[Jeremy Montgomery]

Okay, just thought I would update and see if anyone can still offer some advice.

I’m trying to convert HD 1280×720 shots into SD 720×576.

I’ve decided to go with 16:9 option, as opposed to letterbox, so the shots become anamorphic.

It all almost seems to work, but there are small black lines on each side which does not fill out to the width of screen as it does when I’m editing the actual HD files. I can get rid of them by increasing the footage size and then squishing it down, but I don’t want to have to do that for every single shot. As each episode is 400 shots and there are 26 episodes.

Anyone have any thoughts?