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  • The infernal black bars

    Posted by Matt Engelson on February 20, 2017 at 4:18 am

    I’m sure this has been asked before, but I’m a noob.

    I rendered a video, matching to the source video in the export settings. I get the black bars around the entire video on Youtube. I know the aspect ratio of Youtube is 16:9. I filmed the video on a Canon DSLR with full HD settings.

    The images uploaded with this are the settings described on the video file and the settings on Premiere when I hit match source. It’s using the H.264 codec.

    Thanks for your help!!



    Chris Borjis replied 9 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Tero Ahlfors

    February 20, 2017 at 5:12 am

    720×480 is not 16:9 in a square pixel aspect ratio.

  • Jon Doughtie

    February 20, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    Tell us more about the original footage youa re working with (source of footage and resolution) and the settings for your Premiere Pro project timeline (resolution/pixel aspect ratio) in particular.

    System:
    Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
    Win 7 64-bit
    32GB RAM
    Adobe CC 2015.02 (as of 6/2016)
    256GB SSD system drive
    4 internal media drives RAID 5
    Typically cutting short form from HD MP4 and P2 MXF.

  • Matt Engelson

    February 20, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    Right, I get that. That’s the thing though, the original video is 1920×1080 but when I put that into the timeline, I get the black bars all around the frame in the preview video.

  • Chris Borjis

    February 20, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    drop the 1920×1080 into a new sequence export that.
    Shouldn’t be any bars.

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