Getting footage off of a commercial DVD

I had wanted to get some footage off of a commercial DVD, specifically it was that count down stuff that is at the beginning of a reel and some real dust and scratches that I could use to composit an old film look. When I tried to get the DVD footage into Premiere it wasn't reading it. The DVD files are in .VOB ------I was thinking that changing the extension may do the trick, or am I out of luck. I use CS4 on a Mac OX 10.5.7
Thank you

If there is no DRM on that DVD, then PrPro CS4, as of about CS4.3 (cannot remember when full VOB support was added, but it was about the third update for CS4), the program should be able to Import the VOB.
I do like the idea of using stock footage, as you will have paid for the rights of usage, and then there will be no worries about DRM. That will be easier and legal (important to me).
Good luck,
Hunt

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Getting footage off a dvd into fcp

Hey guys,
Heres a question.
I went skydiving. I had someone tape me doing it, and the guys made a DVD for me to take home.
Well I want to do my own magic on it but Im having a hard time.
the dvd plays fine in the dvd player, but thats it. when i open it up it consists of 9 files. 3 files are .vob. now these work in fcp but 1 is just the menu picture, 1 is the first 10 seconds of the video and thats it and the third is just a picture that was used in the menu.
the other 6 firles are . bup .ifo.
now i can see the .vob files in my fcp but the other 2 give me errors. Fcp doesnt recognize it. I downloaded streamclip but even that doesnt read the other 6 files.
is the rest of my video on the ifo or bup files?
I tried everything else including all the applications but am getting no luck
and questions would be much appreicated

I went skydiving. I had someone tape me doing it, and
the guys made a DVD for me to take home.
Well I want to do my own magic on it but Im having a
hard time.
Try a program called "Hawkeye" http://nitosoft.com/en.html
It will convert DVD video to several different file formats for future editing. I've used it to get to footage off a wedding I produced to send a clip over the web to the client recently since I had finished the project and removed renders and original DV footage off the hard drive.
It will convert to several formats, iPod, FCP, AVI, DV25, DV50, PAL, NTSC, even MPEG 2. It will even take footage from multiple discs and burn a new DVD with an iTunes-like playlist.
Grant

DVD video gets cut off, but preview shows dvd as good

Having a problem getting my video to output from dvd burning without getting cut off.
Computer is Win xp pro, 3gb ram, 2.33ghz cpu, 40gb free hd space
Using Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0.2.
I have video which I've recorded from my Sanyo xacti 720p avc camera, which records in mpeg4 format. I've converted the video(s) to mpeg 1,2 for dvd using my "Need4 Video Converter 5.9". At first I tried putting several mpeg1's into my premeire project, then I also merged all the video files into one, but still had the same problem.
I put the video(s) into my premiere project, added some titles on the other video track. Also added some music on another audio track. So, the total size of the videos is about 3.5gb. I preview my project it looks great, I added some dvd scenes and used a nice template with scene selection and captions..the works. Now I try to burn it several ways, to a dvd, to a file folder on high or low settings, but everytime I only end up with about 1.5gb of data, and 25 mins of video, so it is cut off. My original video is an hour and 50 mins.
The encoding takes about 3 hrs after I hit burn. No errors or anything.
So, I cannot understand what I need to do. I don't want to convert to a smaller or lower format, bcz I dont' want to lose quality. I'm at a loss bcz I've tried so many different formats and combinations, let this stuff run for so many hours this past weekend, and still can't get it to work. Is there some kind of setting I'm missing? Something in premiere?
I've read some best practices on the forum, and I understand to use bit rate of 7mbs or less, and to burn on slow speed. Is it at all bcz I'm burning it to my hard drive? but i don't think this is my issue. is it the old software? it came with my Sanyo camera, so I would think its good enough.
Please help if you can. I was thinking my next shot might be to convert it down to a much smaller size, and maybe it will fit(but quality may be an issue). Thanks in advance. -Ron

