Hey Steve
To start with, sorry, I don't have Premiere Elements, so hopefully
someone who knows for sure will answer your question.
In the mean time, though, here's some things to look at.
When you first open Elements, you probably have a dialog of some kind,
asking what kind of project you will be working on. If you have wide
screen footage that is MPEG2, you should try to find a project preset
that closely matches that.
Assuming you have a 16x9 project chosen, your 16:9 clips should look
correct in the program.
If they don't, there is probably a way to correct the aspect ratio.
Some options here, maybe right click on the clip and look for words
like "interpret" or "aspect ratio" etc.
I agree with you, its better if you can avoid the extra step of going
through Streamclip. If your camera is recording to MPEG2, going to DV
and then ultimately back to MPEG2 for your final DVD is a bad cycle of
compression, decompression, compression.
Sorry, not a lot of help, but maybe you'll get enough out of that to
know what to start looking for!
Carlin Comm
http://www.seattle-hotshotz.com
Seattle, WA 98119
206-283-2176
On Jun 19, 4:53 pm, Steve Silverman <ssilv...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am still fairly near the bottom of the learning curve when it comes
> to video. I have just acquired a Panasonic camcorder that I have
> configured to shoot in 16:9. When I load the MPEG-2 clips into
> Premiere Elements they appear horizontally squashed, and I can find no
> way to make them display in the correct widescreen perspective.The
> only way I seem to be able to do it is by loading the video into
> Streamclip and converting it into a DV file. As a consequence of this,
> I have two questions that I would be very grateful for some advice on.
> 1. Is there really no way to get anamorphic widescreen to display
> correctly in Premiere Elements without introducing the extra
> conversion step?
> 2. If the answer to 1. is no, what is the best output option to choose
> in Streamclip that will avoid any loss of quality through further
> compression, and that will provide me with the best master copy for
> subsequent editing?
> Steve Silverman
