Aspect Ratio - Black Bars Left and Right on Widescreen TV

Hi - I have downloaded a couple of TV series to my laptop PC using ITunes. These playback on my laptop screen filling the screen. I got an Apple TV yesterday, synced it with my Laptop ITunes library and there are black bars on either side of my 1080 widescreen TV. There are no black bars with DVD or Cable. The apple TV splash screen fills the whole of my widescreen. I have tried playing with the resolution settings on the TV and on my Apple TV settings but as yet not figured out how to fix this. Any ideas?

bear in mind that tv broadcasts are often stretched/zoomed/cropped etc to make it appear that it is widescreen, when really it is 4:3.
also it is possible that your TV is simply stretching to make it fill your screen.
your TV may be able to stretch it to fill the screen, but the appletv will always output it in the correct aspect ratio.
also it is only recently that most of the tv output has been widescreen. 6 years ago when wire season 1 was produced, 4:3 non-widescreen was very much the norm, especially in USA.

Similar Messages

Clips import with black edges left and right

I viewed my clip (avi file) using quicktime to confirm that it was the right one that i wanted to import and it looked fine. Then i imported into imovie and it doesn't fit the whole screen. It's got about 1/8 inch of black along the left and right. The weird thing is that when i import photos it does the same thing but i scale them to 102 % to correct. How can I correct this?

bear in mind that tv broadcasts are often stretched/zoomed/cropped etc to make it appear that it is widescreen, when really it is 4:3.
also it is possible that your TV is simply stretching to make it fill your screen.
your TV may be able to stretch it to fill the screen, but the appletv will always output it in the correct aspect ratio.
also it is only recently that most of the tv output has been widescreen. 6 years ago when wire season 1 was produced, 4:3 non-widescreen was very much the norm, especially in USA.

Resolution, Aspect Ratio & Black Bars! How to stretch screen?

Hi!
I have a HP HDX 9200 series laptop computer with an ATI 2600 HD XT and running latest Windows 7 Beta and I first noticed that my games didn't streched to full screen when they weren't using the native resolution on the LCD screen (1680*1050), so, let's say, when running one of them in 1024*768, I get two huge black bars at the side! Now, this didn't happen with previouses OSes (Vista). Then, I noticed that the same happened if I went to change the Windows resolution to 1024*768, I would get the same bars at the sides while being in Windows!
I tried downloading latest ATI W7 drivers to see if there was an option or something to stretch the image, but I couldn't find one.
Can you please let me know how to make the screen scale to the whole display, even if it isn't in the native resolution?
Thanks in advance.

