Premiere Elements 3.0- Aspect ratio of inserted pictures is skewed

I am inserting some pictures into my project that are the exact same size (720x480) as my final video export, however, they are getting squished down in the previews and in the final export, look more like 640x480.
Is there a way I can control this or prevent it from happening?
Thanks in advance!

If you've got Photoshop CS - CS4, you can change the pixel aspect ratio of your photos to .9 DV.
Otherwise, you can right-click on one of the pictures on the timeline and select Open Properties. Then open the Motion settings and uncheck Constrain Proportions for Scale and set the scale for the horizontal to 90%. That should make that picture perfect.
Then right-click on that picture on your timeline and select Copy, then lasso or shift-click to select all the other photos on your timeline, right-click and select Paste Attributes.
Great book I wrote, by the way. Full of gems like this! ;)

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goinfisin520
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The uninstall and reinstall has been known to be successful in some cases, but I would not do that with using a free ccleaner run
through between the uninstall and reinstall.
The full suggested scenario would be
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My PC display has an aspect ratio of 5:4 (1280 x 1024). LR uses the full display area but doesn't ensure that the pictures are displayed at their correct aspect ratio. A 3:2 picture actually displays as ~4:3. This is true for all displays of a picture including the slideshow.
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My videos are encoded with a resolution of 640x480, but the aspect ratio must be 16:9, so I need to scale my videos to 848x480. This is my code:
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Looking at the numbers you use - in this post and previous one - you seem to confuse two things: the aspect ratio of the picture and the aspect ratio of individual pixel.
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Let us start with your objectives. If you are restricted to a DVD disc, then your export choices from Premiere Elements will be
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What disk menu? I am talking about “disk menus” as per page 243 of Premiere Elements Manual.
It was my impression that you said that "Disc Menus Do Not Show...", so I was asking which specific disc menu theme are you using? And, is this "do not show" applicable to all the disc menu themes that you have tried to work with?
I am using a Panasonic Blu-Ray player on the TV.
Are the disc menus of your Premiere Elements DVD-VIDEO or AVCHD on DVD not displaying solely with this Panasonic player? Or, is the same observed with computer playback of the DVD product? If the missing menus in the end product issue that brought you here involves solely the Panasonic player, then I would ask if you have checked the player for any option that would control the display of menus in the playback?
Not sure if I am using “interlaced video” but you would know from my input sources mentioned above.
You wrote "My source media is output from iPhoto and Fotomagico slide shows whose output is MP4 MOV or M4V and if played back in Quicktime are of very acceptable quality (H.264 1920X1080)". That does not tell me if 1080p or 1080i, but I suspect that it is 1080p. The MediaInfo properties readout will give a definite answer.
http://download.cnet.com/MediaInfo/3000-2169_4-10413046.html
Just be careful for unwanted carry alongs with the MediaInfo free program. But iPhoto and Fotomagico should be telling you before export whether you are exporting 1080i or 1080p. My main focus on the Premiere Elements 1080p DSLR aspects related to slideshow is the fact that that Premiere Elements DSLR project presets seem to give consistently a sharper photo image in the end product. So when applicable (photo and video wise) it is the preferred route for me and others.
“Quality area” and space requirements are not of concerns at this stage since present show length is not even 30 minutes – or should I be concerned for some other reason but space?
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This may or may not affect what you are doing now, but it is important information to include in the discussion "just in case".
Also, related trivia...DVD disc marked 4.7 GB/120 minutes is in reality 4.38 GB; DVD disc marked 8.5 GB/240 minutes is in reality 7.95 GB.
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Please review and consider.
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I am working on porting over an existing .mov file importer from Windows to Mac while also upgrading it from CS4 to CS5 (and also rolling in the creation of a hand-written 64-Bit QuickTime file handling library to boot, ouch).
In my current test bed I am having problems with certain 1920 x 1080 .mov files. Some 1920x1080 files that I have get imported properly, some files that I have get imported with the wrong aspect ratio. I have verified that both files should be displayed using square pixels and have also verified that when the selector is sent that calls SDKGetInfo8( ) that I am setting the following for **all** of the above-mentioned test files:
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SDKFileInfo8->vidInfo.pixelAspectNum = 1
SDKFileInfo8->vidInfo.pixelAspectDen = 1
Where else are the pixelAspect values supposed to get set?
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- Is there some setting that might get set at the import of a file that says to derive the pixel aspect ratio from the pixel dimensions that might be getting triggered for the clips that are being imported as being stretched?
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I am taking a look at this issue further with the aid of an additional engineer here that has more experience with QuickTime files.
First off, upon viewing the XMP metadata of the stretched file in the Metadata Viewer available inside Premiere, the Video Pixel Format is, in fact, listed in the XMP metadata as 1.78.
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It is widescreen 16x9, 720x576 PAL. however on inspection of the properties, the .mov file has pixel aspect ratio is shown as 1.0940.
In after effects, if the footage was interpreted to be widescreen pixels (1.4587) it would then appear in its orgnal propotions on screen.
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That is so odd.
My only assumption is that because it is mov that it uses the QuickTime importer vs the native ones.
I know that QuickTime relies/chooses on the mov information over that of the stream information. So if the mov container says its 4:3 (1.0940:1) and the stream says it is 16:9 then Premiere will interpret it as 4:3 and box it in a 16:9 sequence.
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That's just a guess though
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