Bethan-- it sounds as if the software that came with your camcorder isn't capturing the video at its full size. Perhaps its "shrinking it down" when capturing. Maybe the software you used has settings that allow you to specify the capture "frame size." (The size of the video.) If you live in the in the US or Canada or Japan it's 720x480. If you live almost anywhere else, it's 720x576.
If you have a DV camera, and a firewire port on your computer (also called i.Link by Sony, or IEEE-1394 if you're technical) you can transfer video from your camcorder directly into Premiere at its full size. This is called "Capturing." The Adobe help manual is a wealth of information. Search for capturing. You can open the capture window by choosing File > Capture. I hope this helps you get started. -jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bethan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:27 PM Subject: [AP] Can anyone help a budding newbie! Hi, I am very new to Premiere Pro, having previously just used some software that came with my camcorder to edit my movies (called imagemixer and to pretty good effect actually for something soooo basic!). Anyway, I have put some clips together in the timeline and have then went to export it to see what it looks likes playing on my tv. Anyway, the frame/ movie size on screen is really small?!. I have tried various settings but all i seem to do is slightly stretch or change the shape of the outputted movie/ frames!. Anyone have any ideas??. I used the software i got with my camcorder to capture the footage. Could this be the reason why? Apologies for sounding like a complete idiot but we all start somewhere!. Thanks Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