HERE'S THE SOLUTION TO THE ATI BLACK BARS PROBLEM
It took months for me to find this on the web, so I thought I would share it here, the first hit for 'ATI Black Bars windows 7' on Google.
1) Open Catalyst Control Center
2) Use the drop down box at the top to click on Desktops and Displays
3) At the very bottom where your monitors are displayed, click on the little black arrow and click "Configure". Note that if configure does not appear, you are clicking on the wrong black triangle (you must use the one in the very bottom section).
4) This will bring up properties for that display. Choose "Full Screen" or "Maintain aspect ratio", whatever your preference. If you are getting black bars on all sides, you are likely on "Centered".
5) IF THE OPTIONS ARE GREYED OUT, as they were when I first tried this, the workaround is to lower your display resolution before attempting the above. Once you have changed the setting, you can return your display resolution back to whatever you like and the setting will remain as your display changes (movies, games, etc).
Hope that helps!!
This DOES NOT WORK for DirectX9-based ATI graphics devices on Windows 7. In fact, there is currently NO SOLUTION to this problem if you are using a DX9-based ATI graphics device on Windows 7.
ATI has refused to release any proper Windows 7 drivers for their DX9-based devices, so if you are running Windows 7 with such a device, then your only choice is to install the "legacy" Vista driver onto Windows 7.
If your computer is a laptop, this situation is made even more convoluted by the fact that ATI's driver packages refuse to install on laptops unless you use a third-party utility called "ATI Mobility Modder" to first modify ATI's driver package. Apparently ATI wants you to get the driver from your laptop manufacturer, but since most laptop manufacturers have not bothered to release newer video drivers that really isn't a reasonable expectation on ATI's part.
There is a bug in ATI's "legacy" Vista drivers on Windows 7 which hides the scaling/stretching options that should be present. Normally you would find these options under the "Notebook Panel Properties" node of the treeview in the Catalyst Control Center. They show up there fine using the same driver on Vista on the same hardware, but they are mysteriously absent when using the same driver on the same hardware on Windows 7.
It looks increasingly unlikely that ATI will EVER update their "legacy" drivers for their DX9-based graphics devices. It looks even more unlikely that they will ever develop proper Windws 7 drivers for these devices. Instead they are focusing all their efforts on their newer DX10-based devices and drivers.
This leaves users of laptops with DX9-based ATI graphics in a particularly frustrating and stupid situation.  DirectX 9 graphics devices are perfectly adequate for running Windows 7, and therefore they should have proper Windows 7 drivers released for them by the manufacturer (ATI). I shouldn't have to buy an entirely new laptop just so I can get a DX10-based video device just so I can get the stretching/scaling options in Windows 7. If this were a desktop PC, I could just swap out the video card, but that's not an option on a laptop.
Therefore, it falls on Microsoft to either (1) put pressure on ATI to fix their broken "legacy" Vista DX9 drivers to add back the scaling/stretching options when running on Windows 7, or (2) add an OS-level user option (independent of drivers) that can be used to control the resolution scaling/stretching.
My specific situation:
I have an HP Compaq 6910p laptop with the ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 graphics chipset (DX9-based). I am running Windows 7 x64 RTM. Neither ATI nor HP supply an official Windows 7 driver for this graphics chipset, and the driver supplied by Microsoft is bare-bones (no advanced options/settings like ATI's Catalyst Control Center offers). So I installed the latest (9.11) ATI "legacy" Vista x64 CCC package (after using ATI Mobility Modder to modify it so it will actually install on the laptop).
I run a lot of classic video game emulators and older games that use old 4:3 resolution modes like 800x600 or 1024x768. When they switch into these modes, I get huge black borders around all edges of the screen (top/bottom/left/right) and a tiny little viewable area right in the center of the screen. I have to squint to see anything. What I want -- and I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation at all -- is for the image to be stretched to fill the screen WITHOUT being distorted to change the aspect ratio. In other words, when I switch to any 4:3 mode (like 800x600) I expect the image to completely fill my screen vertically (all the way to the top and bottom edges) but with black bars along the left/right edges so that the aspect ratio is still truly 4:3. This is how I was able to make it work with Vista on this same laptop before, so I expect to be able to do the same thing using Windows 7. Unfortunately there is currently no way to do that, which completely destroys my abillity to use lower resolution modes comfortably on this laptop at all.
Well you can work past that actualy, but the option is annoying to do everytime since when i go to a lower resolution everything becomes blurry and so on.
Heres what you do when you use a dx9 graphics card.
1. lower you resolution one step down. I use 1680x1050 so i went to 1600x1024.
You should have the black bars lower bottom on the side different to everyone.
2. Since CCC dosnt give the scaeling option under "Notebook & Panel Properties" in Advanced View
    you change to basic and do it under Quick Settings.
3. take "Notebook & Panel Properties" on the right side in the box click on " Resize the desktop to fit the display panel" and click go change it to "Resize to fit the display panel"
NOTE. the trick is that it changes back automaticaly to "Do not resize" when you have your maximum resolution that is recommended by W7 thats why you need to take some other resolution.
I know its annoying to change it all the time but its the best there is right now and atleast you got the games fit to the screen and you can change the resolution back each time but then you got to do the resize with CCC again when you want to play some games.
Hope it was a help to you.

