2 Replies Latest reply: Jul 17, 2014 2:06 PM by kimpineallstars RSS

    How do I crop out the pillarboxes in my video without losing quality?

    kimpineallstars

      Hello all.

      I'm using Adobe Premiere CS6 right now to edit a promo video I did, but I have the problem of black boxes all around the video. I have tried to stretch it to fit but the quality suffered dramatically. I tried to crop it to 16:9 but the same thing happened with the quality. I'm okay with a little bit of letterboxing, but preferably I would like the video to fit the screen. I am trying to upload to Youtube.

       

      I shot the video with a Canon EOS Rebel T3, which has an aspect ratio of 3:2. It records up to 720p. So Basically I'm just trying to get rid of the black borders while keeping the video at 720p quality.

       

      I tried exporting in H.264, MPEG, MPEG-4, cropping, stretching, but something always either gets cut off or the quality suffers or both.

       

      If you need more info I'll provide what I can, just ask. Thanks.