On Sun, 4 May 2003 11:46:59 -0400, "Pan Man" <sspam@spampasm.org> wrote:

>According to a document called "Adobe Premiere for Adobe Photoshop Users",

>NTSC folks should:

> 1/ Save photos as 720x540 (4:3)

> 2/ Import into Premiere (NTSC Standard setup)

>

>(Source: www.adobe.com/products/premiere/pdfs/ps_to_pre.pdf)

>

>However, according to Ross McLennan, NTSC folks should:

> 1/ Crop photos to 640x480 (4:3)

> 2/ Resize photos to 720x480 (which stretches the images and makes everyone

>look a bit wider)

> 3/ Import into Premiere (NTSC Strandard setup)

>

>McLennan's recommends this approach because, he says, the resulting (NTSC)

>VCD, SVCD, or DVD will squish the image back and make everyone look perfect.

>(Source: http://geocities.com/dunder01au/Do-it.html).

.

>Is McLennan right or is Adobe right? Is Adobe just trying to keep things

>simple for non-pefectionists?

Hmmmm....

Why not just try it?

I think Adobe has it right for TV-viewing. I size 4:3

(usually double 640x480 [1280x960], rather than

720x540, but the latter should work at least as well...;-),

then just import. While in Premiere, the images will be

stretched sideways to 720x480 proportion (and shown that

way in P-5, but "restored" in the preview in P-6), but

the proportions will be restored upon viewing on a TV.

If you are viewing on a computer, you may want to go

with the 720x480 proportion for importing (NTSC)...