All of a sudden my screen has black bars on both the left and right sides; all of my folders are overlapping as well. Anyone know how to fix this?

All of a sudden my screen has black bars on both the left and right sides; all of my folders are overlapping as well. Anyone know how to fix this?

Did you try restart the Mac?

Black bar along the right side and the bottom of the screen- DV5-1007ca

I have DV5 1007ca running Vista Home Premium 32-bit.My computer seems to suddenly think my monitor is a different size. I have a 3-inch black bar down the right side of the screen and about a 1/4 inch black bar along the bottom. My windows are still fully functional and completely fill the portion of the screen that is active. There is no loss of image, it's just framed by the black bars. If I do a Print screen and paste it into a document, the black bars are not there. It's as if the computer thinks the screen is a different physical size. This situation is present all the time, even when starting up. This is what I have done so far: -adjusted screen resolution settings = no change-rolled back my display drivers = no change-re-updated my display drivers = no change-rolled back my BIOS = no change-re-updated my BIOS = no change-System recovery = no change I searched posts here and elsewhere but the results were inconclusive. A couple of posters reported a virtually identical problem and were told they needed to replace either their screens or their graphics cards. Unfortunately, none of those posters ever reported back so it was unclear whether or not the issue was resolved. I doubt it is the screen since screen problem symptoms usually involve bits of screen not working and parts of the display being lost. My screen seems to be working fine, it just thinks it's smaller than it is. The graphics card is highly suspect. What's funny is that a little while ago, I started up my computer without changing anything and all was well for about a week and then it went back to the same old issue. Any helpful advice would be appreciated. This issue is driving me nuts!

I found a real solution that is hardware related. I was given a laptop with this exact same problem for free since my friend thought it wasn't worth paying to repair a 3 year old laptop, and was dead for almost a year (I think they manufactured these in 2008, but HP has almost no specs or info about them, specially ours; DV5T-1100) I have the solution to this problem, and is a solution not found almost anywhere using Google, and HP support doesn't want to tell you, simply don't know, or would make them look bad. I was able to fix it myself by using a rework station (basically a dedicated hot air gun) that I used to "reflow" the graphics chipset's connection to the board (keep reading, because this method may vary on result details). This simply means that I opened the laptop, removed the copper heatsink connected to the fan to expose both the micro-processor, and the faulty graphics chipset, and started cutting soda cans, or thick tin foil to cover the areas AROUND the graphics chipset, and leave the graphics chipset exposed so that the really hot air would concentrate only on TOP of the graphics chipset. Then, I put the device on 220 degress, with the tip of the gun 2 inches over the chipset, and circled the gun around heating that sucker for 5 minutes, then I did a 3 minute rest to cool off, and a final 5 minutes reheat again. Luckily enough it WORKED!, and it has been working for almost 10 months with heavy use. HOWEVER... doing a "reflow" like this on a micro component isn't reallt a proper fix. Sure you may get lucky, and I read of instances where the fix lasted for years, but also just months. This is because the problem is the old solder that connects each "ball" point under the chip to the motherboard may have a micro ultra tiny imperfections and misconnections on a few or many of the connected points cause by a long period of overheat of the chip due to both, a very bad heatsink, and heatflow of heat inside the laptop, and also (and usually) really bad maintenance on the user's part by having a really dirty and dusty vents, overuse, and blocking the ventilation exhaust of the laptop itself over time. A proper fix of this chip issue is another process called "reballing", where they actually properly overheat that particular chipset so much using IR heat, and an expensive machine, to "loosen" the solder of all connections and remove the chip itself to both, clean the old solder on the chip, and the old solder left on the motherboard, and actually REPLACE all solder with new lead solder. However, this process has to be very precise (hence the machine), and it maybe costly, and there's also the fact that MANY scammers out there either never really do a true reballing, ans just do a reflow to scam you, or don't have the experience to do a proper reball of the chip. So whose at fault here? Uneducated users that neglect learning how to properly maintain a laptop off its main enemies (dust and heat) no matter how good the hardware heatsinks may be, or is it poor hardware design by the manufacturer, where other brands or even other families of series off the same brand have actually better noticeable hardware design than these DV series that are so notorious to overheat easier than others out there? Well, I don't know, but I do know that you should be VERY careful having these laptops repaired and be scammed, because hey! Even so called "refurbished" or even so called "brand new" entire motherboard out there on Ebay are just bad reflow jobs with little to no warranty on them on purpose, to only last a few months on purpose. So, watch out, and THINK! before spending money on a beat up poor donkey.

