• VEGAS Pro

  Black bars on top and bottom of rendered movie…Irritating!

  Posted by Jim Long on December 15, 2011 at 5:40 am

  Hi,

  Something thats had my head banging against the wall is when I try to render a 720p video it stretches it sideways and puts black bars on top and bottom of the video. I believe this pic may lead to the problem: https://img850.imageshack.us/img850/288/vegasaspect.jpg

  Why does the display image have a weird aspect ratio? It takes that display image and stretches it to 720p when I render it even though I’m importing 720p vids already.

  Hoping someone can help :/ how do you change the aspect ratio of the “display”.

  John Rofrano replied 14 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dave Lozinski

  December 16, 2011 at 1:40 am

  Have you tried right-clicking on the photo event in the time line, selecting properties, and then seeing of the box is ticked that says to maintain aspect ratio or not?

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  John Rofrano

  December 16, 2011 at 3:34 pm

  [jim long] “Why does the display image have a weird aspect ratio? It takes that display image and stretches it to 720p when I render it even though I’m importing 720p vids already.”

  Because your project is not set up correctly. I can see from your screenshot that your project is set to 720×480 PAR 0.9091 (NTSC DV) which is a 4:3 aspect. 720p video is 1280×720 PAR 1.0 with an aspect of 16:9. Set your project to HDV 720-30p (1280×720, 29.970 fps) and your problems should go away. (you may have to re-crop everything so it’s best to start a new project with the correct properties)

  ~jr

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