Ron,

As far as I know the warning is there to inform you there might be issues with the black bars showing at the edges of non conforming sizes.

I, like you, use a combination of various sizes in all my projects. If I dont want the black bars to show, I resize the clip/image to fill the complete screen. I, personally, do not crop images to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio before using. I just place them on the timeline, resize to fit the screen, then move the image around to get the shot I want.

I have never experienced any problems using this approach.

Hal


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Thanks Hal ... looks like I am doing the right thing then.
I personally have not had any problems with this approach or in the final dvd version ... plays correctly on my and others dvd players eg no 'short fat and hairy or long and thin people versions'. One of our long distance friends though gets the 'stretch version' so it must simply be their TV/DVD Player set up. I will try to guide them to fix it.
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Hi,
What I have done in my projects containing 4:3 ratio images/video in a 16;9 project is to overlay a PIP object that covers the black bars and corresponds to the theme (so to speak). Jim
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Good idea, Jim. CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
Someone famous once said: "We only have the 4th dimension of 'time' so that everything does not all happen at once"

What I do is put a 16:9 Background image for the entire production. I put that image on Track 1 and all of the rest of the Videos on tracks 2 and up.

What that does, is if there are 4:3 or less that 16:9 wide images, the background will show behind where there would be Black bars.

The Background image can be anything from a plain color board or a fancy design. I like Clouds for some of my videos.

I go outside when there is a sky full of clouds and shoot 16:9 images. My Digital camera has 16:9 setting. Also, my Video Camera will shoot 16:9 stills.

Here is an example of that technique on Director Zone:
http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/video/11914550

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That is neat Carl ... I'm sold!
I forgot you can streeeetch most images over an entire project.
Being forgetful, I better now go and check if you can add a new Track 1 on top of everything else after doing all the editing
Thanks for this memory jog
Ron CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
Someone famous once said: "We only have the 4th dimension of 'time' so that everything does not all happen at once"

I have used the 16:9 backdrop many times to fill in 4:3 projects. Usually I will blur the image and add a barely detectable motion path. This, I find, does not distract from the focus of the image or video subject.
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