Pal Widescreen

[RJ Johnston]

Regarding the red line, were any effects applied to the clip? Maybe you accidentally moved the opacity bar?

[Helen]

I have a couple more of screen shots using this clip and not sure if this will confuse the whole thing a bit more.

I don't normally have "Scale to Frame Size" checked and I confirmed that it is not checked

I deleted the original clip from the project in case I accidently did change opacity or something and then I brought the same clip into the project again. The first screen shot is of the clip in my Widescreen project and notice that there is a red line above the clip. I thought I would experiment and I brought the clip into a project that I am currently using to capture old tapes. This project is in Pal standard format and notice that there is NO red line above the clip.

Very strange me thinks. Edit: I just created a new widescreen project in case there was something wrong with the old one and I can confirm that nothing changed. There is still a red line above the clip

Widescreen Screen in Wide Pal.jpg

Widescreen Screen in Standard Pal.jpg

[Chuck Engels]

Yup, that's the fake widescreen of the old SD DV Camcorders
Cuts off the top and bottom to make it look like widescreen which it really isn't.
It is just standard DV footage with the top and bottom cut off.

[Chris B]

As a quick though if you know exactly what camera the original was taken on we might be able to find a manual to confirm that this is what's going on here.

[Helen]

Glad to know that there is nothing wrong with my project settings.

Chris, I don't think I will be able to find out what sort of camera it was taken on. I was given the tape by someone else and they got the tape of another person as well. It has some footage of my daughter and her friends rock climbing at a school camp and I plan to use parts of it for the presentation that I am making for her 21st.

Thanks for everyone's help.