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Capture adds black bars on top and bottom
Having an issue with footage being captured into FCP 7. It seems to add a few rows of black to the top and bottom of our footage as seen here:
Below are our capture and sequence settings.
Capturing from a variety of decks being routed through a router and into a KONA LHi.
When we import a clip which was ingested elsewhere (or a fullscreen graphic) and does not have these black bars all looks well.
What gives?
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4 Replies
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This is common in material digitized from analog sources. It’s outside the scan area of a television.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
You can just size the clips up a few pixels worth to lose that.
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We have seen the black edges all the time but previously only on the sides.
This footage was written from avid xpress to a beta and was scaled in avid to remove previous black edges.
On the tape it appears to not have the black edges just before import to fcp. This would make sense if the black were on the sides, but top and bottom is new to me. Any other thoughts?
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No, as Tom said, really, it’s normal. It’s outside of the scan area – you can barely see if your production monitor has an Overscan switch. Most NTSC I’ve come across has at least a field or two like that (based on the camera.) and if someone used DV material and put it on a Beta tape, that’s exactly what you’d see (due to the differences between a 480 and a 486 raster area).
Best,
Jeff G
Apple Master Trainer
Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
Compressor Essentials Lynda.com
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