I have attempted to capture a frame (Adobe Premier 6.0) as a bmp. When I double click on the resuting file in Premier it looks perfect. However, when I look at it in any outside photo editor (Paintbursh, Adobe Photoshop, etc.) it is "squished".

I'm catpturing the movie with .9 which was suggested to me earlier.

I figure I'm taking 30 pictures a second so I can find the perfect facial expression on someone and print it out as a photo but, alas, the "squished" look makes everyone look chubby. Bummer.

Does anyone else have any ideas?

What camera are you using? Is it recording is 16:9? Or do you
have premiere running in 16:9 mode? That might explain
squashing. Are you doing NTSC or PAL?

Could you just "un-squish" the frame in photoshop?

I'm using an XL1 capturing in frame mode 4:3. When I look at the properties of the resulting bmp it is 720x480.

I think you need to tell the viewing/printing program that the
pixel aspect it 0.9... I think it defaults to 1.0

Rob...good idea but I could not find anywhere in Photoshop (the light version) to do that. Nor in any other pic editors I have. None of the Help on any of the editors had any info on it.

In Photoshop LE, you can simply resize the picture. After opening the picture, go to Image - Image Size. In this box, UNCHECK the Constrain Proportions box and then change either the width or height of the picture.

For example, Vegas Video produces a 654x480 picture. I just resize to 640x480 to get the proper proportions.

You can try it. 720x480 then needs to be 648x480
(720 x 0.9 = 648). Good luck.

That did it Rob! Many thanks. Now I can start printing these out and framing them. Super!