Pass Through Theme

Hi Folks, hope someone can help me. I have come back to an old (November) project I did for a client of some of his property schemes. Between each I had a Lower Third pass through with the name. I am now trying to add two more schemes and when I preview the same effect it looks fine, but when I apply it gives me a widescreen effect ie big black bars top and bottom. Project was set up in widescreen and I can't think I am doing anything different from last time.
I opened the project on a different Mac to test but the same thing, all on Pass Through effect, some of the other I tried worked OK using the same pics. Any ideas would be of great help!
Thanks
Mark J

Ok answered my own question. Took the project home last night and an it on my old faithful G4 imac running Tiger. No issues at all! seems maybe that Theme is buggy in 10.5.1.

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Nov 14, 2008 3:41 PM Re: Pass Through Theme problem
Re: Pass Through Theme problemin response to Glo H
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