Ron,
Yes, PE is a scaled down version of P-Pro, but also has some additional features, plus an easier way of doing many things, that its "big brother" does not. As to the ability to Export/Share frame sizes, I think that most are included in PE (would have to open each and explore precisely to tell you if it's all there). I do not think that this is your issue.
As to the conversion, I'd step back to your original footage, Sanyo MP4, right? Unless Sanyo is using a proprietary CODEC to create the MP4's, you *should* be able to Open these files in QuickTime and play them. If you have QuickTime Pro (costs about US$30 to upgrade to "Pro), you *should* be able to Export and choose DV-AVI as your Export setting. Note: the term ".AVI" can mean so very many things. What you want is DV-AVI. This is the "native" format for PE - what it converts all other file formats to, to edit. The quality loss going with this format can be measured in a lab, but is almost totally impossible to see on any TV with the human eye. Doing this will likely enhance your entire editing experience.
As for quality and conversions and compression, your camera has already done one conversion, when it wrote to MP4. You cannot get around that. Conversion to DV-AVI will be "virtually" lossless, though the file size WILL increase. The reason is that with MP4, not all "frames" exist with full content - part of its compression. With DV-AVI each "frame" will exist with full content. Be prepared for LARGE files, but files with all of the info.
Then, when you Burn to DVD, you WILL recompress your data to MPEG-2 format, the DVD standard. You will loose some quality there, but it cannot be avoided. It is how DVD's hold their Audio & Video data.
I still do not have any ideas that would directly affect your movie not burning completely. If the Duration of your movie has exceeded the capacity of a DVD-5, you would/should get an error message to that effect. You do not.
One thing to go back and look for in your original Project's Timeline would be "gaps" in the Video. These can cause problems (or sometimes not). I zoom my Timeline way up, and use the PageUp & PageDn keys to "step" through the various Clips. The CTI (Current Time Indicator - that little doobie that marks where you are on the Timeline) should move in a linear fashion from Clip to Clip. If you see it pause, or hiccup, then zoom WAY in to the max and study the Timeline there. Are all Clips butted up to each other? Now, you can have Clips on Video Tracks above #1, that would allow you to have "gaps" in the Video on VT 1. That is OK, but if you have any spots on the Timeline, where there is NO Video, you'll likely want to fix these. You can close up the gaps by moving the Clips, so that they do butt up, or if you want "black" there, just go to the New icon and choose Black Video. Size it to fit the gap, and you will be fine. You can also extend the Clip before the gap, or after the gap, if that does not mess up your editing. Several choices and each should be based on what you want to have happen. If you find a bunch of gaps (even one can be deadly) try to Export/Burn again. Note: I've seen one 1-frame gap cause problems, but just had to re-edit a Project where I fixed 900+ gaps, and that Project had already Burned 4 DVD's. Go figure.
Last thing to look at would be to hit the "\" key in Timeline mode. This will zoom out to show the full Timeline. Do you have anything stuck out by itself, past where you thought the end was? This should yield other problems, but not the one you are experiencing. Still, who knows? It's also a good thing to do, when you believe you are done, just to check that something didn't get "orphaned" out beyond where one normally looks on the Timeline.
Good luck,
Hunt
[Edit] 01:50 is longish for a DVD-5. You will not be able to set a very high bit-rate (Quality slider), but you should still get the full Timeline, or an error message.

I'm in trouble, please help!! (Getting footage off of computer)

About a year ago I made a wedding video for a woman. A year later she's blasting me because it skips and freezes up at points. Part of me wants to say, "no lifetime garauntee lady, lose my number." The good guy in me wants to find a fix.
So I have her DVD and it DOES freeze up and stuff. I was able to use 'handbrake' and get the first 22 out of 50 minutes off. I can't figure out how to rip the rest. I'm basically trying to get the footage back onto imovie.
I also tried running through my dvd player into imovie, but it skipped for me as well. I need to somehow export from the computer or have the computer turn it into a quicktime. I also tried 'disc utililty' which failed.
Any tips???? Need to get this woman off my back.

