I Need Some Vegas Help - Getting Rid of The Black Bars in WideScreen Content
 

I have some video I recorded in HD-Wide on my HV30. When I capture it into Vegas Pro 8.0, I see the black bars along the top and bottom which is normally fine.

But I need to get rid of those black bars for a project I'm working on. How do I encode this video without the black bars? Even if I have to crop it, that's fine. I've tried the pan/crop tool but that stills leaves the bars in there due to the aspect ratio.

Anyone? Thank you in advance for your help.

Steve

Hey Steve, I also have an HV30, your black bars are border bars that are on your video to keep your aspect ratio in the format that you encoded them. To remove them, you simply have to go under your settings when your post producing your clip and adjust your aspect ratio. Do it manually, otherwise the render will keep the bars on top and bottom. Another words, 1600x900 as opposed to 1600x1200, or you can divide the horizontal pixel count by 2 and add that to your vertical count. If I am understanding your question correctly. :thumbsup

Hello my new best friend :-)

I think you are indeed answering my question but I don't know the exact keystrokes to make it happen. Can you tell me EXACTLY what to click and where?

I post produce with Final Cut and sometimes Premiere. I know it's Sony based. Check the Preferences menu and click from automatic to manual as far as resizing. OR When you are outputing the video, do it manually, the program should give you prompts for deinterlacing, keyframe, yada yada, you need to find the control panel that gives you boxes that you can type in your new aspect ratio. Also make sure your aspect ratio is set on widescreen and not 4x3.

You can make the video any size you want, but just remember man, your doing 16x9, not 16x10, 4x3 or any other aspect ratio. Your pixels should match up to 16x9, like 800x450.

Maybe there is someone around that is more familiar with Vegas. I'm on a Mac.

Hope that helped, at least you know why your program is encoding title boxes if anything. Just seems like you have some of your settings on "auto"

Outsource to us :)

Aw, better that the kid learns it himself, if he is a producer.

go to file/properties, set the project properties to match your video properties,
to find your video properties right click the video in the timeline go to properties, click on the "media" tab

Actually, what I ended up doing is right clicking the video on the timeline, click on switches and then clicking off "maintain aspect ratio" and BAM, all done. :-)

Thanks all for your help. Lots of good ideas I'm going to play around with.

you got somethin against black people in vegas bars? well fuck you :1orglaugh

i guess no one thought that was funny. well fuck you too :1orglaugh