videos are smaller in Cakewalk Sonar than they were in Bandlab version

[andre hughes]

I have a cover band and we use the Cakewalk video view as a teleprompter.  Now that the Bandlab version is being removed and we have to use the new Cakewalk Sonar I found a major problem for us.  The video view in the new Sonar displays the video much smaller in the window than it did in the Bandlab version.  It is now letterboxed with a black border all around the video.   I have done extensive testing and confirmed it.  Opening the same song on the same computer first with the Bandlab version- normal size full screen.  Then with the new Sonar- smaller video, not fullscreen.  We have about 150 songs and this is years of adding songs and videos.  Also if you go to display settings in Windows and change the Scale setting it behaves correctly in the old Sonar, you can zoom in to make the video bigger.  In the new Sonar changing the Scale setting does nothing.  This has to be a bug?  Any ideas to solve this?  I cant imagine if I have to change the resolution of every video in a video editor to fix this. 

[Will.]

19 minutes ago, andre hughes said:

I have a cover band and we use the Cakewalk video view as a teleprompter.  Now that the Bandlab version is being removed and we have to use the new Cakewalk Sonar I found a major problem for us.  The video view in the new Sonar displays the video much smaller in the window than it did in the Bandlab version.  It is now letterboxed with a black border all around the video.   I have done extensive testing and confirmed it.  Opening the same song on the same computer first with the Bandlab version- normal size full screen.  Then with the new Sonar- smaller video, not fullscreen.  We have about 150 songs and this is years of adding songs and videos.  Also if you go to display settings in Windows and change the Scale setting it behaves correctly in the old Sonar, you can zoom in to make the video bigger.  In the new Sonar changing the Scale setting does nothing.  This has to be a bug?  Any ideas to solve this?  I cant imagine if I have to change the resolution of every video in a video editor to fix this. 

Right click on the video file>Stretch Options and choose your desired window size. 

Edited August 2 by Will.

[andre hughes]

Thank you Will!  I tested this and the full screen option works.  But Stretch settings are not saved.  The next time you open the project its back to small video again.  We cant be trying to right click on the teleprompter screen which is at the front of the stage with the laptop at the back of the stage.  And have to do this at the beginning of every song.  Plz advise

[andre hughes]

The best that Ive been able to come up with is to change the screen resolution on the teleprompter monitor to 1280 x 600.  At least this makes the song video fill the Video View window.  That unfortunately changes the Windows display to have black bars across the top and bottom, but it does fit the screen side to side.  I can probably live with that, at least it accomplishes getting back the larger lyrics.  I should mention that this issue is with 720p lyric videos.  Making them 1080p solves the problem and you get full screen top to bottom and side to side, however, that introduces a few seconds of delay from hitting Play and when the cursor starts moving, an issue that is not there if the video is 720p.  Also, 1080p makes the video file size over twice as large.   The preferred solution is using Stretch and setting it to full screen but as mentioned above, that setting does not save.