Well, if there is a read problem with the disc (and that is what it sound like) I am not sure how you would get the material off the disc. I mean why doesn't Handbrake rip the whole thing? Of course ripping the material off the disc will eventually degrade the quality which may not solve your back problem. Did you make a back up tape? Or even a back up DVD? The back up tape is the first and best source to turn to, capture that and redo the DVD. A back up DVD may at least give you a readable DVD to rip from from. If all that fails, it is back to the original tapes and try to do a re-edit. Was only this one disc made, does somebody else in the family have a disc? How long has the client had the disc? If there is scratching on the disc you may want to try a cleaner: http://www.amazon.com/Scotch-DVD-Disc-Cleaner-Repair/dp/B0002T54KU. If there isn't scratching on the disc, that opens a whole new can of worms, not the least of which is that DVD from iMovie/iDVD won't play on her player. Most likely reason is that iDVD uses uncompressed audio.
If you don't have back ups or the original tapes and can't get a readable copy of the disc, it may be time to bite the bullet and offer a refund, assuming you charged for this. I would certainly expect a disc to last more than a year, provided it was properly cared for, wouldn't you? Experience is expensive. Back up often.
Mike

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Hello Imanuzza:
To unistall go to control panel select programs and features. Then go down the list of programs and select the program to unistall. Now you did not give us your computers make and model number or version windows. So I a summed you have a Touchsmart widows 7 computer. Before you uninstall Microsoft Office 2010 please contact Microsoft support technicians go to MSN.com because Microsoft Office 2007 may not be capabilities. Least on a HP Touchsmart 600-1050 Windows 7 Ultimate . What the technician did for me was let me download Microsoft Office 2010 and gave me a new product key. Yes the Microsoft Office 2007 features worked but the updater part did not worked and caused other issues with other operating system software.
If you do want to try it on your computer before contacting Microsoft technical support you can. Things you need to check is status of your Antivirus software make sure it is receiving and installing updates. Check your firewall status make sure changes did not occur. Check your Windows updater history making sure Microsoft Office 2007 updates were successfull. I do not know if it was just my Microsoft Office 2007 disk copy was the issue or if it was just not capabilities. Microsoft Technician never told me. After working a month with them. They gave me Microsoft Office 2010 download. Please click on Kudos if this resolves your issue. Thank you frrw.

Need help getting audio off of a dvd...

[You can skip this paragraph if you don't need the backstory.]
So, for several weeks I've been trying to get some audio off of a DVD of mine and into a simple mp3 file. A couple days ago I found and followed this guide, and thought I had succeeded. But after a while I realized that the file I got does not play nice with my handheld mp3 player, or mpd, or mplayer, or anything whatsoever that is not gstreamer-based. MPD goes especially berserk - after playing the file, it can no longer play anything else until I reboot (yes reboot - restarting mpd doesn't fix anything). I should also mention that I'm aware that the guide is not 100% correct; I followed the advice and corrections of some commentors there too.
Anyways, I guess I need to ask for help with this. How would you go about getting audio off of a DVD?
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I usually use the following command to rip a music dvd to wav:
OUTPUTDIR="/Some/Rip/Dir"
TITLE=2
FIRST_CHAPTER=1
LAST_CHAPTER=13
CHAPTER=$FIRST_CHAPTER
AUDIO_ID=128
echo "Ripping Audio..."
while [ $CHAPTER -le $LAST_CHAPTER ]; do
let NO=$CHAPTER
mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd1 dvd://$TITLE -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:waveheader:file=$OUTPUTDIR/track$NO.wav -af lavcresample=44100 -aid $AUDIO_ID -chapter $CHAPTER-$CHAPTER
let CHAPTER=CHAPTER+1
done
Resampling to 44100 is important since most mp3 players cannot handle 48000.
Then I have another little script that converts it to flac, sets the correct tags, and finally converts the flac to oggs as well..
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?Difficulty with GET MEDIA in Premiere Elements 4; DVD import

