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premier elemets 2018 black bars on youtube videos issue

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 31, 2020
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I am using Premier elements 2018 and as I export my videos and upload on youtube I always get black bars all around. I have tried to export it in Quick export, Devices, Online I get the same result. I have looked everywhere for the answer but no luck. I am using video clips from youtube and re-editing them and I have this issue. Can someone help......Thank you in advance!

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Bill Sprague

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640x360 does not match 640 horizontall, 480 vertical. You are off by 120 on the vertical.

Premiere Elements is made to work on consumer camera footage. I don't know how to force it to create a 640x360 project for editing downloaded files.

eithisAuthor

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Ok that makes sense. The videos are not recorded by me, they are music videos from YouTube and Instagram. What I understand is that I always get the bars around.

Thank you for your explanation and help.

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Steve Grisetti

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Video ripped from the web has its own challenges based on the software that created the file. So we'll need to go back even further.

Open one of your music files in the free download MediaInfo. In MediaInfo, set View to Text and then copy the report it generates and paste it to this forum. This will tell us necessary stuff about your source video.

Then, as Bill indicates, your project settings are not for a widescreen video. They for a 4:3 project, which is why you are seeing bars on the sides when you post it to YouTube.

We can show you how to work around this once we know the MediaInfo specs on your source video.

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Bill Sprague

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"original videos are widescreen"

That's not enough to figure this out. Where does the video come from. What are the pixel dimentsions of the video? And, what are the project settings? Have to get past this part to figure out if the black bars are coming from the source, the project or the final output.

eithisAuthor

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The video is from YouTube Mpeg movie. Image size: 640x360 frame rate: 23.97 pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0

In the project setting:

Frame size: 640 horizontall 480 vertical

Hope this helps.

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

The source video specifications, project settings and output rendering all have to match. To get this sorted out, how are you captureing thie YouTube video, how are you setting up the project and want are the project settings?

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Steve Grisetti

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I agree with Bill. You'll need to give us some details, including the specs of your Export & Share.

eithisAuthor

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Hi Steve, I will try to provide as much information as I can and thank you for your response.

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