problems importing widescreen video

[video_enthusiast07]

Hi,

the problem is that I have pre-recorded 16:9 widescreen video from my sony cam, right now I'm using Pinnacle as editor.
The thing is that I also have other widescreen photoclip videos that I want to blend in with the original footage from the sony.

After adding the original footage, and then trying to add the extra widescreen clips, its says that I cannot blend in a non widescreen video with a widescreen. I don't get it, both are widescreen.

One thing I noticed is that the photo clips show the top and bottom black bars on the pinnacle preview screen vs the recorded footage from the camera eliminates those black bars and just have the video showing in a proper way, but without the black bars (there is no distortion from what I can see)

The thing is, if that is the actual problem, and since the other clips already have the black bars.. how can I get the original video to show those black bars? so it can finally mix .. if of course that was the cause of the issue.

Thank you in advance.

[edDV]

I don't have Pinnacle edit software loaded. Is it Studio? Which version?.

What resolution are the video and stills? My guess is you are using 720x480 DV video properly flagged as wide and square pixel stills that are not properly defined as wide in the file properties.

I'm not sure how to correct this in Pinnacle software. The brute force method is to resize your square pixel 16:9 still to 720x480 (1.2121 pixel aspect ratio) and to define it as 16:9 wide in the file properties.

My bet is the Pinnacle software has a way to import a still into a DV format project timeline.