In Premiere Elements 4, I attempted to import video footage off a DVD. I insert the DVD, click on GET MEDIA, then select DVD from the options list.
I get the message ADOBE PHOTO DOWNLOADER HAS STOPPED WORKING; a problem caused programme to stop working.
I have reinstalled Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and used the repair option with my Premiere Elemets 4 disc with no improvement.I would value help!
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I would address the OS problems first. When things start going wonky in the OS, there can be a ripple effect, where portions of programs stop functioning, at least as they should. Before you go after those "ripples," try to solve what might be causing them.
Now for your DVD (after the OS issues are addressed), PE can Import, i.e. rip from many DVD's. However, there CAN be problems with some. PE is working with the VOB's and these can contain more than just the MPEG-2 Video and Audio. They can also contain alternate Audio, Menus and Sub-Menus, Subtitles, etc. These can give even the most sophisticaed ripping software fits. PE's ripping capabilities are limited, though when they work, they work pretty well. Here is a LINK to an article by Jeff Bellune, in the Encore forum. While it's goal is to get DVD material into Encore for authoring another DVD, most applies to getting the material into an NLE, like PE. Here is a LINK to the PrPro-wiki with FAQ's on DVD.
Get the OS issues straightened out first, then take a look at the provided links, in case PE still has problems with the DVD.
Good luck,
Hunt

Editing material from a commercial DVD

I'd like to mess around with footage from a commercial dvd...in this case a nice quality criterion disk. This is my own dvd and this is strictly for the practice and personal use. How do I transfer the movie to FCP for editing? I've used Handbrake to successfully rip the movie into both Mpeg4 and Avi files (Mac the Ripper is not yet available for Universal). When I file/edit/import/files for either of these formats, I get the following message:
File Error: 1 file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown.
...so the question is, how do I get this to work? Am I formatting all wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for all the postings.
Completely understand about the 1st Problem. I will speak of it no more.
2nd Problem solved...again, by searching the forums and culling, culling.
The solution is to import the original footage from iMovie into quicktime, then open with FCP.
I am, however, running into a problem of rendering that footage. The quick fix is to use "unlimited RT", which allows me to actually view the footage, make my edits, etc., but I will eventually have to render at some point. If you have suggestions, please post...otherwise, I'll probably find the solution searching the forums.
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Importing a commercial DVD to FCP

Hi all,
I'm trying to import a NTSC commercial DVD (public domain film) into FCP.
A lot of VOB files.
I'm fairly new at this - I tried using 4Media Video Ripper for Mac and it seemed quite confusing.
The movie clips I already have in my sequence (from another life!) are set at: 720 x 480, 29.97 fps, DV/DVCPRO - NT, 48 Khz. I'm trying to match these settings with the new movie clips.
I'm using MPEG Streamclip and I've set the Movie Exporter window as follows:
Compression: Apple DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
100% quality
Sound: Uncompressed, Stereo, 48 Khz
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I also adjusted Streamclip preferences to fix streams with data breaks, to resample audio to 48
I'm still getting thousands of data breaks in the encoding window (10,000! and I'm only 9 minutes in)- and the results are a mess.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Also, is there a way to get the entire movie in one file or do I need to stitch it together?
Is 4Media Video Ripper for Mac of any use - or have I wasted my money.
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While your film may well be in the public domain, it would seem that it has been placed on a DVD that has had anti-copying features added to it.
Discussion of methods which break that copy protection is prohibited on Apple Discussions. Those methods could also be used by others to unlawfully circumvent it on copyrighted discs too -this is a public forum that anyone can read. Obviously, Apple do not want to be put in a position where they could be accused by copyright holders of openly presenting this information.
In any case, DVD is a heavily compressed source and will degrade in quality when it is converted to an editable codec. Tools such as MPEG Streamclip and DVDxDV are useful when there is no other way to access the footage, but using a DVD copy really should be a last resort.
Ask the film's distributor for a copy that is already in a suitable, high quality format that can be edited. If there are no longer royalties or licensing fees applicable, you will only pay for the physical media, shipping and handling.

