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tonyb4835892
tonyb4835892
Inspiring
October 24, 2022
Question

Frame sizes and black bars

  • October 24, 2022
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Good Monday morning and gratitude to anybody who can offer assistance. I know this must have been covered many times I just couldn't find the answer I'm looking for.

I'm trying to place a short video into a PowerPoint like interface. In a perfect world the screen size wouldn't be limited to the size of the phone. If I try to use a smaller frame size, say the YouTube settings, I get the dreaded "black bars" lol.

I think the best I've been able to do is export at full screen with a white background, imported the entire video into the editing software, with a white background, sent it to the back and added other assets over it.

This seems to be a work around (hoping not the only one) but makes sizing the actual object of the video tough.

The raw footage comes from a SnagIt screen recording which I'm attaching here.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

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tonyb4835892
tonyb4835892Author
Inspiring
October 25, 2022

So I figured it out. There is an export option "Match sequence preview settings" that does the trick. What you see in the program monitor is what you see in the final export. A matter of setting the frame size correctly.

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Community Expert
Carlos ZiadeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2022

so you want to export a 4:4 aspect ratio video to a 16:9 aspect ratio to post on social media or something?

either keep the white backdrop like you did, or maybe try to key out the white backdrop (ultra or color key)

so that you can have freedom moving the phone and resizing it at whatever screen size, also adding

behind it whatever backdrop. 

tonyb4835892
tonyb4835892Author
Inspiring
October 24, 2022

Thank you Carlos - your quick reply is certainly appreciated. I "think" that's where I landed as far as doing this in Premiere. Funny thing is a realized I can just use SnagIt to screen record at the size I need with a limited background as possible. It makes sense since SnagIt isn't worried about what ratio it's presented in. Thank you again.

 

 

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Community Expert
Carlos ZiadeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2022

you are welcome, good thing that you can record at different sizes in SnagIt as you mentioned,

I really don't know much about SnagIt recording options.

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