Black border on preview screen......

zengeneral · Post by **zengeneral** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:29 pm

ok, my problem is that when i capture from my camcorder, and open it in VS it fills the preview screen to the left on the interface, , then something happens and i have a black border all round mt video, this is before i have edited, whats making the video change size, and how can I change my captured video fill that preview screen????

To be honest this software throws up more problems than I can handle, and i`ll probably bin it before long. Its driving me mad

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:38 pm

We need more info. Such as, what are your clip and project properties (are you recording in 16:9 mode but your project setting may be 4:3)? Are the black borders on all 4 sides, or only 2?

What are some of your other problems?

zengeneral · Post by **zengeneral** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:56 pm

Thanks for your quick reply, I have sorted this problem, somehow its changing from avi to mpeg in the project properties menu, but why?
Other problems including closing an edited file using save as, then not being able to reload the file eg: File format mismatch!, under sharing creating my file, then having it crash at 99%, not being able to load my images, the same file format mismatch coming up frequently, i`m pretty savvy with computers, but i`ve only been using this software for 3 days, and its driving me nuts

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:02 pm

Let's start here. Give that a read and then respond with as much of the requested info as possible.

Let's work on one problem at a time - we'll start with the properties changing, since that's the first problem that you hit, and it may cure your others.