sony Vegas and Blur

[John Rofrano]

The first questions is why do you have black bars? There should never be black bars in your project. If you want to work in a different aspect ratio then set your project up for that aspect and edit in that aspect and then have the black bars added when you render to a different aspect. This will keep any FX from affecting the black bars.

If you insist on working with black bars in your project you could use a Mask and set it to limit the FX (i.e., Apply to FX):

But that’s a lot of work. You could also create black bas with generated media and drop them on a track above your entire project but it’s better to not have black bars in your project at all.

~jr

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[Gennady Gaidukevich]

I use black bars to make cinema effect

[Wayne Waag]

Easier still, just crop your video event as you’ve already done and create a track beneath it that is solid black. Or you could create your black bars in Photoshop, save as a png and place it in the track above. Lots of ways to do this.

wwaag