One of my movie students has an archive of old family movie film, taken about 35-40 years ago, that he's had converted to digital files and is now generating X9 projects to make movies of them for family distribution. He says, on the initial creation, that the 40-year afterview has most of them fascinated.
But there are few issues that have arisen, and this post covers 2 of them which I'd appreciate some answers to from the more experienced users. I've taken some screen shots to illustrate them.
1st issue - black border around image
The converted files show a square image, which seems reasonable as the film exposure was basically square, back then. But the conversion has delivered a black border all around that image which is part of the file, and I've not found a way to remove the border. This is a snapshot of one clip in the project file illustrating this. The clip properties panel is relevant to issue 2.
Is there a way to eliminate the black border without impacting the image?
2nd issue - NTSC format in render panel]
I stumbled on this as part of a discussion of the options available to render the project file: as project properties of as MPEG-2 (which are essentially the same - I thought). As part of the render panel, the output format is indicated as NTSC, per this screen shot
If one wants - for some reason - to render in that MPEG-2 format, is there a way to force the format to PAL? Other than ticking the project properties box?
