Why does my bum look fat?

Pigskin wrote on 2/18/2005, 9:49 AM

How come when I render a project I get black borders at the top and bottom of the picture? My project is DVD PAL 720x576 and looks fine in the preview, then I render to DVD PAL 720x576(No change) and black borders are introduced, which in turn, introduces a slight compression to the height of the picture.
I realise that these borders won't be seen when played back through a TV, but the compressed picture is annoying!

Any ideas, anyone?

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John_Cline wrote on 2/18/2005, 10:20 AM

Well, PAL is 720x576, not 720x564.

Pigskin wrote on 2/18/2005, 11:32 AM

Thanks, type error! But any suggestions as to what's going on in Vegas?

riredale wrote on 2/18/2005, 11:38 AM

Maybe it's not Vegas; you might want to lay off those ice cream bars for a while.

Sorry; couldn't resist. I don't know much about DVD-A, but is there a setting where it thinks you're trying to display 16x9?

John_Cline wrote on 2/18/2005, 11:59 AM

It sounds like at some point in the process that the pixel aspect ratio is set to square (1.0000) pixels instead of PAL DV (1.0926). Check your clips by right-clicking on the clip and going to "Properties" > "Media" tab > "Pixel Aspect Ratio." Make sure they are "PAL DV." Check your project settings and then check the MPEG2 render settings. Make sure that Aspect Ratio is set to "4:3 Display" and not "Square Pixels."

John

Pigskin wrote on 2/18/2005, 12:03 PM

That's quite alright riredale, it was a solid gold invitation if ever I saw one!
Don't know what DVD-A has to do with anything though!!