Hi, I'm new to this board.
Me and some friends are working on a movie and for editing we are using Adobe Premiere Pro and we're filming all our material in 16:9 format. But recently we've encountered a strange problem while importing the clips from the camera, while most of it looks fine, some of the clips are getting black borders to the left and right, this border gets even thicker if the project is set to PAL rather than NSTC. The only difference I can find between the clips is in the description in the "project" window where it says "movie 720 x 576 (1.4)" for the working clips and "movie 720 x 576 (1.1)" for the non-working. But I haven't been able to find any settings for changing this. Does anybody know how to solve this problem?
Have you got your monitor windows set to 100%? If it's less than 100% each clip will appear with a black frame around it. Other than that, this could be something to do with overscan which is an area around your footage which won't be visible anyway when outputted to a TV??
I may be completely off here, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I am...
Anyway, assuming you're shooting DV, it sounds like you need to set Premiere's setting to 720x480. Even though you're shooting '16:9', most cameras don't shoot a true 16:9 (well, maybe you're using an XL2, which I believe does shoot true 16:9), rather they shoot an electronically adjusted 4:3. So if your current setting in Premiere is 720x576, you're winding up with 48 pixels of black on either side of your footage.
Here's a page I found for adjusting settings in Premiere Pro...
?url? http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/premprosetup.html?/url?
I don't think that's it as some of the imported clips works just fine, I'll try to import some of the working clips again the next time we're editing (should be this friday), if they show the same symptoms it's probably because of some settings in Premiere Pro that I may have accidently changed. Otherwise it has to be some settings in the camera. By the way, my tapes are all PAL so the footage resolution is in fact 720x576.
ahh... PAL.
Didn't realize, sorry 'bout that. If I come across something similar to your problem in my net travels, I'll pass it along.
