Full Screen in Videostudio 6

[bammike]

I am using files from the Diamond GC1000 that I purchased to capture video from my Motorola Cable box. The box will not let me capture with the HDMI output, so I am using the YPbPr outputs, which leaves me with a 720p video file. When I process it, it comes out with a black border on all sides of the video, and the video does not fill the screen on my flat screen TV. Does anyone have a way to fix this? I also tried using the capture option in Videostudio with the GC1000, and all I get is a screen with color bars.

Mike

[BrianCee]

What output format did you set and in particular what frame size.

[Ken Berry]

And what program did you use for the original capture which produced the 720p footage (since it appears that you only used Video Studio as a second option which failed)? Note that many capture devices are tweaked to work only -- or work best -- with the software supplied by the hardware manufacturer.

I am also a little surprised that your 720p footage does not fill your TV screen fully. I have made a number of 720p videos in the past week which all fill my 46" Samsung HDTV screen fully -- and with the ones with higher bitrate, at very good quality too. I used mainly the preset 720p templates in VS, including AVCHD, MP4 and WMV.

[erdna]

Can You connect the Y signal of the component signal straight to the composite input (yellow connecter) of yout flatscreen? You will get a black and white picture, but do you get full screen?

[bammike]

I am using Diamond Video Capture to capture the video, there are not many options to select. The bitrate is set at 4052 kbps. It only captures to .TS format.


Mike

[erdna]

My suggestion was to veryfy what's comming out on yr component output on the HD STB. So capturing is not involved. The reason for this is because I know that some HD STB's do not reconstruct the formattiong info (Wide screen signalling on line 23 called WSSL23) In this case your capture device wil not create an MPEG2 stream, containing the right info in its video header. You will have to correct manually.

[bammike]

How do I correct it manually? Is there software that does that?

Mike

[erdna]

Yes, put your video onto the overlay track and adjust size

[bammike]

I tried putting the Y output into the video input on my TV, and got no signal at all.

Mike

[erdna]

Did you select "composite"? (not component)