CM2320 unwanted black fading borders left and right

Hello,
I have a CM2320. When printing I get about 2-3cm wide of unwanted toner at the left and right edges.
At the edges it is pretty black and it is fading to the center of the page.
I ran the cleaning routine. The reference page printed after this is perfectly fine. Then when I print another page from software the problem is back.
Can anybody tell me what is likely causing this problem?
I was thinking about replacing the toners, but as these are rather costly it would be really nice to know in advance if this will have any effect, and if this problem can be solved at all.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Ronald

Hello there,
To get your issue more exposure, I would suggest posting it in the commercial forums since your product is a commercial product. You can do this at Commercial Forums.
Enjoy your day!
R a i n b o w 7000I work on behalf of HP
Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" at the bottom of this post to say
“Thanks” for helping!
Click “Accept as Solution” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution!

[Solved] On fullscreen flash videos (like on YouTube) there is a black bar on the right side of the screen, and I must click slightly to the right of onscreen buttons instead of directly on them while this is happening.

On fullscreen flash videos (like on YouTube) there is a black bar on the right side of the screen, and I must click slightly to the right of onscreen buttons instead of directly on them while this is happening. It's like I should click where they should be, not where they are. The exact same problem happens on Google Chrome, but not on Internet Explorer. It also happens on some games I installed like, "Crysis".

Nevermind, I solved the problem by downloading this:
http://www2.ati.com/DriVeRs/mobile/11-6_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe

When i turn on my Ipad air In the cornors of the Black Screen It has white stuff near the top bottom left and Right When it's all it turned on it's fine But when I go to a black Background It does the Same is this normal?

When i turn on my Ipad air In the corners of the Black Screen It has white stuff near the top bottom left and Right When it's all it turned on it's fine But when I go to a black Background It does the Same is this normal
It
I
O

when I turn on my ipad and the black screen comes on I have a slight white light running along the bottom meaning the whole screen is not black. Is ths normal.
better details Sorry
N

IPad2: After upgrad to iOS 8, video output lost left and right side

I have a cable for my iPad2, once plugged in the bottom slot, it outputs video to TV Component port and audio to my amplifier. It's been working for years. After iOS 8 upgrade, I notice the video output lost left and right side. It's like
[before iOS 8] Apple iPad is a wonderful product for me.
[after upgrade] iPad is a wonderful product
The "Apple" on the left, and "for me." on the right of screen is gone in output.

Change your Aspect Ratio on your TV to 16:9

Enlarged photos show white borders on left and right margins

Should these white margins be present when viewed in enlarged format? I can't get rid of these left and right margins when printing 4x6 borderless format so I assume it needs to be corrected in iphoto first.

Did you crop your photos?
Most digital cameras use a 3:4 aspect ratio. When you print onto 4X6 paper, you will have bands on the sides of the photos. It's the same thing as watching a "letterboxed" movie on television with the bands at the top and the bottom.

Converting 16X9 .dv to .avi, gets letterboxed at left and right

Hey Guys,
Anyone know how to retain 16X9 from .dv to .avi using MPEG Streamclip?
I'm using V1.9.2... tried different settings 5 times now... can't get it to stop squeezing the picture on the left and right.
Also, when I play new file back in RealPlayer (for Mac) the sound is missing. In MPEG Streamclip, it's there. (?)
Thanks!

