640x480 - 720x480 bars on the sides.

[brucefl]

Doing a project, you think I would remember by now

Anyways, have black borders on the sides when capturing from vcr through canopus 110. I do the DV
The bars are because of the 720?
Will this change when I burn to a dvd?

I don't really recall seeing the black bars on the side before. But going back and forth through a few different processes (vcr, camcorder, DV) things can get changed or (forgotten)

thanks

[etech6355]

720 is standard and correct. It sounds like you just need to use the correct aspect ratio for you project settings. <ALT+ENTER> (Hotkey).

It depends on your project settings.
If you have black bars on the sides of the preview screen & the picture looks proportionately correct then your source video is 4:3 & your project is set to 16:9. So change your project settings to 16:9.

If the picture is streched vertically then your source is 16:9 and your project settings are 4:3.
Always make your "Project Settings" the same as your source aspect ratio videos.

Under "Preferences" make sure to check "ON" ->"Show message when inserting first video clip into the timeline"
If your capturing DV then there is nothing to set for capturing except for DV-Type1 or DV-Type2. If you capturing analog (mpeg), then you have to make sure your aspect ratio settings as correct and match the source video.

[brucefl]

HI, when I capture video it has a black bar on each side of the video. The properties are
NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 8000 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48000 Hz, Stereo

Which I believe are correct. Should this look correct in the editing mode?
thanks Bruce