Can someone explain how to remove the black bars in a video?

[sequoiajosh]

The letterbox effect has already been place in the video. I want to crop the video to where the letterbox bars are no longer showing, and it's just the video. I want to get rid of these because if not, the motion tiles in After Effects will not work.

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[John T Smith]

My video fits my sequence, but I think you use the "Scale to Fill" option when exporting

[Stan Jones]

I think he's saying the bars are burned in.

Josh, my estimate from your image is that you have a "cinematic" aspect ratio of about 2.6:1. You can remove the bars by cropping to the active area and exporting.

It seems to me that all you need to do is to adjust the positioning of the AE elements, and leave, or remove, the black  bars on export.

The problem is that you must know and set up the AE composition, either way, based on the pixel size you will use on export.

[sequoiajosh]

How would I crop? If I use the crop effect in the effects panel, it does not change anything. I also do not understand the exporting part.

[R Neil Haugen]

I'm with Ann ... that image is "squashed" or flattened a bit. Is it supposed to be so?

I want to see the clip properties information ... not the sequence, the clip. Right click on that clip, select "properties", and give us a screen-grab of the information. Then either right-click on the sequence in the Project panel or from the menu bar, Sequence/Settings, and do a screen-grab of that box. I'll be interested to see the pixel aspect ratios.

If that clip isn't showing right, it could be simply that you've got the wrong shape pixels set ... and with correct pixel shape, you might not have the bars top/bottom.

Neil

[Ann Bens]

Guessing something like this:

[sequoiajosh]

i changed the sequence to 1920 x 816 pixels and it came out too wide. I'll post the current sequence settings.

[sequoiajosh]

    Hopefully, this helps.

[R Neil Haugen]

Hard to tell from that screen-grab, which I think is the clip info? I really only needed to see the clip info dialog box, not any part of the general UI. But if that is the clip info, it's 2550x1440? With an aspect ratio of 1?

What's the sequence it was on for that first shot? Frame-size & pixel aspect?

And ... that first view, with bars top/bottom, is that the way that clip appears in say VLC or Potplayer? (Just the clip, outside of PrPro).

Neil

[Ann Bens]

What is the final product going to be?

2550x1440 is not your average size frame

I am guessing 2550x1096.

But it you want 16:9 you either end up with black bars or the sides cut off.

[Ann Bens]

Just drop it in a timeline that is the same size as the clip without the black bars or crop on export in the export settings.

Hard to tell what the sequence setting should be as you image is squashed.

Guessing if it regular HD: 1920x816.

[Olek1]

You have to change the Height in the Menu / Composition / Composition Settings, and move a visible area inside of, after all. Hint use a "Preview" checkbox, when you'll try to set the dimensions are...