[Victor Wedge]

Yes, that is correct, the Custom button is greyed out at that point.

[Victor Wedge]

To my knowledge, no new codecs installed since Vegas.

As a last resort, I will uninstall/re-install as you suggest. I was hoping the problem might be something I was doing wrong as a novice user, and to find out what that error was. On the other hand, I’m not a computer newbie, so it wouldn’t say much for Vegas if it were so difficult to do something so simple as to get a rendered file the same dimensions (without borders) as the source file.

Because I’m not eager to do the reinstall … is there anything else I might try? More info I can provide to help diagnose the problem?

[Victor Wedge]

Yes.

[Victor Wedge]

Oops, typo above, I meant m2ts, not m25s.

[Victor Wedge]

I’m not using DVDA templates by choice. That’s just the only way I’ve been able to render without reducing the image area and adding four bars.

Step by Step …
Make Movie > Save it to my hard drive > MPEG 2/DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen > Advanced Render …

At this point, the ‘render as’ dialog box shows me saving as mp4, not mpg as I selected in the previous box. Change ‘Save as type’ to MPEG-2.

Description shows Audio: None, and the “Custom” button is greyed out.

To recap:
Type: MPEG2
Template: DVDA NTSC Widescreen
Produces an output file with the same dimensions as the source file, and with no bars … and NO Audio. I’ve tried multiple other combinations which all result in four bars surrounding the output file.

I’m sure the answer is so simple that I’m overlooking it. I hope.

I have video files in two formats which I wish to process, mpg and m25s. All I ask of the program is that I can output the finished video with the same dimensions as the source file, and without BARS around it.

@Mike Kujbida: Yes, both of my cameras are widescreen.

Thanks for any help.

Victor