How remove sliver of pillarboxing?

[John Rofrano]

I looked at your footage and the black bars are actually part of your source video. There is nothing you can do about that except crop them out.

BTW, the project you uploaded was using an incredibly tiny 320×240 resolution that had a different aspect then your source video so that causes problems as well. You should keep your project at the same resolution as your source for best quality.

~jr

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[Peyton Todd]

I’m relieved that it was so easy to solve since that means there are not future gotchas (at least of this particular type) awaiting me as I continue to work through my data. Not only is the solution to this one available (thanks to you), but it’s easy to see that this situation must have arisen when I went ahead and saved a letterboxed video without fixing it.

As to the poor resolution, that could have either of two likely causes: (1) in my ignorance, I was experimenting with parameters, and had got more or less acceptable results with that setting; (2) at one point, I had decided to go with smaller videos to reduce the file size of the resulting PDFs, an approach I discontinued when a reviewer of a paper I wrote complained that he couldn’t see the signs clearly enough.

In case you’re curious, the project is about a child of normal hearing but deaf parents, whose early speech followed the grammar of his native sign language. Now that he’s an adult, I have videos of him expressing in sign language the same sentences he spoke as a child.

Thanks again,
Peyton