Hi there, I am new to all this so if anyone chooses to answer my question please give me simple answers.

I edited a short video clip in Adobe Premiere 1.5. The footage was from an HD camera so it is widescreen 16:9. I exported the clip as an AVI file and viewed it and it looked great. Then I brought the clip over to SUPER and tried to compress it.

I first tried scaling the video to 1280:720 and when I viewed the compressed clip I got thick black bars on the right and left side of the clip. I then tried other 16:9 aspect ratios and got the same thing.

So my question is why is this happening? Am I missing something? It seems that SUPER is squishing the clip from the sides. Any information would be very helpful...thanks.