Hey Guys,
Thanks Nick and Studio X for your help. Definitely using it to navigate through this.
Results so far: The aspect ratio issue is still not solved. To refresh... this is a 16X9 .dv file and I'm trying to retain that aspect ratio as I convert it to a PC playable file.
Following Nick's suggestion... I
1) Opened the original file (.dv file) in Quicktime and saved it with "Clean" as the chosen Presentation conform choice. Quicktime made a new file with the .mov extension (I noticed picture degradation at this point). Knowing I still have to get to an .avi file (per Nick's suggestion) I then
2) Encoded this .mov file as an .avi file with MPEG Streamclip, then to test I played the resulting .avi in RealPlayer for Mac (I'm slowly thinking using RealPlayer for Mac is not really a test, based on Studio X's comments, and FYI, even though I have WMP for Mac it won't open these files... not sure if that's expected or not).
Anyway, in RealPlayer the aspect ratio was still squeezed left and right (faces look tall). Playing the resulting file in MPEG Streamclip also has the same results... video is squeezed on the sides.
Another FYI... I did find a backdoor, quick and dirty solution in case anyone wants to know:
In the FILE menu of MPEG Streamclip, you choose a file type to export to. In the resulting window there are settings to adjust. To the right of the ZOOM setting is the X/Y setting, where you can type in any number. I tried a couple numbers to narrow it down... and 1.23 seems to be just right. This forces the aspect ratio of the new file (at least when tested in RealPlayer for Mac) to have the "shape" of 16X9. Don't know what the inadvertent consequences of doing this are, though. I'm sure this messes something up somewhere!
I will pay for Flipformac and let everyone know the results.
Gotta say, in 2010 it blows my mind there isn't a file type everyone in the world can just play, without these kind of issues. I feel like it's still 1995. This is like different CD player manufacturers allowing only certain types of CDs or DVDs to play in their CD or DVD players. We didn't choose to pain the consumers with that... we made CDs playable in all CD players. It makes sense!
A.
Message was edited by: Aaron Pillar

Cp 8 - How to add ppt slides to an existing project with space to the left and right ?

After much trial and error, i know exactly what I want. The priority for me is clear and unscaled captured video, and my project resolution shall be 1260x700.
now, i want to bring my ppt slides in and respect the aspect ratio- this means that there will be blank space to the left and right of the slides. The active area of the ppt slide should be about 700 h and 4/3 * 700 width. To avoid scaling, i would love them to be 699 x 932 and have the areas to the left and right blank. i am also willing to make my project 1260x702.
The objective here is to avoid scaling. I have seen that things look great when scaling is avoided.

Maybe you'll find some ideas here: Create and Use a "Knockout" Master Slide - Captivate blog

My ipod's music quality is inferior. It doesnt have the surround sound/ left and right audio channel unlike my brothers ipod? is there a problem with the chip?

I have an ipod touch 4g (8GB), I got this about 2.5 months ago, the same time my brother get his. My problem is that I noticed that audio quality is better on his device than mine. I have been listening to music and had different music devices before (non-Apple product and mobile phone) and the quality of music is better when I used to listen to those devices as well as my brother's ipod touch. Im referring to the left and right audio channels. Im not so good about the technical stuff but the best explanation I can give you is in a music or a movie, there's an effect wherein you can here a sound only at the left ear phone/speaker that you cant hear at the right earphone/speaker. I mean for example in a song, a guitar intro can be heared only at the left
ear while the background music plays on the other ear. Or when theres and echo effect on the song that alternates sound on the left and right ear. I hope youre getting what Im trying to say. Im bothered that my ipod is fake or has an internal problem on the chips or something because I didnt bought this at an Apple Center/Mac Center. I bought it on a retailer. I am not able to visit any store or Genius Bar or contact an apple specialist through phone because of my work schedule and work load. I have contacted the retailer before when I tried to return it for replacement or repair but he told me that it is under Apple's warranty, not theirs. I do hope that I can get a help from you because I want to really enjoy my device. Thank you and Im looking forward for the responce/assistance form you.

