Exporting Letterbox without Bars

[Jeff Pulera]

“Can I really crop it to a perfect 16/9?”

Absolutely!! Since you want to submit this to festivals, you will need to use a proper video format. Going to suggest 720p for that since you are close already with the dimensions you have in the upscale version. When you provide a proper sample of the upscale footage you are working with, I can then decide how to best get it to 1280×720 as 16:9 with no bars in the image. Hopefully, without cropping or stretching width or height, to be determined when I see what you are working with. I think the lack of resolution to the issue so far is due to not knowing precisely what you are working with there, not having a sample of the actual material. Should have been resolved many posts ago ????

Thank you

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Robert Gilbert]

[Robert Gilbert]

[Robert Gilbert]

Dear Jeff,

The first two images are from the SD version (Silver car and Settings)
The second two are from the HD version (Close up and Settings)
They were not squashed in premiere

[Ann Bens]

Post a screenshot of an original clip analyzed in Mediainfo in TREEVIEW.
All your settings look incorrect.

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

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[Robert Gilbert]

Thanks.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the images, now I am more confused as to why the suggestions I have put forth have not worked for you.

I imported the “car” image into Premiere and it came in as DV PAL (4:3), which is to be expected since a still since image does not respect PAR. So I right-clicked image in Project Bin, and used Modify > Interpret to set Pixel Aspect to DV PAL Widescreen. I then did New Sequence from Clip and got a proper widescreen image from timeline.

From that timeline, I then did Export and set to H.264 > YouTube 720p HD

NOTE – you will need to set Scale to Fit in output settings to remove very narrow black edges which come from slight math differences in converting DV wide to HD wide.

Please see attached the Output Settings, which also shows source (sequence) settings, for how I arrived at a good 720p HD output, and also added a final still image pulled from the 720p .mp4 I created.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Robert Gilbert]

Thank you, Jeff. What did you use for the Output “aspect”? I did just what you said using square pixels (because that was there by default). Then I tried it again with DV PAL widescreen as the aspect. Neither of the two attempts worked. I set it to 1 pass to save time. You wrote “scale to fit” but the settings photo showed “scale to fill”, so I tried both but nothing worked. Please advise me further.

[Robert Gilbert]

I didn’t use the cropper in the Encoder.

[Jeff Pulera]

Sorry for the typo, SCALE TO FILL is desired if output preview shows any black edges

“nothing worked” doesn’t give me anything with which to help you. HOW didn’t it work, what was the result?

No offense, but this has to be user error of some sort that we are overlooking. What EXACTLY did you do this time around, and what was the outcome?

And for starters, please do NOT work with that 1344×1080 abomination of footage, please begin with the 720×576 clips and ALL HD output attempts should be 1.0 PAR

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers