[Malcolm Jackson]

Interesting bunch of comments! Thanks all for your input. For the record the bars are not there when uploaded to youtube – however if you want to show that youtube clip on your own site at 320×240 again the bars reappear.

The workarounds were great. Especially the size jiggering in the properties in QT Pro. I have not tried uploading that to youtube and seeing the results when rescaled to 320×240, I’ll try it out sometime.

I don’t think its a camera issue Alexander, i think its to do with the DV size of 720×480, its not true 4×3 is it? true 4×3 would be 720×540, no? And when you give the footage a little extra height ad 320×240 it does indeed expand to the full screen and the bars disappear, so something like this makes sense to me as at least a partial understanding.

Anyhow, problem solved for now. Thanks guys and gals.

Moving Images for Calm People
Oh, just my reel.

[Malcolm Jackson]

Thanks for your response shane. I hear you. Have you seen this before?

The strangest thing about this is that I was seeing the individual files, the correct individual files at one time, but as I opened them and watched them, the filing system slowly got confused. Very strange.

Also, I wondered if it was something to do with Lacie drives just not doing their thing in the right way?

Moving Images for Calm People
http://www.deepplanetarts.com/reel

[Malcolm Jackson]

Thanks for trying that out. It worked for me too! Yea! I don’t get the logic of it though. Like one has to trick it out of constraining itself of something. Anyhow, very much appreciated. Thank you!

Moving Images for Calm People
http://www.deepplanetarts.com/reel

[Malcolm Jackson]

Thanks Don, what you say makes complete sense. And it’s not anamorphic, its regular 720×480 DV.

However its just not downsizing to 320×240 without small sidebars (around 12 to 15 pixels each side). Conceptually I think its something to do with it being DV footage, but I don’t understand it as yet.