Getting the output to look right in Premiere cs3...

[BasharOfTheAges]

Those are your export settings... Your project settings should match what your source resolution if you don't want the extra black space. Also, your squished video is because your PAR is set to 1.2 and you're viewing it on a computer monitor with a PAR of 1.0.

Thanks! I was a bit unsure of what to do - but then I did a new project, selected the "custom settings" tab instead of "load preset", changed editing mode to desktop, timebase to 23.976fps, frame size to 704x396, PAR to square 1.0, fields to progressive, display format to 24fps timecode (not sure exactly what this does, but I assume it's because my source is 23.976, so playback is 24fps????)

Have you Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>? Preprocessing to the framerate you want to use (24fps is suggested) is a lot easier.

[dazza1008]

Have you Read <a href="http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech/">ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>? Preprocessing to the framerate you want to use (24fps is suggested) is a lot easier.

I have, actually, but thanks. If I hadn't read it I wouldn't even have recognised an interlaced frame. I wasn't sure if that was preprocessing. (and why wouldn't it go to 23.976? Then again... 24 is fine... unless every notch was .999 of a second)
Anyway, the thing saves. I'm happy. ^^