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    XL1, black bars on right and left?

    Posted by Todd Schmidt on August 9, 2007 at 9:18 pm

    Hi,

    I have a used XL1. For some reason I’m not getting a full 720×480 resolution. There are black bars on both the right and left sides. Is this a camera problem or is there a workaround or am I just doing something wrong? For now I actually stretched out just the horizontal to fit in AE but I’m losing quality that way.

    Thanks,

    Todd

    Alexander Kallas replied 18 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Alexander Kallas

    August 12, 2007 at 11:27 am

    .[Todd] ” For now I actually stretched out just the horizontal to fit in AE but I’m losing quality that way.
    “
    Don’t, you are distorting the picture. Leave it as is.
    The black bars are in the overscan area and won’t show on a TV.
    You are getting full 480×720 res. this is how the Canon DV cameras do it, they
    ignore the overscan area.

    Cheers
    Alexander

  • Todd Schmidt

    August 13, 2007 at 12:32 am

    Thanks! Yeah, I knew I was distorting it, but besides the output to DVD I also have my videos on the web so that overscan shows up. I’m just gonna mask the web videos.

    Thanks!

    Todd

  • Alexander Kallas

    August 13, 2007 at 7:45 am

    Use Compressor to crop out that overscan and encode for web at the same time, no masking necessary.

    Cheers
    Alexander

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