I think the issue is caused by the video being recorded by a phone that was held in the vertical orientation, so the video is 9:16 instead of 16:9.

The way to do what you are after is to either crop way in on the video, which you can do using the track motion effect in each track's control panel, then stretch the image until it fills the screen (make sure you have your height and width locked together when stretching... there are buttons in the control panel that do this... or you'll distort the image).

Another method they sometimes use is to leave the video the same in the middle, but put another clone of the same video on the track below, scale it until it fills the screen entirely, then apply a blur effect to it. You'd use this in cases where cropping in on the video to make it fill the screen cuts out parts of the scene that you need to be able to see.

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I think the issue is caused by the video being recorded by a phone that was held in the vertical orientation, so the video is 9:16 instead of 16:9.

The way to do what you are after is to either crop way in on the video, which you can do using the track motion effect in each track's control panel, then stretch the image until it fills the screen (make sure you have your height and width locked together when stretching... there are buttons in the control panel that do this... or you'll distort the image).

Another method they sometimes use is to leave the video the same in the middle, but put another clone of the same video on the track below, scale it until it fills the screen entirely, then apply a blur effect to it. You'd use this in cases where cropping in on the video to make it fill the screen cuts out parts of the scene that you need to be able to see.

Hi thanks to all of you for helping and commenting here. Really appreciaite.

I have tried to implement what you are saying, but I am unable to complete it. I have attached a video where you can see what I am doing. Could you plz tell me what I am doing wrong because I am unable to move the track upwards, i can move it left and right but not up where i need to have it.

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thanks a lot for the fast reply john. That really helped..But sorry guys i still need help..i am now able to move up and down but i am unable to stretch the video....as you can see in the attached video im not able to stretch the videoso that it is full screen. can any of you help me with this plz?

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You don't want to stretch the video just horizontally like that, it will distort the video. The only way to get the video to fill the screen is to stretch both the horizontal and vertical together, which can be done by clicking the button on the left side of the menu that locks them together. This will crop some of the image out as you zoom in on it, but it is far better than stretching the video way out of proportion to make it fit a wide screen.

The first example shows how to do it without distortion, but with a crop, the second shows how to do it with distortion.

I would think the natural thing to do here is to copy the clip to another track, stretch and blur that while syncing with the original at the original aspect ratio on the track above. You don't get a full screen but the implication is that the original was as it was -- and no black bars.

Similar is done to portrait phone clips quite often.

You don't want to stretch the video just horizontally like that, it will distort the video. The only way to get the video to fill the screen is to stretch both the horizontal and vertical together, which can be done by clicking the button on the left side of the menu that locks them together. This will crop some of the image out as you zoom in on it, but it is far better than stretching the video way out of proportion to make it fit a wide screen.

The first example shows how to do it without distortion, but with a crop, the second shows how to do it with distortion.

Thank you all so much for the help. I learned so much from all of this, I have tried frosty's approach. I think this is so far the most easiest way for me to solve it.. Thanks again everyone