On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:18:33 GMT, d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman - Ruether) wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:41:24 GMT, "N Hamilton"
> wrote:

>>I am editing project on Premiere 5.1c, Exporting to DV, thence S-video
>>dubbing to VHS. Problem is that the 1.5 aspect ratio in DV being converted
>>to 1.33 in VHS stretches the images vertically.
>>
>>Is there any way within Premiere to downsize the project images vertically
>>with top and bottom black bars so that the DV to VHS analog-dub stretch
>>results in a normal looking image? And has a pseudo letterbox look?

>????
>If you are importing into P-5 and editing as DV, the
>horizontal stretch is just a computer monitor viewing
>artifact; it is actually 4:3 video. If you import
>graphics, make them originally 4:3 and ignore the
>widening due to non-square pixels. When returned to
>tape, they will again be 4:3. For letterboxing, use
>the "clip" filter in Premiere...

[there is more, that came out in email - this response
may be useful...]

A-HA! You have both discovered the answer to your
own question, and pointed out something I had not
noticed (!!!;-): the TRV-900 display has square pixels,
and as a result, it displays a sideways-stretched
image at 3:2 (as does a square-pixel computer editing
system...). Look at the TRV-900 image on TV, though,
and without losing inordinate amounts of image on the
two edges, things will look right. Shoot a circle with
the camera, and it will look oval on the LCD camcorder
screen and on most computer monitors, but look at it on
TV (or on a VHS copy on TV...), and the circle will be
round. As I said before, the extra DV horizontal
resolution (the vertical resolution is set by the
number of scan lines and cannot be changed in NTSC) is
had by increasing the pixel count within the 640 (4:3,
with 480 high) length - and that can be done by making
the DV pixels smaller horizontally than vertically
(rectangular, instead of square) in order to fit 720
pixels in the space of 640 without changing the
480-high count). BTW, Hi-8 is often grabbed as 704x480
in computers for the same reason: to increase
horizontal resolution compared with 640, and it also
is not stretched in the final output...