• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Black Line at top of Video

  Posted by Will Johnston on June 11, 2007 at 7:23 pm

  I’m capturing video from a mini DV cam (Panasonic P2 series), and my footage has a small black line across the top. I’ve had this happen before as well, so it’s not a one time thing. My project settings are DV NTSC, 29.97 frames/sec, 720×480, 0.9 Pixel Aspect Ratio, and the capture format is DV Capture. Any ideas?

  Thanks,
  Will

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  Rhewitt replied 19 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rhewitt

  June 11, 2007 at 10:53 pm

  That’s completely normal Will in DV/DVCam.

  At 720 x 480 your image size is slightly reduced in height compared to the standard 486-lines. This will leave a small black band at top of frame. It is, however, well into the cut-off area on a normal TV so it won’t be visible. If it really bothers you, you could scale the image size to fit the frame but then you’ll lose a bit of the picture width.

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