• VEGAS Pro

  Vertical black bars on either side of 16:9 rendered Mpeg2 files

  Posted by Keith Malone on February 20, 2008 at 1:12 pm

  I have been trying to render EX1 clips (shot at full res HQ, PAL, 25fps) using Vegas 8.0b.

  When rendering SD 16:9 footage, I used to use the default PAL DVDA widescreen template and the video would render with the correct aspect ratio. However, when I render the EX1 clips down to a standard definition MPEG2 file, it plays back with an incorrect aspect ratio via Windows Media Player. It looks like it is squashed into 4:3.

  When I load the MPEG2 file into a PAL Widescreen DVDA project, the thin black bars are placed either side of the frame and I can’t figure out how to get rid of them.

  I think I have tried every combination of setting that involve aspect ratio (via the project properties and the template properties). I have also tried ticking the stretch video to fill output frame size box.

  I have also tried to specify 1.777 as the aspect ratio.

  I only received my EX1 2 days ago so I apologise if I am missing something obvious. Did anyone have a similar issue and how did you resolve it?

  thanks in advance,
  Keith

  Keith Malone replied 18 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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