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How Can I Eliminate Black Bars on Exported Video?

Apr 19, 2012 3:08 PM

I'm a Premiere Pro CS5 newbie and just practicing with the Trial Version. I have widescreen source material, but the exported results have black bars on top and bottom. When uploaded to YouTube, black bars fill the sides (because the original media is somehow more square). The photos explain mainly what I'm talking about better than I could. How can I fix this? Maybe I have the wrong presets for my Sequence?

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1. shooternz,

Apr 19, 2012 3:16 PM in reply to inhonoredglory

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We cant tell if you have the wrong setting for your sequence because you have not told us anything about the source footage or the sequence settings?

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2. John T Smith,

Apr 19, 2012 3:35 PM in reply to inhonoredglory

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The first thing to do is make sure your project matches your video
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For CS5 and later, the easy way to insure that your video and your project match
See 2nd post for picture of NEW ITEM process http://forums.adobe.com/thread/872666
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Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
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Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... a screen
shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing
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For PC http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ or http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
For Mac http://mediainspector.massanti.com/
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http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-gree n-render-
bars.html
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If you have a red line over the timeline after importing a video and before adding any
effects... your project is wrong for your video... read above about codecs
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Once you know exactly what it is you are editing, report back with that information...
and your project setting, and if there is a red line above the video in the timeline,
which indicates a mismatch between video and project
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More information needed for someone to help... click these links and provided the
requested information
-http://forums.adobe.com/message/4200840
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/416679

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3. inhonoredglory,

Apr 19, 2012 3:52 PM in reply to shooternz

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Ah, yeah dummy me. Thanks for responding so quickly! I have two source materials:

The metadata for the first one, as listed in the Project panel:
720x368 (1.1852), 23.976 fps, 48000 Hz - Compressed - Stereo
And the second one:
720x478 (1.1852), 23.976 fps, 48000 Hz - Compressed - Stereo

My Sequence setting is 720x480 (1.2121), 29.97 fps, 48000 Hz - Stereo

It seems like I'd have to make 720x368 my Sequence setting. Would that be correct? Could I modify an existing Sequence? Or would I have to make a new one with that setting?

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4. John T Smith,

Apr 19, 2012 4:54 PM in reply to inhonoredglory

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For easy searching, download the product user guide PDF(s)
The individual CS5 pages also have links to the earlier user guide pages
CS5 User Guides - online and PDF (right click PDF link to save PDF to your hard drive)
http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2010/08/help-documents-for- creative-suite-5-pdf-and-html.html

Using the DESKTOP mode is first mentioned on page 134 of the PDF I downloaded for CS5... I don't know if the PDF changed for CS5.5

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