
ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 2.0
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Common pixel aspect ratios for assets
Common pixel aspect ratios for assets
24P projects
About 24P footage
Because support for 24P footage is built into Adobe Premiere Pro, you need to make only minor preparations to
capture, import, and export 24P projects. Adobe Premiere Pro includes project presets for 24P; after you create a 24P
project, you import and capture your footage as usual.
Adobe Premiere Pro also includes two options for playback of 24P footage. Both options convert footage so that it
plays back at 29.97 fps, but with subtle visual and performance differences.
In Adobe Premiere Pro, you can edit images that were captured using 24P and 24P Advance (24PA) interlacing
schemes. These formats allow you to capture footage to NTSC DV tape at 24 progressive frames per second.
Asset
Pixel aspect ratio
When to use
Square pixels
1.0
Your footage has a 640 x 480 or 648 x 486 frame size, is
1920 x 1080 HD (not HDV or DVCPRO HD), is 1280 x 720
HD or HDV, or was exported from an application that
doesn’t support nonsquare pixels. This setting can also
be appropriate for footage that was transferred from film
or for customized projects.
D1/DV NTSC
0.9
Your footage has a 720 x 486 or 720 x 480 frame size, and
your desired result is a 4:3 frame aspect ratio.This setting
can also be appropriate for footage that was exported
from an application that works with nonsquare pixels,
such as a 3D animation application.
D1/DV NTSC Wide-
screen
1.2
Your footage has a 720 x 486 or 720 x 480 frame size, and
your desired result is a 16:9 frame aspect ratio.
D1/DV PAL
1.0666
Your footage has a 720 x 576 frame size, and your desired
result is a 4:3 frame aspect ratio.
D1/DV PAL Widescreen
1.422
Your footage has a 720 x 576 frame size, and your desired
result is a 16:9 frame aspect ratio.
Anamorphic 2:1
2.0
Your footage was shot using an anamorphic film lens, or
was anamorphically transferred from a film frame with a
2:1 aspect ratio.
HDV 1080/DVCPRO HD
720 (After Effects), HD
Anamorphic 1080
(Adobe Premiere Pro)
1.33
Your footage has a 1440 x 1080 or 960 x 720 frame size
and your desired result is a 16:9 frame aspect ratio.
DVCPRO HD 1080 (After
Effects only)
1.5
Your footage has a 1280 x 1080 frame size and your
desired result is a 16:9 frame aspect ratio.