How to create borders for a video in photoshop?

[bhavickp35529027]

Hey,

Am fairly new to photoshop and after messing around with it for a couple of hours i created two top and bottom borders for the video below:

https://www.facebook.com/lifestyleandpower/videos/155342105049855/

The thing i am not happy with the borders as they are covering parts of the video and i wanted the borders to be outside of the video and not obstructing any of the video, something similar to the video below would be ideal.

https://www.facebook.com/hiphopmotivations/videos/1938426629771070/

Any ideas how i can do this please, i would really appreciate any help i can get on this.

Thanks

[davescm]

Open your video in Photoshop

Use the crop tool to increase the canvas at the top and bottom by dragging the handles

Now add your borders as new layers and render your video at the new size

Dave

[bhavickp35529027]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. Lets say i create a border in photo shop how do i duplicate it so both the top and bottom sizes are the same? Lastly if i want to edit the video to start from a certain point am i able to do that with Photoshop or premiere pro?

Thanks

[davescm]

Hi

To ensure the added canvas is the same above and below, instead of using the crop tool use Image Canvas size and keep the anchor central so that the new canvas is added equally to the top and bottom.

For editing video, whilst you can use Photoshop, if you have Premiere Pro I would use it. It was designed from the ground up for video editing.

Dave

[Chuck Uebele]

If you're video is the size you want it - say a standard size, you might want to wrap your video in a smart object then reduce that to fit your border rather than increase the canvas size. And I agree what Premier Pro would be a better choice.

[bhavickp35529027]

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies i really appreciate it. What i've done so far is import the video in to photoshop and used the crop tool to create the top and bottom borders which i've done successfully. I then saved the project in photoshop and uploaded it to premiere pro and i've tried to export the media in premiere pro but when i try and play the video after it's frozen on the first screen and it doesn't play the video? Any ideas on how to sort this out please?

Thanks