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Diagnosing settings-related issues
If you’ve chosen the wrong project setting, the most common problem will relate
to diff erences in the aspect ratio of your video, as evidenced by black bars across
the sides or top and bottom of the video in the Monitor panel, which is a display
technique called letterboxing. Adobe Premiere Elements will letterbox a 16:9 video
displayed in a 4:3 window, producing the black bars on the top and bottom of the
video in the Monitor panel below.
1 To view the current project setting, choose Edit > Project Settings > General. In
this project, as you can see in the Project ...