I have seen a fair few videos online which have been cropped to widescreen size but without black bars top and bottom, I have tried without success to do this myself, using the crop tools in FCP, but all to no avail, I always end up with black bars top and bottom, can anyone enlighten me as to how this is done?
Thanks
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Not all widescreen videos are cropped. you could shoot in 19:9 If you want to take it further, I always prefer to do my cropping in compressor. Modify the appropriate preset, save as, then you can do it over and over again with no fuss.
It may be the player that is displaying the bars...
YouTubes new player is made for 16:9 so anyhting 4:3 will have the bars on the sides...
make sure your video files you are exporting are 16:9
Export out of fcp with CURRENT SETTINGS. Bring the file into compressor and go to the geometry section to CROP to 16:9. Make sure and check the preview window to see what the results will be.
Hi There,
If you want to edit in a widescreen format, create a sequence and change it's settings to one of a Widescreen nature, like HD1080 or 1024x576 (in planet UK).
Now, you may need to change the distortion and scale to fit but right away you can copy pasting from your old timelines into the new. New clips added from the project window will automatically be scaled and cropped into the widescreen display to maintain the correct visual aspect.
Hope this helps
Pi
Thank You Michael that was the answer I was looking for. Perfect! 🙂
Cropping a Video
