Fitting everything in the video without the black bars

Johny_Olde wrote on 1/14/2018, 7:22 PM


I'm tired of this black bar thing where I can't put images in the far side of the screen. I had a method of fitting videos but the images are a problem. Sometimes I want to turn the images narrow vertically so I can put them on the side and another on the other side. I don't remember how I did this before but it was when I was scrolling images from left to right. I was able to stretch them or squish them in narrowly. Now I don't think this program will let me unless I missed something. Who can help me with this one?

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OldSmoke wrote on 1/14/2018, 7:36 PM

Have you tried Pan/Crop in combination with Track Motion?

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Johny_Olde wrote on 1/14/2018, 7:52 PM

Have you tried Pan/Crop in combination with Track Motion?

yeah, the video I posted shows that I tried them both. If I want to get rid of the black bars, I have to fatten the image to fit it all. But I don't want to do that. I want it left as is; narrow vertically so I can put it on the left side and another image on the right side.

Johny_Olde wrote on 1/14/2018, 7:55 PM

Oh crap, I think I just figured it out. By right clicking on the preview screen, you UNCHECK 'Scale Video to Fit Preview Window.' Lucky guess ~_~

Well in case anybody is curious about this common problem, there you go!

Marco. wrote on 1/15/2018, 3:26 AM

I doubt this will solve your black bar problem. It just makes your preview showing only a fraction of your actual video (but in real the black bars would still be present). You need to use Pan/Crop or/and Track Motion.

Musicvid wrote on 1/15/2018, 9:16 AM

Johnny_Olds, the word for this is "Aspect."

It means the shape of the video (display aspect) compared to the shape of the screen (screen aspect).

https://resources.shopwired.co.uk/articles/images/aspect-ratios

Since the two are not the same in your case, you could stretch, crop, or live with the borders.

You most often want to do this with Track Motion, not pan/crop.

The fourth option, rendering in portrait mode, is still in its infancy wrt streaming player support.

joseph-w wrote on 1/16/2018, 1:34 AM

Open pan and crop, right click, pick "Match output aspect". Re-adjust the shape to place the image where you want. That should fix your problem.

 

If you find you have bars on render that you don't see while working in Vegas go in to File/Project properties and uncheck adjust source media to better match project or rendering settings.