Panasonic camcorder 16:9 problem
Now, this 16:9 footage is OK when watching it on the camcorder's LCD, it has black bars at the top and bottom. But when capturing it to my hard disk, a second pair of black bars is added to the image, vertically compressing the video and covering about 1/4 of the top and bottom of the screen with black bars. I've tried playing around with the camera's settings when capturing, tried 2 versions of Video Studio and 2 versions of Scenalyzer for capturing, nothing helps.
Anyone an idea?
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$2 Answers
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26788
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic
Also, playback can control the vertical bars you are seeing. There is some good information on
http://www.cnet.com/1991-7874_1-5140690-4.html
For further investigation it would help if you gave the model number of your camcorder. Good luck!
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
When your video camera is set to 16x9 it's really recording 4x3 and putting black bars in the video.
Then if you import the video and tell your computer it's 16x9 it is stretching it out to 16x9 aspect ratio, which compresses the video vertically.
So tell the software you're in that you are using 4x3 video and then it should look proper. If you need true 16x9 then you could possibly crop out the black bars and export it as 16x9 but that's pretty advanced and most video editing software can't do that.
Hope that helps.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
M$
Thanks for the answers so far. For completeness, I am capturing in 4:3 mode and tried 16:9 as well, makes no difference.
The camera is a Panasonic NV-DS38EG.
What I suspect is that it shoots footage in 4:3 and replaces top and bottom with black bars to simulate 16:9. Then sets some kind of 16:9 flag in the output stream, which is interpreted by the capturing SW which switches a 4:3 format with black bars to a real 16:9. But that's just a guess.