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Since I use an eSata cage to back up the majority of my stuff, I can't say how long this has been going on. I believe it happened last week after I did a software update.My superdrive (PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-117D) will not mount or read any commercial DVD as well as ripped DVD's of movies. This includes not only any movies but also any original software installation dvd's from vendors (including apple). The superdrive does recognize dvd's to burn and dvd's I have burned on it. It also has no problem w/ any cd. The same thing has happened on my 15" PB w/ superdrive.
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my 15" PB 1.5 w/ combo drive doesn't have a problem. Also I was able to mount my OSX tiger upgrade DVD w/o a problem on the G5. I can't however mount the iLife 5 installation DVD (get the message that "this disk is unreadable by this computer"). It (iLife 5) does show up in disk utility and I am currently trying to make a disk image.

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I just upgraded my macbook hard drive, doing a clean install of Mac OS X on the drive in an external enclosure, then copying the remaining files, doing all the software updates, and swapping out my old drive. Everything works so far, except... the DVD player will no longer play commercial dvd's (movies and tv). The drive hardware seems ok, in that it reads audio CD's (through iTunes) and DVD's of tv shows burned on my home recorder... which suggests that the DVD player software is ok, too. Did a setting get changed in my software, where it thinks I'm putting in the wrong regional dvd type? The disk goes in, spins and makes noise, and, after a short while ejects out.

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Reads DVD: Yes
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I found some people with similar issues, but no one with my exact problem, so I thought I would post it here.
I have a MacBook Pro that I got in November of 2007. Recently I noticed my drive stopped playing certain discs. I did some test and determined that it will play/write pretty much anything you throw at it except for some commercial DVD's. I actually brought it to the apple store and foolisly grabbed some dvd's at random, assuming that NONE would work. The one's I brought mounted just fine. Since I couldn't replicate the issue, I couldn't get much help. He said to try logging into a different user, I guess to determine if there was an issue with my Library. I tried that, it does the same thing regardless of the user.
Basically, some discs spin, and spin like the computer is struggling to read it, then it spits it out. Young Frankenstein and X-Men: The Last Stand, work fine. Children of Men doesn't (it used to work just fine).
I initially noticed the issue when trying to install the digital copies that came with my Back to the Future Trilogy boxed set. Back to the Future's digital copy disc mounts fine. The discs for Part II and Part III don't.
I doubt the drive is busted since so many discs work fine and it isn't ALL commercial discs that won't mount. Only some. My theory is that it's software related. Maybe something with reading certain encoding.
This is the second time I had this problem. The first time I read that verifying and repairing disc permissions would fix it, and it did....but now that doesn't do the trick.
It is consistent though. The same discs either work or don't work EVERY time. I thought maybe the lens needs cleaning. I read conflicting things about using lens cleaning discs in slot load drives so that's a last resort. But I imagine it wouldn't be so consistent if it was a dirty lens. Also, other players I've had with dirty lenses just skipped or had a disc read error of some sort. I don't get any errors. I also ran the Hardware Test on my OSX Install disc, which found no errors/issues. I wonder if it would have detected my drive as an error if it indeed was a hardware issue? Makes sense to me, but I'm not sure what the Hardware Test tests exactly, if the drive is included in that.
Any suggestions? I saw a thread from 2006 where someone suggested that deleting (Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist) helped him, but I am really hesitant to delete an item from my Library. That just seems like asking for trouble and I'm not sure what my finder preferences have to do with my DVD's not mounting. Next I will probably try resetting my SMC. I'm not sure how that could help either, but it's a suggestions I've seen floating about and it's easy enough to do.
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Macbook Pro, Intel Core2 Duo, 2.4 ghz
4gb Ram
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SMC Version (system):    1.16f11
MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-857E:
Firmware Revision:    ZA0E
Interconnect:    ATAPI
Burn Support:    Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache:    2048 KB
Reads DVD:    Yes
CD-Write:    -R, -RW
DVD-Write:    -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies:    CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media:    To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose View > Refresh
Thanks. Sorry for the long and overly thurough post, but I thoguht that might help get me better help. Any input is greatly appreciated as it may save me the hour long trip back to the apple store.

