Clearing black bars on top and bottom of video

thelostcity wrote on 7/12/2010, 11:25 PM
HELP!!!

I posted this in the wrong forum so i will copy and paste everything i did from the old on and hopefully someone can help me!!
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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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Then I did some stuff people suggested and here is my response:

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?

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/12/2010, 11:46 PM
1) Use Mpeg Streamclip to transcode your footage. (Use Eugenia's tutorial): you will get fluent playback in preview.
Tutorial: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/images2/avid5d.png
General tutorial: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2010/03/14/starting-up-with-a-dslr-and-sony-vegas/

2) Render to the 720p template (mp4 or wmv, dependig on your version of VMS)
thelostcity wrote on 7/13/2010, 9:47 PM
what do you mean by transcode?
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/13/2010, 11:35 PM
Your camera's video files are very much compressed, which makes it hard to edit in Vegas (or anything else). We use Mpeg Streamclip to make a much less compressed ( and also much bigger) copy of those files (=transcoding). Those new files are much easier to edit (you get fluent preview and they won't crash Vegas). Once your video is rendered, you can delete those huge files from your drive.
Mpeg Streamclip is free, and so is the DNXHD codec. You could also choose to use Neoscene, which is commercial, and costs $100.