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Need to get letterbox film look best approach
I wanted to get the letter box look effect as a final video for website page and youtube….. which quite a few folk are doing and seen a lot lately in tv adverts etc.
I Just want the letterbox effect to be vertical as in bars top and bottom and keeps the width full…****I know you can do this in pan and crop and adjust height however I do need to apply transitions effects and color correction and was wondering best way to approach this i.e. color corrections to entire clip THEN set pan and crop when done and then edit split each clip and whatever ever effects transitions
*****What size height setting should I use if done via pan and crop for letterbox look
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iI it better to do it by first create a project setting to give me the bars top and bottom if so what setting size please ( my orginal video camera footage is 1920 1080)I can then add the video and do a match ratio output over in crop and pan to ensure size match.
and what should I THEN render to once effects etc edits have been done?
The thing is I am also doing a few letter box looks to videos and will be adding maybe a few different video media clips to time line
Please give me some pointers many thanks!
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[jenny gold] “Is it better to do it by first create a project setting to give me the bars top and bottom if so what setting size please ( my orginal video camera footage is 1920 1080)I can then add the video and do a match ratio output over in crop and pan to ensure size match. “
Yes, The secret is to set your project up for the wide screen ratio that you want first and then let the render add the black bars for you later.
First you must decide what cinematic aspect ratio your are going after. Let’s say you want to use one of the American cinemas projection ratios of 2.39:1. To obtain the project size you divide the width of your media 1920 by 2.39 and get 803.3472. Since we can’t have fractional pixel we round down to 803 and that should be the height of your project. Open your project properties and change them to 1920×803 and you will have a nice 2.39:1 cinematic project. Do all of your editing like this. When you are ready to render, select a template that is 1920×1080 and Vegas Pro will happily add true back bars to the top and bottom of your frame just as you wanted.
~jr
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Many thanks John for jumping in and explaining – I had spotted one of your posts on this quite a while back re Letter box effect look and doing all effects editing etc rather than pan and crop to get black bar letterbox approach
One thing with final render settingsIf rendering to 1920 x1080 it pulls in the actual width the right and left side and not quite full screen Width and gap when viewed with whatever player. My render template was MP4 (AVC/AAC)
1280 x720 was perfect (template used MP4 (AVC/AAC) great all around I get the bar top and bottom effect and full width which I want for render template I use of 1280 x720 which frankly all I need for youtube and website pages
****I was wondering why the larger final render of 1920 x1080 one did not go full width?
Jenny gold
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[jenny gold] “I was wondering why the larger final render of 1920 x1080 one did not go full width?”
That is odd because both 1280×720 and 1920×1080 are a perfect 16:9. You can try a test where you make your project 1920×804 instead of 1920×803 (remember we rounded down?) and render to see if rounding up instead of down makes a difference.
~jr
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Hi John
I tried for the 1920×1080 final render as you suggested project setting 804 still the same narrowing of width *****infact I even did 820 and more same issue… yet the 1280 x720 one as explained works great!Perhaps I have something in my final render template settings maybe creating this issue ?
I am doing the usual to the media clip when added to time line in pan and crop match output aspectanymore thoughts?
Jenny -
Maybe there is some setting in your 1080 template that’s wrong. I would use the built-in Sony templates and see how they look like the MainConcept AVC template “Internet HD 1080…”
~jr
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http://www.vasst.com
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