Can anyone explain to me why I have 2 black vertical bars at the right and left edge of frame when using stills 1049x576 pixels. This only happens when editing in DVD PAL Widescreen.

Sorry should have said I'm using Vegas 6.0d

Aspect ration of your still is 1.8. PAL is 1.25. Different aspect ratio means there are gaps, hence the black bars. You need to crop your pictures to the same aspect ratio.

Aspect ratio of Vegas PAL DV Widescreen (16x9) is 1,25??. That would mean cropping a pic to 1049x839 and that does'nt look widescreen?. Or am I missin somethin?

Perhaps. The pizel aspect ratio of your still is very likely 1.00, pal dv wide is 1.4something... so when you import the piccy it gets all stretched.

Just squish it in the editor or b4 importing.

If you stretch out PAL footage from 720 x 576 using a 16:9 aspect ratio you end up with a picture frame of 1024 x 576. Note that it's the pixel aspect ratio that creates widesreen, not the amount of pixels. To that end, widescreen is still 720 x 576, just that the all the pixels are squished up. You need to take your images and adjust them so that when cropped they are 1024 x 576. Now change the dimensions to 720 x 576 in an image editor. Finally import into Vegas and strech the image to fill the screen.

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Still a little confused coz when I took at snapshot of some widescreen (16x9) PAL footage in Vegas and put the snapshot in CS2 it said the image size was 1049x576.