edited footage is wrong aspect ratio..what happened ??

[John Rofrano]

Look at the shots that look 4:3 and right-click the event and on the media tab, what is the aspect ratio? Make sure it’s correct. If not, change it to the correct aspect.

~jr

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[Marvin Tackie]

Hi John…they are all wide screen….but when the video plays what I replaced doesnt have the bars…on top and bottom…. ???? so I have a video with bars..wide screen..and some without…please help

[John Rofrano]

but when the video plays what I replaced doesnt have the bars…on top and bottom…. ????

If everything is widescreen there should never be any bars at all. The fact that you have bars tells me that you are faking widescreen in a 4:3 frame. I’ll need more accurate information to figure out what’s going on:

What project template are you using? (exact name)

What render template are you using? (exact name)

What are your source media files? (see below)

To answer that last question, right-click the event and select Properties, then go to the Media tab and tell me the:

Format:
Attributes:
Frame rate:
Field order:
Pixel aspect ratio:

Like this:

~jr

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[Marvin Tackie]

thanks John….the previous footage has bars on the top and bottom….the footage I’m trying to work with doesnt have any bars…

What project template are you using? (exact name)

NTSC DV Widescreen (720×480, 29.970 fps)

everything is set to default
and adjust source media to match render settings is checked…and blend for interlace…and gausian for blur

What render template are you using? (exact name)

=NTSC DV Widescreen match project settings

source media files
Format: vegas pro project
Attributes:720x480x32
Frame rate:29.970 ntsc
Field order:lower field first
Pixel aspect ratio:1.2121 ntsc widescreen

thanks so much for your help

[John Rofrano]

the previous footage has bars on the top and bottom…

This is your problem. 16:9 footage does not have black bars. 4:3 footage that fakes 16:9 has black bars. If your footage was really 16:9 there would be no black bars in a DV Widescreen project. It sounds like the footage that does not have black bars is the real 16:9 footage. You need to fix the footage that has the black bars to not have them… not the other way around.

source media files
Format: vegas pro project

That is not a media file. That is a Vegas project .veg file. You need to look at the actual raw media files and find out what their properties are. Open that .veg file and find out what’s inside it.

What is your actual source? Is it SD or HD? AVI, M2T, MOV? What camera (make/model) did it come from?

~jr

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