White Stripe at top of the video track

I have a white bar that goes across the top of a project I am trying to get out to a client.

I shot it on a JVC GY500(mini-DV) and have shot other things in the past with this same camera.
It encroaches into the SAFE area of the video and can be seen, slightly, when played back on a television monitor. I have not had this problem on anything else and cannot figure it out.

Any thoughts or suggestions out there?

Thanks.

Tom Smith
818-359-3647

In Quicktime, such a bar is a text track, usually used for subtitles or chapter markers or things like this. If you have QT Pro and you open the footage in it, then check the properties you'll see a text track has been added to the video track and audio track. You can delete it safely from there.

If you have any chapter markers which you want to take forwards to DVDSP then these will be lost. The bar tends to appear when markers are placed using alternative NLEs instead of FCP, although I have managed to set markers badly in FCP before now and get the bar from there, too.

Thank you for the explanation.