Black zones on top and bottom of preview screen

baroblik · Post by **baroblik** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:40 pm

I have black zones on top and bottom of preview screen on my project.

I dont know how they appeared...

One day everything was OK and the next day, they were there ??

My setting is 3:4 ratio.

Have I done something wrong ??

How can I remove them ?

I use VS8

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:29 pm

How did you end up with 3:4 ratio? The normal one is 4:3... At any rate, go into File > Project Properties, and check the format which appears. You need to do this for both MPEG and AVI. If it is now 16:9, then click on the Edit button and select the General tab. Towards the bottom you can change the aspect ratio between 4:3 and 16:9 (but not 3:4)!!

Or are you using video which came from a widescreen source: either a widescreen video camera or ripped from a widescreen DVD?

baroblik · Post by **baroblik** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:32 pm

Thank you for your answer...of course, I meant a 4:3 ratio

...my mistake.
My present setup is 4:3...what is curious is that my project was OK for a while...then this

This is what say to me that something has been change somehow.

The only thing I did recently in video, except my project, was to download VS9 to try it. Is is great but I want to wait later so I desinstalled it.

Any idea ?

Thank you !

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:02 pm

What happened is that when you uninstalled VS9 TBYB, it took somethings that VS8 used with it.

Do you have the Full install CD? If so go to Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs, scroll down to VS8 and do a Repair. If you have the ESD (download version) then you will have to re-install it.

Ron P.

baroblik · Post by **baroblik** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:59 pm

Thank you Ron.

I made a REPAIR with my full install disk.

Unfortunately, Those black bars are still there.

They are not so big thowh, so maybe they wont appear in my render.
I will give a try...

Excuse my english. My native language is french...hope you understand

Baroblik

sage · Post by **sage** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:22 pm

baroblik ...

I am using VS10. If you go to File > Project Properties
... it says Project template properties ... Edit file format:
On the drop down menu, it has options to select MPEG files or AVI files...
I notice when I select AVI files - my preview screen shows the black reveal bars.
When I select MPEG files, the black bars are gone.

I hope this will be helpful to you.