So to wrap everything up shortly, I´ve got the problem that I can´t or at least don´t know if I can stretch my 4:3 videos so that they don´t have these ugly black bars on the left and right side. I´d like to make some videos for my friends and me, but I only got 4:3 1280:960 recordings. Can someone tell or explain me how to stretch the recording or remove the black bars?
I appreciate every kind of try to help.
Greetings.
Hi
This can be done, however unless you want people and other subjects in your video to look short and fat/wide you will have to crop/zoom the image, losing some of the top, bottom or both.
Without knowing the specific version of Movie Edit Pro you are using in general terms you can use:
HTH
John EB
Thank you very much.
I am currently using the most recent version of Magix Movie Edit Pro (Premium) which I bought a few days ago, hoping I could fix some problems I had with other programs before.
However your answer is the solution of my problem, kind of.
What I didn´t know is, that I can´t remove the black bars without losing something from the video itself.
I guess I have to be comfortable with the black bars or the lost of the upper/under screen.
This should be it, thank you once again.
Hope you have a great day :)
Hi
. . . . What I didn´t know is, that I can´t remove the black bars without losing something from the video itself. . . .
When taken to the same width as 16:9 ie 16 units wide the 4:3 aspect ratio becomes 16:12 ie 16 units wide, however the height is 12 unit which is greater than the 9 units available, so 3 units of height (25%) must be removed.
If you do not crop the image and just 'squash' it to fit the 16:9 this is what happens
4:3 Original
Above image squashed to 16:9
There is a way of avoiding black bars using the the same image or video clip twice as shown below
the result is
HTH
John EB
Hi,
You can always set your project to the same ratio as your recordings and export the same format - 4:3 1280:960.
However, if your playback is on an HD TV, the format will be 16:9, not 4:3, so you will not fill the screen from left to right. The same applies to a computer. The screen is likely 16:9, so if you play the file in full screen, you will still have the background of your monitor at the left and right.
To exaggerate, imagine using a camera that took round images and then trying to play that back on a rectangular screen. If you want the image to fill the screen, then you have to zoom in until it does, losing parts at the left, right, top and bottom, otherwise you will have black sectors at the upper left and right and lower left and right.
Once more, if your screen is 16 inches wide by 9 inches high, or any multiple of that, but your video is 4:3, so increasing that to fit without cropping anything means 3 times the dimensions, that is, 3x4=12 inches wide by 3x3 = 9 inches high. 16-12=4 inches of the width that is going to be black.
Greetings, something that I've done in the past that works, depending on your viewpoint.
Put 2 copies of the video into the 16:9 project, one on top of the other. Right click on the top file and select "object properties" - change the aspect ration to 16:9 (the original should be 4:3) and click OK.
You should now see in the viewer a 4:3 picture with a stretched 16:9 picture behind.
Now, again with the top video, apply as much blur from the effects tab as required or possible, depending on taste.
You should now see a clear 4:3 picture with the edges showing the same (similar) movement at the edges (?). This, I find after a minute or two of viewing, effectively masks the bars issue.
Hope this helps.
AndyW
I just came back from school and I see your answers, thank y´all for helping me fixing my little problem.
I am pretty happy with all suggestions, they are helping me quite a lot.
Yet again thank you all for helping me. 😊