Final Cut Express Problem

What are your clip and sequence settings?

Have you taken a look at the manual?

What are the settings (codec, format, resolution, fps, ...) of the source file?


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Have you also taken a look at MRoogle, since that question may have been asked several times?

 

Those black bars are called "Letterboxing". It makes it so that when you watch widescreen videos on a Standard TV, it won't be distorted.

You have to change your Sequence settings to 16:9 (Right click the sequence and go to Properties/Settings).

Also, I think you would have to change all the clips' Master Clips in your timeline to 16:9 and drag them in the timeline again.

 

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