Changing The Video Height & Width Inside The Sequence Box

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Anthony,

It will be helpful to know which preset you are using, and the dimensions of the video clip. You can right-click the video clip and choose “Scale to Frame” which should get rid of most or all of the black.

Another option is to create a custom preset to match your footage, but that depends on how you want to deliver the video, you may need to stay with a “video standard” and not a custom size.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Anthony Uccello]

Yes thank you that worked well!

I just realized though that the native video clip has 2 black bars on the side.

Is there a way I can trim the side bars from the video clip or render the clip such that the black bars are removed?

I realize I can scale the video to push out the side bars but then its too zoomed in and I lose part of the top and bottom.

Thanks

[Jeff Pulera]

How will you deliver the video? If only online, then you can create whatever frame size you want, not limited by DVD or Blu-ray resolution and aspect ratio constraints.

When you start Premiere and are choosing a sequence, go to the General tab and make your own settings to match the source video size, then SAVE PRESET.

If the sequence setting matches the video clip, no black bars and no scaling needed, edit at native size.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Anthony Uccello]

Brilliant answer that REALLY helps!

The one issue I am having is the native clip I am working with has 2 black bars on the sides

1469_bars.png.zip

Is there a way to trim the sides of those bars off the native file so I can render it black bar free (and without having to zoom in to push them out)?

[Jeff Pulera]

Do you know positively that the black bars are embedded in the video file, or is the player adding them? And again, what is the resolution of the original file?

You can use Adobe CROP effect to trim the actual sides off the video, but you will still have black bars unless you put some other background on an underlying video track to show through in the cropped area. Maybe this is an acceptable solution for you, to add a background?

The bottom line is, if your original clip is a non-standard video size that doesn’t properly fit an existing sequence, you either have to scale your image a bit, or change the sequence settings. I don’t know what else to recommend, can’t put a square peg in a round hole sort of analogy here.

Jeff

[Anthony Uccello]

Gotcha

Yes the native file does have black bars,

I guess there’s not way to just trim the sides and the resolution at the same time.

Ill make do,

I appreciate the help! Im normally a sony vegas user but for some reason I have a bunch of videos (like this one) where the audio cuts out after 30 seconds, so Ive had to switch to Premiere to get these working.

Appreciate the speed and advice Jeff

[Jeff Pulera]

Here is a solution. Figure out the dimensions of just the part of video you wish to keep, meaning the X dimension, minus black areas. Take your still into Photoshop or something and figure out the proper size.

Create a NEW Desktop sequence in Premiere using the correct sizing that you want to have (less black bars) and Import your clip, with “Scale to Frame” unchecked. The video should then fill the frame, with the black bars being off the sides, out of displayed area. Fixed.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Anthony Uccello]

I am going to try that asap

however Ive come into another random error….the video plays SMOOTH inside premiere but when I render it, the rendered video vibrates up and down constantly. Do you know what that might be?

here is video footage of the issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOnd7KIm_o

[Jeff Pulera]

The whole thing plays kind of jerky for me, so I can’t see the vibration, but any time you encode for the web, make sure that the fields are set to “Progressive”, as computer displays are deinterlaced.

Jeff

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[Anthony Uccello]

Hmm ok

How would I do that?