HELP!!!
I posted this in the wrong forum so i will copy and paste everything i did from the old on and hopefully someone can help me!!
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Help me!! When I post my videos to youtube, the actual video is in a little rectangle on the page and there are black bars on the top and sides of the video.
The camera im using is the Canon Vixia HF200 and when i upload the videos straight from the camera to you tube, its full screen, HD and perfect like this
and can go up to 1080p
However when I start editing in Vegas it ends up like this:
I probably should also add, I render the videos as avi, so that in editing the playback isnt choppy because the video is so HD. I tryied to change the aspect ratio, and even on the video, Right clicked, properties, then unchecked "maintain aspect ratio" but no dice.
HELP!!
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Then I did some stuff people suggested and here is my response:
i did the settings you suggested and here is a screen cap of the changes... the 2nd pictures really should be the first one but here
http://i30.tinypic.com/pm0lj.jpg
then i took some test footage of textured objects in my house to see if they are maintaining quality, and they arent. severely arent. i did what you said and here is the finished product:

its really blurry. For some reason when i went looking for the "internet 16x9 HD 30p" I couldnt find it, so i assumed you were talking about youtube?
Then i changed another setting. Rendered avi format with a HD 1080-60i YUV , and it was perfect. Fulls screen and maintained HD quality, problem is that 40-second video took up 5 1/2 GB of space!
Is there any way to compress that ^ to a reasonable size without changing the aspect ratio yet again?
I posted this in the wrong forum so i will copy and paste everything i did from the old on and hopefully someone can help me!!
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Help me!! When I post my videos to youtube, the actual video is in a little rectangle on the page and there are black bars on the top and sides of the video.
The camera im using is the Canon Vixia HF200 and when i upload the videos straight from the camera to you tube, its full screen, HD and perfect like this

However when I start editing in Vegas it ends up like this:

I probably should also add, I render the videos as avi, so that in editing the playback isnt choppy because the video is so HD. I tryied to change the aspect ratio, and even on the video, Right clicked, properties, then unchecked "maintain aspect ratio" but no dice.
HELP!!
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Then I did some stuff people suggested and here is my response:
i did the settings you suggested and here is a screen cap of the changes... the 2nd pictures really should be the first one but here
http://i30.tinypic.com/pm0lj.jpg
then i took some test footage of textured objects in my house to see if they are maintaining quality, and they arent. severely arent. i did what you said and here is the finished product:

its really blurry. For some reason when i went looking for the "internet 16x9 HD 30p" I couldnt find it, so i assumed you were talking about youtube?
Then i changed another setting. Rendered avi format with a HD 1080-60i YUV , and it was perfect. Fulls screen and maintained HD quality, problem is that 40-second video took up 5 1/2 GB of space!
Is there any way to compress that ^ to a reasonable size without changing the aspect ratio yet again?