Vegas Event Pan/Crop Tool Causing More Distortion to My Project

[hip_school_preppie]

Hi Folks - so, with one project I'm cleaning up in Vegas 7.0 I'm having this issue when I try to use the Event Pan/Crop tool. There's some artifacts througout the clip at the very bottom of every frame, so I just wanna use the Event Pan/Crop tool to shave off the outter most frame of the entire project - almost like I just want to zoom in a tad. I'm set to 4:3 and when I manually adjust the border (say from the bottom right hand corner of the view rectangle and just push it in a little towards the center just to shave the outter most area of the picture) the entire picture starts to get distorted. It's like every other 5 lines shifts to one side a little.

Is Vegas trying to automatically resize/adjust itself? How do I stop it from doing that?

For fun, I tried changing the preset to 16x9 and I thought that might work, but I noticed that everytime there was a scene change the very top line of the picture (right below the top black bar) would start to pick up the next scene two frames too early. Weird.

[jagabo]

Don't resize interlaced video. Overlay the head switching noise with a black bar instead.

[hip_school_preppie]

Thanks jagabo - do you know how to do this with Vegas?

[guns1inger]

Go to Media Generators -> Solid Colour. Select the black solid and drag it to a new timeline. Move this timeline to the top of the stack. Use event pan and crop on the solid to move it down to cover the noise.

[hip_school_preppie]

That worked like a charm! Thanks guns1inger!!!!