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Can’t remove letterboxing?
I’m trying to edit a video from Youtube that has audio that’s not in synch with the video (for my personal viewing), and am trying to render it, but I can’t get rid of the letterboxing that Vegas creates with the project. I matched the project settings to that of the video-480×360, PAR of 1.0, progressive scan, and 29.999 fps.
Here is a link to the original video (with no letterboxing).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzBMrPVZv4
Here’s how it appears in my Vegas project.
Full screen in my project.
And trying to correct it by setting the aspect ratio to 16×9 in the pan and crop function-which normally works, but here, does nothing to change the size of the image or to remove the letterboxing (yes, I realize that it’s keyframed to that one position, but I had it set to 16×9 for the entire video and at no point does it actually make the video 16×9 or remove the letterboxing).
Finally, here’s a test upload I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80oMOSKKQI4
Basically, it seems that no matter what, I have a 4:3 image that’s letterboxed. Any ideas?
http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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I just found the answer and got it working, but I want to leave this post up to be a lesson to everyone-sometimes just laying out, step by step, what you’ve done, so that you can hear/read yourself doing it, is enough to find your mistake.
What I was missing was that I’m not supposed to changed the aspect ratio in the project. You have to remove letterboxing in a situation like this in the render, by rendering to widescreen. Duh.
It’s still not quite perfect, though, so I’m wondering if I’m missing anything else. I rendered to 640×360 widescreen, PAR of 1, as mp4, with small black bars along the top, bottom, and sides. Here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wByVOO49gQ0
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http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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For something like this, you should be setting your project settings to match the desired output format (eg 640×360), then dropping your 4:3 footage on the timeline and cropping the video event with the crop aspect set to “Match output aspect”. Crop the 4:3 event so that you just get rid of the letterboxing, then render with the same frame format (eg Internet 360p).
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That YouTube video already has top and bottom BLACK BARS.
It looks like the person who uploaded it, simply captured it from their standard-definition cable-tv signal and uploaded it to YouTube without cropping the BLACK BARS out.
The actual video – without the black bars – is suppose to be widescreen 16:9. Given that the video frame size is 480×360 with black bars, that would mean the actual video (without the black bars) is just 480×270.
So you need to change your project settings. Personally, I’d go with a more standard frame size for 16:9 like 640×360.
So your PROJECT SETTINGS should be:
1. FRAME SIZE = 640×360
2. PAR = SQUARE
3. SCAN-TYPE = None (Progressive)
4. FRAME RATE = 30After importing the video, then use the PAN/CROP tool. Simply select the preset for 16:9.
That is it! No more black bars!
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