Media Encoder Exports with Black Bars

[Eddie Lotter]

What is the pixel aspect ratio (PAR) of your source clip and of your export settings?

Cheers
Eddie

[Lillian Young]

Hi Eddie,

The video is 720×486, so aspect ratio should be 4:6. The export settings n the Media Encoder are the same as the source. I don’t see an option for adjusting the aspect ratio in Media Encoder.

The attached image shows the video settings.

And here are the Media Encoder export video settings:

[Eddie Lotter]

Your source PAR is 0.91 while your destination appears to be 1.0 which might be a limitation of the on2 codec, which I’m not familiar with. This would account for the black bars.

Cheers
Eddie

[Trey Yancy]

Outputting video from Premiere Pro / Encoder is an endless headache. No matter how I set up a project – ratio, pixels, anamorphic, whatever, I always have the issue with extremely black bars in one form or another. Premiere and Encoder appear to be fighting each other. After tearing my hair out for a year and a half, I ended up outputting uncompressed, dragging the result into AfterEffects outputting the uncompressed video and then to Compressor.
I have no idea why it has to be so complicated with PP/ME. If I set Encoder to use the project prefs, it comes out wrong and endless twiddling and quadruple checking of settings in both PP and ME do not provide a solution. I have yet to be able to output a file properly. I never had any issues over the years with Final Cut and Compressor – absolutely drop-dead easy. Frankly the black bar thing in various versions is the most common complaint on the web about PP/ME.

One thing I can’t do anything about is the camera where I’ve been during the past 18 months. They figure that a Rebel T3 DSLR is the cat’s meow for shooting serious video.

Is there some literature out there that makes this task as easy as it is with competing solutions? The documentation from Adobe is a patchwork.