How I remove Black Bars from my Video Clip?

I'm running iMovie 10.0.2 and OS X 10.9.2 on my Mac. I had just recently recieved a Mac and I'm used to Windows, so I'm a bit of a "noob".

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So as you can see, I have black bars on the sides of my video clip and I have no idea how to remove them. I don't want to remove the black bars by cutting some of the video off, I would much rather stretch/distort the videos to completely fit 1280-720. Is there a way of doing this? Once again, I'm a Mac noob, please be specifiec 🙂 thank you!


By the way, recording on my iPad!

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), iMovie 10.0.2

Posted on Mar 1, 2014 12:30 PM

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May 9, 2014 2:09 PM in response to calalk

You probably have as project setting "16:9", but your video itself is "4:3". You have to create the project again and have the setting "4:3" and then import the video again, this won't have crop (cut-off) any of your video. I'm not completely sure how it works on an iPad though, just on a Mac.


(Don't reply, even if this helped you.)

May 9, 2014 2:22 PM in response to g138

I don't think there's a 4:3 setting in iPhoto 10.0.2. It's simple software and will always export as widescreen.


You may be able to accomplish what you want with Handbrake, but I'm not sure. Handbrake will definately let you crop the video, but I don't know about stretching it back out. Test it on a short chunk of video and see if you can make it work. Maybe process once to remove the crop, and then process again to stretch? I don't know what that would do to the quality.


Anyway, test on a short clip and see if you can make it work. Let us know if you figure it out.

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