[Jeff Garrett]

Yeah they are both set to Mic but I am wondering if something internally is forcing it to line or something like that. Though I retain hope that there is some sort of way I can “reboot” it to working again.

[Jeff Garrett]

Thanks I will try that out. Good advice about the paying gigs, though I should say it is more of a potential dvd sale thing that I volunteered to do for a share of the profits, so I can’t think of a better way to motivate myself and get experience. If I fail, worst case scenario is there is no dvd, but still an opportunity I couldn’t let pass after buying my first camera – HMC150. Could do a fine job in PPro but why not walk the extra mile and dabble in AE.

Thanks for the help.

[Jeff Garrett]

I see, thank you.

If I do change the resolution to 720×480 on the MPEG2 non-dvd export I will get the black bars. However, if I simply bump it to 721×480 they instantly disappear, so I don’t even have to crop 8 pixels, though this cannot be done on the dvd obviously. I guess I am just confused because you don’t see these bars on any professional dvd, yet I highly doubt they cropped and risked distorting the image to do it. Whenever I watch a dvd on my pc monitor I don’t see these bars, but on my dvd’s I do. I should also note that the blu-ray exports do not have this problem.

Here are 3 shots.

1. MPEG2 720×480

2. MPEG2 721×480

3. MPEG2-DVD

[Jeff Garrett]

Thanks.

But is there a reason why this only occurs on the MPEG2-DVD and DVD folder export on encore, and not the computer MPEG2 (or any other filetype export) for that matter?

If it was just due to the British Standard than why would it alter the NTSC output and not just the PAL output?