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Black bars on side of video

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
January 20, 2022
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This seems to be a common question and I'm very new to adobe premiere and somewhat confused on how to resolve the issue. When I see the preview of my video, I see black bars on the side, although I had scaled all footage I used to avoid this while creating the video.

What resources can I use to to learn more about video sizes and how to avoid this?

Is there a simple fix for this problem?

First screen shot shows the black bars in preview. If i changed it to scale to fill... then I lose text on the bottom from where I have different phrases come up alligned with audio..

John T Smith

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>What resources can I use

Some Tutorials to help you get started
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/get-started.html
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/premiere-pro-tutorial/td-p/10974406?page=1
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge/tips-amp-tricks-to-become-a-premiere-pro-power-user-with-abba-shapiro/td-p/10900149?page=1
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge/video-series-real-premiere-pro-secrets-by-cut-to-the-point/td-p/10900176?page=1
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge/podcast-art-of-the-cut-coup-53-editor-walter-murch-ace/td-p/10887889?page=1
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/how-to/premiere-pro-nesting-sequence-cc.html
https://community.adobe.com/t5/video-lounge-discussions/premiere-pro-effects-explained-for-beginners/td-p/12626342

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sarah22729688jqogAuthor

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Thank you very much

R Neil Haugen

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A very good way for those new to editing to get the proper sequence framesize to start is to simply drag/drop a clip onto the blank timeline panel. Premiere checks the clip properties, and makes a sequence with the same framesize, framerate, and audio channels as the clip.

You can also right-click a clip in the bin, and select new sequence from clip, which does the same thing.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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sarah22729688jqogAuthor

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now that i changed the settings to have every sequence export as 1920x1080 all my sequences are... off center, not where they are supposed to be and all the panning effects I added are gone.. does this all have to be re-done? and If i scale the clips back to where they are supposed to be, will that degrade the quality again?

Averdahl

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Is there a simple fix for this problem?

By @sarah22729688jqog

You are editing your footage in a 4:3 SD sequence with a resolution of 720x480 and are exporting to HD at 16:9 with a resolution of 1920x1080. Ths gives black bars and bad video quality output.

So, are your source video 720x480?

If the source video is 1920x1080, go to Sequence > Sequence Settings and set the Editing Mode to Custom and change the Width to 1920, change the height to 1080, change the Pixel Aspect Ratio to 1.0.

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sarah22729688jqogAuthor

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Thank you so much for the advice. I made that change and now all the clips I have in my video... are completely incorrect in sizing and position, does this resolve when you export or does everything have to be edited and scaled again?

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sarah22729688jqogAuthor

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