Aspect Ratio Ahoy!

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I posted this to Foolish Passion, but I figured I'd try my luck here.



First off, I am working with Adobe Premiere CS4. I don't know the ins-and-outs of the program like I should, as I just upgraded to it from 6.0 (I know!).

If any of you work in the Buffy/Angel fandoms, you likely have run into this problem: Aspect ratio. Buffy itself is in the standard Full Screen format, with the exception of one episode (Once More With Feeling) that is widescreen. Annoying. Angel is in the widescreen format. Hence, when clipping from either Angel, or OMWF, you have issues of the 'suddenly, there was widescreen' variety. In the past, I have ignored it, cause hey, I was a total newbie and people didn't care about those things back then. Or never told me they did. Now it annoys me. Any way to fix this in CS4? Keep in mind I know next to nothing about the program...>.< I used to know how to solve this! I did. What happened to that?

Also, all of my output videos come out with black bars surrounding them. Like, on all sides. Like my video is trapped in a little box. It wants out! What did I do wrong, and how can I fix it?

Edit: Adding a screen capture of what I mean. I've outlined the black bars in white. This clip is also from widescreen source, and I believe my adobe is autocorrecting somehow, as I didn't so that. I am pretty sure it's gunna end up looking weird if I don't like...figure out what the heck its doing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v127/bloodypoetry/blackbars.jpg