Clearing black bars on top and bottom of video

thelostcity wrote on 7/11/2010, 12:02 PM
Help me!! When I post my videos to youtube, the actual video is in a little rectangle on the page and there are black bars on the top and sides of the video.

The camera im using is the Canon Vixia HF200 and when i upload the videos straight from the camera to you tube, its full screen, HD and perfect like this and can go up to 1080p

However when I start editing in Vegas it ends up like this:

I probably should also add, I render the videos as avi, so that in editing the playback isnt choppy because the video is so HD. I tryied to change the aspect ratio, and even on the video, Right clicked, properties, then unchecked "maintain aspect ratio" but no dice.

HELP!!

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John_Cline wrote on 7/11/2010, 12:54 PM
What resolution are you rendering and what codec and settings?
musicvid10 wrote on 7/11/2010, 1:05 PM
Looks like you put a 16:9 video in a 4:3 screen aspect.
Use a Widescreen rendering template.
thelostcity wrote on 7/11/2010, 11:48 PM
How can I find what resolution and codec settings? Where are those?

Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 29.97 fps, 720x480, Lower field first.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.909. OpenDML compatible.
NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.

I just copied that from when i click "render as"
thelostcity wrote on 7/11/2010, 11:49 PM
How do I do that?

Do you think I could change the camera settings to work in 4:3?
John_Cline wrote on 7/12/2010, 12:09 AM
Musicvid called it. When you place a widescreen video in a 4x3 project, it will letterbox it in the final render. When you upload that to YouTube, it plays it as a 4x3 project inside a 16x9 display window. You will see huge vertical black bars on the left and right and pretty large black bars on the top and bottom.

Since you're shooting HD, set the Vegas Project Properties to either "HD 1080-60i" or "HDV 720-30P" and make sure that the "Deinterlace method" is set to "Interpolate." Then render out using "Sony AVC" as the "Save as Type" and "Internet 16x9 HD 30p" as the template. (This is a simplification of the process, you may want to tweak the settings a bit if you're shooting HD progressive instead of interlaced.)
thelostcity wrote on 7/12/2010, 9:18 PM
i did the settings you suggested and here is a screen cap of the changes... the 2nd pictures really should be the first one but here

http://i30.tinypic.com/pm0lj.jpg

then i took some test footage of textured objects in my house to see if they are maintaining quality, and they arent. severely arent. i did what you said and here is the finished product:



its really blurry. For some reason when i went looking for the "internet 16x9 HD 30p" I couldnt find it, so i assumed you were talking about youtube?

Then i changed another setting. Rendered avi format with a HD 1080-60i YUV , and it was perfect. Fulls screen and maintained HD quality, problem is that 40-second video took up 5 1/2 GB of space!

Is there any way to compress that ^ to a reasonable size without changing the aspect ratio yet again?
musicvid10 wrote on 7/12/2010, 9:58 PM
The first thing I noticed is that you are using Vegas Movie Studio --this is the Vegas Pro forum -- different software.

Although we would like to help you here, the templates and the settings are different. If the suggestions here aren't working for you, maybe you would do better posting your question in the Vegas Movie Studio forum.
John_Cline wrote on 7/12/2010, 11:18 PM
Oh, Vegas Movie Studio.... nevermind.
thelostcity wrote on 7/12/2010, 11:26 PM
sorry.. thanks anyway guys