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Video has a weird space and is not centered

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Hello everyone. I have a huge problem and am hoping I can find a solution by tomorrow night. I work for a musician and we are projects video/images/etc. in the background of his concert. We just had the rehearsal and realized a few things are off and can't figure out how to fix them.

Our biggest problem is the video we shot with one of those little HD video cameras that we've been filming with the past few weeks (about 50% of the video we are using was made with this camera). When we upload them into iMovie it loads in with a space on the left hand side before the video, which makes this video off-centered. Everything else we use (such as the old video not shot in HD and the pictures) are centered. So half of the videos are centered, half are not. It looks very awkward. Does anyone know what's causing this and how we can fix it? Google did not help me at all! Thank you!
 
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I Haven't heard of this.

Perhaps if you give some details like, camera model, codec, iMovie version, a picture of the result, someone will recognize the issue.

Sometimes when problems get really weird, people delete the preference file for the application. In this case iMovie. They also fix any permissions issues, although I can't see that being an issue here. Naturally, iMovie should not be running while doing these things.

Can QuickTime player play the raw file from the camera? If so, properly without the odd space? Have you tried other programs with the files? Does the video play back properly well in the event pane, but not properly when placed into a project? Can you play the imported video in QuickTime Player without the space?
 

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