Premiere Pro Black Border Issues

[bayleafbee]

I'm currently trying to export a video through Premiere under the Youtube 1080 HD setting, but unfortunately when I choose that setting a black border appears around the contents of my video. All the images used in the video are set at 1920 x 1080 so this should not be occurring.

I have checked all my image sizes and they are definitely 1920 x 1080

I've exited out of the system to see if it's a glitch and this still occurs.

If I click "Scale to Fill" in the Source Scaling option the Preset automatically changes to "Custom" when I want the Youtube 1080 HD preset.

Would love help and feedback! Thanks!

[Dave Merchant]

That's because your source (the Premiere timeline) is set to a 0.9 pixel aspect ratio, so it's not 1920x1080 - just stretched to look like it is.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Select sequence in Project Window, go up to Sequence / Sequence Settings

Change the aspect ratio to square pixels 1.0.

Scale to fill is only usefull when going from HD to e.g. DVD.

[bayleafbee]

I'm having a problem finding where this is at.

I'm not 100% sure exactly what the Project Window is, but I can find sequence settings under sequence in the menu bar, but it doesn't have an aspect ration in the list of options

[Ann Bens]

Project window is the window were all your media is.

You need to select a sequence in the project window first in order to get the option to change the parameter.

[ericf50707306]

I have the same problem.  My aspect ratio is already set to square pixels 1.0 and its not removing the black border.

[Ann Bens]

Post screenshot export settings with left tab to output and with an image.

[Langruth]

After moving Adobe Premiere to Windows 11 and larger monitor, I had to go into New Project, reselect 16:9 and 1920x1080 and also check off "Force selected project preset to this project" and the black border disappeared. However, I had to do this for every new Project (until I figure it out).