, how do you crop it off? Do you do it with VDub?

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I'm running it through Vdub to convert it to a divx avi, I use the null filter and crop it, or if I'm going to resize it anyway I add a cropping...thing to the resize filter. (I still vid the way I learned to do it like...five years ago, and I haven't really changed anything since. So there may be better ways, IDK, I fear change. *g*)