I suggest you don't apply pressure to the screen - it's a Touch - you touch the screen not push it.
Phil

? how to add page numbers in pages 5.2, starting with 2. Pages '09 had an option to not show folio on page one. Also any how to do left and right folios for a Tabloid? Many trhanks

? how to add page numbers in pages 5.2, starting with page 2. Pages '09 had an option to not show folio on page one. Also any idea how to do left and right folios for a Tabloid? Many thanks . . .

Hello jacquemac,
Your first question:
There might be a better way of achieving what you wish to do, but following these steps could help you out.
You might want to blend in Thumbnails and Invisibles either with (cmd+shift+i and cmd+alt+p) or over the View section in the Menubar.
1. go for Documents (right end of the Toolbar) -> Section
2. place your cursor at the very top of your second page and click "Create new Section->Starting with this page" in the side bar on your right.
(what you are actually doing next is setting the pagenumbers for each section you created. You can see your sections in the Thumbnail view.)
3. click on your first page (the first and only page of your first section) and mark the checkbox "Hide on first page of section"
4. click on your second page (the first page of your second section) and "Insert page number" -> start at 1
Your second question:
Im not quite sure i understand what exactly you want to do here. One page, two columns, each column with another page number? As far as i know this is not possible.
greetings jl

In Final Cut Pro X 10.1.1 I'm trying to separate left and right stereo tracks to delete left and pan right to centre. I cannot find a way to do this.

I record in stereo with a 10KHz tone down the left channel to defeat AGC on my camera and mic feed into the right channel. When I edit, I want to mute/delete the left channel and pan the right into the centre, to leave me with mono audio across both left and right. I could do this easily in FCP 6 but can find no way to do it in FCP X. I'm using the same source files. When I choose Dual Mono mode in the Audio Inspector, it mixes left and right and pushes the combined signal into both channels, giving me a mix of 10KHZ tone and audio in both left and right. Stereo mode shows me the two channels correctly with one driven hard (the tone) and the other at good voice levels. I just want to kill the left channel and pan the right to centre.
I'm converting original TOD files using MPEG Streamclip before import and definitely keeping audio as stereo.
This is driving me nuts! It should be simple and is in FCP 6. Any help greatly appreciated.
Stereo Setting
Mono Setting

Mb - If you're using FCPX 10.1.1 and Mavericks, make certain you've downloaded the most current Sony XDCAM FCPX plugin from sonycreativesortware.com unless you're using an older version of FCPX and then you'd need the previous XDCAM plugin.
You shouldn't see 8 mono tracks. There are import settings in /fCPX that you can check and I don't ask FCPX to analyze my media or seperate mono or combine stereo, etc. I like to have everything come in as it is, especially because I know what I've done with every channel, etc.
What I wrote to Ian is what I'd tell you - so please take a look at how you can make a "stereo" track that is actually two mono tracks, mono. Once you do that you can address each mono channel by itself since it needs different volume, compression, and EQ than other channels.
There are ethernet, USB, and firewire controllers that work in FCPX, but that's not the typical workflow because generally if you're getting into any amount of post audio sweetening beyond basic "staples" audio treatment, you would instead use "Roles" to export your audio to Logic or Pro Tools and do you work in those applications and then cut the final product back into your FCPX project. In Logic or Pro Tools is where you might use a controller.
In terms of automating levels, I'm not positive I know what you mean. Compressor is a nice internal Logic plugin that kind of automates levels in a way but its about compressing peaks at a threshold that you set and at a ratio of compression. So I may not understand what other automation is available unless you've exported you tracks to Logic or Pro Tools.

Aspect Ratio - Black Bars Left and Right on Widescreen TV

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for