How to remove black Bars?

[Lisa33233087iylg]

Can someone please explain to me how to remove the black bars left and right in my video project? I have already tried it with the scale function and the crop effect. Unfortunately unsuccessful...

[Bill Sprague]

Need a little more information.  What is the source and specification of the video files?  What are the project settings?  What version of Premiere Elements are you using?  Can you post a screen shot of the preview window with the black bars?

[Lisa33233087iylg]

I have the version Adobe Premiere Elements 2023. It is about the production of explainer videos in the form of screen recordings, which I recorded with the tool Screenpresso. I would like to cut these in elements. I have attached screenshots of the preview in Elements and of the project settings. The language is set to German, I hope you can help me anyway. Also from the format of the inserted videos from Screenpresso. I would like to adjust the format (without black bars) for individual videos.

[Lisa33233087iylg]

The videos I edit in Elements come from Screenpresso. I have attached screenshots of Elements and Screenpresso. I would like to adjust the format for individual videos only, not for the entire movie.

[Bill Sprague]

The issue is not the black bars.  It is that most screens we watch on are a 1.8 ration.  (1920 x 1080).  Your project matches as it should.   A quick look at Screenpresso suggests that you can capture any part of a screen by drawing a box to select it.  You captured 1248 x 872 which has a 1.4 ratio.   In other words, you have different sized rectangles.  

You can fill in the black bars by stretching your screen capture.  To do so, open the "Applied Effects",  uncheck the  Uniform Scale box and adjust the Scale width.   If you don't like the stretching effect, you will have to recapture your screen at a 1920x1080 ratio.  

There is no project setting to match your 1248x872.  Even if there was, playback on any typical screen would have to have black bars.  

[Ann Bens]

@Bill Sprague  If you uncheck Uniform Scale the image will look distorted in a non-matching setting.

[Amit Kumar Gupta]

The black bars are introduced because the project settings do not match the video clip.

You can either  scale up the video manually using Motion in Applied Effects or automatically using Autoreframe feature to scale and fit the video.

however, It may crop some portion of the video