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Faking Letterboxing for Widescreen in Premiere Pro 2
The project I’m working on is in 4:3 but we’re “faking” widescreen by putting black bars on it. This is happening manually so that we could move some images up or down in the frame.
In Photoshop, I created a transparent image with the black bars in the appropriate place. Imported into Premiere, it looks great. However, I watched the DVD on a large widescreen TV and noticed a faint white line in some scenes at the edge of the black bar closest to the picture.
Is there a better way to draw on the bars? Should I do some creative color matte work in Premiere itself? Is anyone besides me going to even notice this?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
V
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3 Replies
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The method I always used for letterboxing 4:3 video was to apply the “Clip” effect from the Transform folder. The most efficient way to do it for me was to edit everything in 4:3 and then nest that sequence in a new sequence where I then only had to applly the effect once. I hope that makes sense. That method always looked clean.
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You can also use the PremPro Titler to do this and there is even an editable Template for the task.
Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)
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Go in Effects window, under “Video Effects”, find “Transform” and under “Transform” there is “Crop”. Drag and drop “Crop” effect onto your clip and with your clip selected go in Effect control and slide the “top” and “bottom” as much as you want your letterbox to be. To save time, you can right click these “crop” settings and select save preset and they will appear under “Presets” in Effects window. From there you can drag your preset and drop it onto the rest of your clips in the timeline…
Best regards,
moldvarpan
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