Making 400x300 vid from NTS footage in Premiere

[ch33t4h]

I understand that 400x300 is a good resolution to create my clips at. I'm trying to pull a few short clips from a DVD and make them 400x300 in Premiere Pro, But I'm having issues. My clip is in a MPEG-2 file. I created a new Premiere project as Video for windows:
Frame size: 400x300
Timebase: 29.97 secs
Pixel aspect D1/DV NTSC
I left everything else defaults. I imported my movie and trimmed it down with a razor to just the few seconds I wanted. Using the fram forward and backward I cut my clip exactly where I wanted it. Then I exported to an AVI using Cinepac Codec. When I play it back, the start and end frames are off by 3 frames or so. Also the video playback is very fast.

I'm sure someone here know the right way to do it.

Thx

[Luminarti]

Hi there

I sometimes find, if using the left and right arrow keys to scrub along to find a cut point - that the cut is a few frames out.
My way arround this is jump one frame forward and one frame back. Then the cut piont is always on.

As for your clip speeding up - strange - are you sure it's shorter?


Mark
VJ Luminarti

[VJamm]

I'm not sure that 400x300 is a good resolution to work in

both sides of the video should be divisible by 16

eg. 384x288

random errors can occur if you break this rule

Russell

[holly]

The dvd you're ripping from may have a framerate of 24fps (movie speed). You've sped it up to (just under) 30fps.

[ch33t4h]

Holly-

You're right. It's 24 fps and I encoded to 30 fps. What should I do to fix it?