Re: [Avid-L2] Blanking issue rendered into dissolve remnant of the old DV setting?

A thing that can get you is in the Media Creation : Render tab.

I always tell people to un-check "Same As Source".  It screws up.  It also tends to "grab" the resolution of the lowest res thing in your project.

As I do a lot of finishing, I usually cut in the work print offline on the top layer to checkerboard or poor man's Difference Matte to see how my finishing is matching up with the online.

So I believe what happens is that AVID sees the low res offline workprint on the top layer, and starts rendering to that (if "Same As Source" is checked).

I would suspect you have some 480p footage in there somewhere, and if that setting is on, it's grabbing that as the source reference to use in rendering.

As always, your mileage may vary,

Dave Hogan

Burbank, CA

On Mar 20, 2026, at 11:37 AM, John Moore via groups.io <bigfish=pacbell.net@groups.io> wrote:

I'm trying to remember an old issue that would crop up when something in the render settings that effected video when working with DV footage 720x480 instead of 720x486.  I forget if it was in the render settings where you can choose render same as source or was it a project setting.  This behavior is cropping up on some dissolves and not others.  Re-rendering eliminates the black bar at the top of the screen.  I'm pretty sure this is a HD project and wondering if some edit station was somehow set to whatever that force DV processing like setting?  Got the fix but trying to speculate the cause.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net