[SOLVED] Horizontal Bars on Project Preview

RowanCroc wrote on 1/9/2022, 2:19 PM

Hi! I've been using Vegas Pro for a while now, previously on Pro 16, and now recently upgraded to Pro 19. I generally only make things in 1920x1080 24fps quality, since I mainly do art, and it's an easy fullscreen setting for video platforms. After upgrading, I noticed videos in this quality show up in the preview screen with black bars on their sides as if they're out of touch with the project dimensions. They export just fine, but appearing this way can make the editing process itself a bit troublesome because it can be sometimes hard to tell where the video begins and ends at the sides (eg. the video has a black or dark background to it). This didn't use to happen in Pro 16.

The preview also claims it's in the same dimensions as the video, as you can see in the image, but it doesn't show up this way. Text media, or any media I drag around, can pass over these bars as if they were part of the video itself. Is there any way to fix this so that the bars go away? Thanks. Here are the project properties in case they help. I'm on a Windows 10.

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j-v wrote on 1/9/2022, 2:27 PM

Depending your sourcefiles it may be wise to change the pixel aspect ratio to 1

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RowanCroc wrote on 1/9/2022, 2:33 PM

Ok looks like that was it! Must default differently with the update. Thanks so much!