dvx-100 specific capture problem!
 

Hello.

i am having a real problem capturing video from my dvx-100

i have had the problem with my canopus raptor rt2 card and now i have a new matrox rtx-100 card and the problem persists...

the footage was shot on a dvx-100a with the in camera FAKE letterbox i.e. 4:3 footage with black bars above/below but it is NOT in 16:9 or anamorphic etc.

the footage comes into premiere as 720x480 with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.2 not .9

i can't get any help from the manufacturers because as soon as they hear dvx-100 they automatically blame it on the camera being 24p and kind of shut down on listening to anything else.

matthew

Matthew,
Did you intend to post this in the DV/MX forum versus the DVX100 forum? You might get a better response there.

At any rate, once you bring the video into Premiere, can't you change the pixel aspect ratio back to .9? I presume you want letterbox and not 16:9. If you are trying to figure out why the clips are being set to 1.2, you might look at your capture card's preferences to see if it autodetects a widescreen mode. If the card doesn't do it, then the DVX may be setting it that way for some reason. Or, maybe Premiere is setting it automatically.

yeah i'm an idiot, i meant to post it to the dvx-100 forum...

matthew