Removing the black side bars, witout stretching the picture ?

[Wayne Waag]

Very easy. Open pan/crop window, place cursor somewhere over image, right-click and select Match Output Aspect. That’s it. Picture will fill frame and aspect ratio maintained.

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[Peter Rea]

Hi Wayne,

thanks for the reply.

Yes that´s something i knew and tried already, but the problem here is that it will basically zoom in the picture, and the result is that the parts on the side will be cutted off.

But i want to keep every pixel from the photo, something i haven´t achieved yet.

Either parts of the photo will be cutted off, or with the “match output Aspect” solution everything is there, but stretched.

Is it really impossible to keep the original ratio, without creating a new problem ?

Bye the way, i found a solution, which isn´t the best, but it works.
Before i import the picture, i make it thinner with Gimp 2, and then in Vegas i do the “Match output ratio” thing which stretches it again, to the original size ( and the black bars are gone ).

Well i was hoping for an easier way, but maybe it´s not possible in Vegas.

Thanks again.

regards,
Peter

[Wayne Waag]

Peter,

If you want to fill the frame, there are only 2 options. First, you can crop the image to the same aspect ratio as your project, in which case, you will lose parts of that image. Second, you can distort the image so that all pixels are used, by stretching the image in the dimensions where the black bars appear. So basically, it’s your choice–a cropped image or a distorted image. When 16:9 TVs appeared, manufacturers came up with a variety of algorithms to stretch a normal 4:3 image source to 16:9, from simple linear stretching across the entire horizontal axis to more complex where the central part of the image was about right and that the stretch increased dramatically toward the ends. Vegas can easily do the simple linear stretching. Simply disable “maintain aspect ratio” in the pan/crop windows and zoom out in the horizontal axis only. Another option to consider would be to simply use the image “as is” and add some type of background track to eliminate the black bars. There are lots of ways to do this.

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[Peter Rea]

Hi Wayne,

thanks again for help.

I will try out your advices.

regards,
Peter

[Jericho Achas]

Figured it out. I am using Vegas Pro 13 and I think this would help though it works for me. First I rendered my 1080×720 pixels video to mp4 and I can see the black bars on the preview so I canceled the process, and then I rendered it again but this time I checked the Adjust frame rate box on the render options, then I started rendering. On the preview, it doesn’t show black bars yet I’m not really sure what that ‘adjust frame rate’ do so I still canceled the process. Finally, I rendered it normally without checking the ‘Adjust frame rate’ box then I started rendering, it’s not showing black bars and oh it works! no more black bars without stretching the image! It worked on me, I hope yours too. 🙂