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How can I change from letterbox to widescreen?
Hello. I edit with Adobe Premiere CS5. I have video clips that have a black boarder all the way around, which looks like/is a letterbox effect. I want to match my other footage which is HDV 1080p widescreen, and I don’t want to loose any quality. Is there a way to change the letter box effect to widescreen (widescreen, meaning the footage is all the to the edges of the preview/playback windows)? Video formatted as VLC media file (.mpeg).
These are the specs:
Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 266.9 MB
Image Size: 1440 x 1080
Frame Rate: 23.976
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – compressed – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 00:01:57:12
Average Data Rate: 2.3 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.3333Thanks.
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3 Replies
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It sounds like the video you’re talking about it simply smaller resolution than the rest of your footage / your sequence settings. Just click on the clip and open up the “motion” effect in the effects window. Increasing the size, I bet, will fix your problem.
If that doesn’t work, could you be more specific about the two different types of footage you have?
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Thanks for the info. I followed your instruction and that didn’t work. The position = 720; scale = 100. These are same settings that are on regular/full size clip. The clip/footage has a black boarder around it and I want to stratch it so that the video is all they way to the edges. See the attached image. Thanks again for responding
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This has happened to me to and what I found out was that the footage was shot in 4:3 and not 16:9. Letterbox is the same as widescreen just as AC-3 is the same as Dolby Digital, they are just called different names by different users. Your picture looks like it wasn’t shot in 16:9?
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