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Where are the black bars? Widescreen video
I am using Adobe Premiere 6.0
When uploading a movie that I filmed with my camera’s widescreen feature, I notice that when I bring the movie file into Premiere, the widescreen bars are gone. They are still gone when I save the movie to the desktop as the final product.
The original movie file was downloaded to the hard disk via the windows movie maker utility because I was having the same problem when I tried to upload it using Premiere.
I checked and the file that is saved on the hard disk from the camera is widescreen.
How can I get Premiere to recognize it as widescreen and show the bars????
Thank you so much.
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5 Replies
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Felipe- The black bars aren’t necessary. Just because the bars aren’t there doesn’t mean it’s not widescreen.
Your camera and Premiere are dealing with “native” widescreen material. Meaning it’s designed to be viewed as widescreen, like a 16:9 HDTV, not scaled down on a standard 4:3 monitor. (Your camera’s LCD is likely 4:3, which is why you were seeing black bars.)
Unless your image is being squished to fit 4:3, which is a different issue altogether, I don’t see that you’re having a problem.
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Thank you.
I changed the settings of the project file to widescreen and when I did the output I chose widescreen again. That worked. I was used to my old camera which I guess just added black bars on top of the 4:3 video – not true widescreen. -
Well, then again..
I would like to see black bars but that’s not the main issue now. Sometimes the video looks stretched up and down. Could you advise what settings to use so that it doesn’t get distorted?
Sorry, I tried saving it again and couldn’t get the settings right.
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If your video looks vertically stretched in the monitor window, then you probably aren’t using the right settings. Make sure your project uses widescreen settings.
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I have a question very similar to Filipe’s:
I made the stupid mistake of recording some footage for a project in widescreen format, and some footage in 4:3. What is the best way to work in Premiere 6.0, the widescreen settings or the 4:3 settings?
Will working with a messed up project like this cause Export problems?
Thanks
Rick
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