I'm also having the same exact issues with some commercial DVDs and music CDs. It continues to read DVD-RWs but around two days ago it stopped reading commercially bought discs.
I've tested with brand new DVDs today (out of shrink wrap in pristine condition) all of which have the same region and have been tested on a DVD player, PS3, and another laptop without any glitches but only some of them played on my Macbook and the others would either spin for a bit and then ejected or it would read them as blank discs where the 'You inserted a blank DVD' message comes up.
I also tried testing older DVDs that used to play fine on my Macbook but only some of them mounted.
I then tried the following cleaning methods:
- Laser Lens Cleaner
- Compressed air
- Credit card with iPhone cleaning cloth
All of which failed to fix the problem so it's safe to assume this isn't a dust issue, the driver have also been very lightly used as I have only watched a handful of DVDs on it and written less than 10 DVD-RWs since I first purchased it in 2009.
My warranty has expired and replacing the drive would cost over $250 which I currently can't afford, therefore I plan to buy a cheaper external DVD burner but that is only a temporary workaround and I still hope for a solution other than replacing the driver.
Here's my info:
MacBook, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GHz
2 GB RAM
Boot ROM Version:    MB52.0088.B05
SMC Version (system):    1.38f5
MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ867A:
Firmware Revision:    KK08
Interconnect:    ATAPI
Burn Support:    Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache:    2048 KB
Reads DVD:    Yes
CD-Write:    -R, -RW
DVD-Write:    -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies:    CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media:    Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds

What size should my movies be to not get cut off?

I am making a tutorial DVD. I used Snapz Pro to record a bunch of screen capture movies and then edited them together in FCP and exported them as 1024x768 animation movies and they look great. Now I want to burn them to DVD. When I take them as they are and put them on a DVD the top and bottom of the screen get cut off. Can I just resize the movies in QT pro to a different size so they won't cut off? If so what size? Is there a better way?

Scott,
A mix of this QuickTime Pro: How to Make Picture-in-Picture at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42633 and the following procedure I put together a couple of years ago to use the small movies produced by still digital cameras in iMovie/iDVD:
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3. Select the mask clip and edit->select all and then edit->copy
4. Select the DiMage X clip and then edit -> add scaled the mask
5. Next, select movie -> get movie properties
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7. Select video one on the left box and size on the right box. Click on adjust. Red hack marks appear around the video. Click on the picture (not the mark) and center the video on the lightened 320 x 240 box.
8. The video may not completely cover the lighter box, but the hack marks should line up. When you view the movie, if you used a "slightly lighter" black for the center area, you won't a notice a lighter area when played in iDVD.
9. Export it as a DV stream. Bring it into iDVD.
will give you an idea on how to proceed. Obviously, you will need to come up with your own mask and cut-out size - 640x480 ISN'T what YOU want.

Tops of Signatures get cut off...

Can anyone tell me why or, better yet, how to fix the following issue I keep having?
When using Adobe Reader and the "Sign>I Need To Sign>Place Signature" function with "Signature Style 4" the top of some of the letters of signatures gets cut off (see screenshot below).
I cannot find a way to rejustify the text nor am I able to enlarge only the box that the text is located in. The single enlarging feature for the box is a diagonal enlargement tool which inherently also enlarges the text when it is used. So it defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to fix and only makes the issue into a larger size.
Any assistance in correcting this issue is greatly appreciated!
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There are several situations where this could happen.
1) If you have 4:3 footage (standard def) in a 16:9 project (widescreen) and select CROP in the Rotate, Crop, Ken Burns Tool, then it will cut off the top and bottom of your clips to make them fill the screen. If you select FIT instead of CROP, it will letterbox (add black bars) so you see the whole clip.
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