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Hi there,
can't image that I'm the only one with this question but still could not find any posts regarding this issue.
I'm using Premiere for years now and until totay could not find any solution for the following problem:
Working with widescreen footage (RED,...) and editing it into a 16:9 sequence the video is correctly displayed on my external 16:9-reference monitor connected via Black Magic Ultra Studio Express.
But when opened in the Viewer window, the widescreen clip is always displayed distorted on the external display,
ALLTHOUGH Scale-Down-option within Premiere is activated in Preferences/Playback/Blackmagic Design Setup.
Avid offers the option, to add letterboxes to widesreen clips so that they are displayed correctly on an external 16:9 screen.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot!
Christoph
Hi Pat/Christoph:
Here's an approach that's worked for me in the past:
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there's something wrong with this forum cause I get messages way later than BEFORE I reply to what I see when I read the forum... another words, the continuity of messages ( posts) is totally screwed up.
Anyway, Andy, just so you know.. I grew up in film biz and despite criticism today I will love you with all my heart tomorrow ! See you on the red carpet !
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Salvo34,
This forum should list who the responses are for automaticaly. It would make things less confusing.
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Warren, thanks for breath of fresh air, but I wish people wouldn't bury messages into sub sections... and just add to the end of the thread. But who cares...I'm outta here as my head will explode soon.
The poster died and will never come back and doesn't know how to uncheck scale down in BM control and nobody knows what the heck is going on here... so I'm gonna walk the dog in the snow...and wish you all luck.
hehe,..
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Hi Pat/Christoph:
Here's an approach that's worked for me in the past:
It's not ideal, but it works to keep your 2:35 footage letterboxed on the reference monitor connected to your Blackmagic hardware. If you use Match Frame (f) from the 001 Sequence, you'll bring up the source clip in the Source Monitor and you'll have to swtich back to having the 000 Sequence in the Source Monitor at some point.
When you lock picture, let's say Sequence "cosmos_2021-10-12_127", you can go to the Sequence Settings and change it from your 16:9 frame size to your 2:35 frame size for finishing. maybe nesting the 2:35 127 Sequence into another 16:9 Sequence for viewing on the Blackmagic hardware as you color correct or do other finishing tasks, maybe called "cosmos_2021-10-12_127_for_BM".
I hope this makes sense.
-Warren
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I have an Ultrastudio monitor and can confirm that adobe premiere/black magic cannot send a simple 16:9 scale of 3840 x 2160 down to 1920 x 1080 to a Flanders Scientific CM170 broadcast monitor. This is a simple half resolution down scaling. Either Premiere or Black Magic changes it to a 2K output (which the FSI reads and displays) but it is stretched out 2k is 2048 x 1080. When I go to the BM video setup and change the output to 1920 x 1080, no matter what flavor, it always reverts to 2K after playing back from Premiere Pro. BM UltraStudio appears to be doing whatever Premiere tells it and the FSI reports the same thing. Someone at Adobe likes 2k over regular 1080 and they just left it in there as the default display for Transmit. PITA. I wonder if it's the same person who decided to make the proxy presets 2k as well. You're just driving us over to Resolve, Adobe. This is only happening on downscaling with the BM box. Regular 1080 looks fine. Can't just give us a half scaled image?