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  • Why does some of my video clips in my video look smaller on different computers?

    Posted by Christopher Fodde on February 21, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    I’ve been very confused why my videos are sometimes smaller on different computers.

    I was making a highlight tape for a teammate and I was making it 1080 by 720 and some not all the clips are smaller than that so I put (Scale to Frame Size) and I export it and it worked perfect then I played on another computer and it worked fine but when I did it on my friends computer there was black spaces like if I never Scaled it to Frame size! Its not only his computer it has happened on other computers and I’m confused because it works perfect some computers and some not.

    Tero Ahlfors replied 13 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Kris Merkel

    February 21, 2013 at 7:08 pm

    Are you ecoding the video through AME? And, do you mean 1280 x720?

    Please share your encoding settings and that might shed some light on what is going on.

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  • Christopher Fodde

    February 21, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    No I just use the export in Premiere but is there a monitor setting that this happens because on a lot of different computers it works perfect none of the clips are shrunk but there are some computers that this issue happens one of the computers was outdated.

  • Kris Merkel

    February 21, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    It’s really hard to tell exactly what is going on with the encoded file if we do not know what your encoding settings are. Please share your settings from the PrPro export panel and maybe someone here can help you out.

    “Think of everything in terms of building capacity.”

    Kris Merkel
    twitter: @kris_merkel
    Product Manager, Flanders Scientific Inc.
    http://www.shopfsi.com
    Co-Founder, Atlanta Cutters Post Production User Group
    http://www.atlantacutters.com

    2.2Ghz MBP core i7
    16Gb RAM
    CS6/FCP7
    AJA T-Tap
    AJA IO XT
    FSI LM-2461W/CM-170W



  • Andrew James

    February 22, 2013 at 2:39 am

    It depends on the extension of your video. Better to choose compatible extension to make the quality of your video. Salt lake City Studio

  • Tero Ahlfors

    February 22, 2013 at 12:25 pm

    If you make 16:9 footage and you’re watching it on a 4:3 or 16:10 display it will be letterboxed.

  • Christopher Fodde

    February 23, 2013 at 3:07 am

    Oh that make sense and also my export setting was the setting it came with I didn’t customize it.

    Also is there a way to fix this so that this doesn’t happen

  • Tero Ahlfors

    February 23, 2013 at 7:15 am

    [Christopher Fodde] “Also is there a way to fix this so that this doesn’t happen”

    Have all of your clients buy a monitor of every possible aspect ratio in the world. Or not. There isn’t nothing to “fix” here.

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