Hey, I'm using msp 8.0
I'm having a problem with the widscreen. I'm working with mpegs and what happened is.
I made some video files and once they were finished the video had the widescreen bars on the top and the bottom. But then when I work with the files and edit then create a video MSP added another widescreen bars to the video. So I have 2 widescreen bars instead of one.
How do I get smp to not add widescreen?(I've asked before but it didn't work)
I thought I could finish the video then throw a moving path and strech the video so it looks normal in the end. Which would work until...
Some of the video files I'm working with don't have the widscreen bars on them and when I create the video with msp it doesn't add the widescreen bars.
How do I add widescreen bars?
In a pickle...Da Bear
Widescreen issue 2questions
What you were working with in the beginning was not real wide screen (16:9)... they were real 16:9 files that were captured as straight NTSC (4:3)... or PAL as the case maybe. In other words, a 16:9 screen WITHIN a 4:3 screen.
What you have done (I believe anyway) is choose the wrong template... a widescreen template, when you are actually working with a normal 4:3 ntsc (or pal) signal.
So you now have a 16:9 screen in a 4:3 screen, which is in turn all in a 16:9 screen.
I would suggest that you use a normal 4:3 template but it also sounds like you are working with some unconverted 16:9 clips also.
In Avid liquid there is a 16:9 "keep aspect" button that takes care of this, but I am just starting out with MSP so I am guessing here, but it seems to me that if you use the 4:3 template, place your clips with the bars on the timeline, use pan and zoom to get rid of the bars, (you will clip some of the sides off), get rid of the bars, render this through... then import the rendered clips again... you should have them all matching so now you can use a 16:9 template.
(Try a short test strip first so you don't waste oodles of time if my stab in the dark guess does not pay off!!!)
What you have done (I believe anyway) is choose the wrong template... a widescreen template, when you are actually working with a normal 4:3 ntsc (or pal) signal.
So you now have a 16:9 screen in a 4:3 screen, which is in turn all in a 16:9 screen.
I would suggest that you use a normal 4:3 template but it also sounds like you are working with some unconverted 16:9 clips also.
In Avid liquid there is a 16:9 "keep aspect" button that takes care of this, but I am just starting out with MSP so I am guessing here, but it seems to me that if you use the 4:3 template, place your clips with the bars on the timeline, use pan and zoom to get rid of the bars, (you will clip some of the sides off), get rid of the bars, render this through... then import the rendered clips again... you should have them all matching so now you can use a 16:9 template.
(Try a short test strip first so you don't waste oodles of time if my stab in the dark guess does not pay off!!!)