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[Oscarface]

Hello,

Recently I had a friend shoot an event for me with his XH-A1 video camera. I just captured the footage into my computer using my HV20, and during capturing with Roxio Media Import (Included with my ECM 10 package), it says on the side that it's capturing as:

Best quality (MPEG2), 144x1080

Once captured I opened a new Videowave project, selecting 16:9, since that's what the footage should be and that's what I want it to burn as, and then imported the captured footage into the project.

Now usually when I choose a 16:9 project, and have 16:9 footage, the black bars on the top and bottom show up on the preview in Videowave, so I thought something might be up. And sure enough, the footage seems to have been captured/burned as 4:3. I do not have a 16:9 television, but there are no black bars on my 4:3 television.

I'm pretty new to working with HD, but isn't it supposed to always be 16:9? How can I capture/burn my HD footage so that it comes out 16:9 as it should be?

[Jim_Hardin]

Yes it works fine but it seems every camcorder manufacture has their own personal definition of Widescreen and it change every other week…

In VideoWave, try File - Production Settings and set the ‘Default handling for non-4:3 sources:’ to Fill Screen.

You will have to add the file again for that to take effect.

[Oscarface]

Yes it works fine but it seems every camcorder manufacture has their own personal definition of Widescreen and it change every other week…

In VideoWave, try File - Production Settings and set the ‘Default handling for non-4:3 sources:’ to Fill Screen.

You will have to add the file again for that to take effect.

Thank you for your suggestion. This time it turns out that the settings on my DVD player were changed. I hit some buttons on my remote  and brought the black bars back. Not sure who changed it on me, but I'm glad it was a quick fix.

Weird though that the SD widescreen footage I worked with before showed the black bars during editing, and the HD doesn't, but like you said, it's probably because of the different widescreen settings from camcorder to camcorder.

Thanks again