Remove Black Bars From an Existing Video

[dominicbogdan]

Hello,

My Premiere Pro CC 2019 resolution is set to 1080x1080, the video that I want to edit has a wide resolution and was recorded with black bars on top and the bottom.

I tried to Uniform Scale the video but I get weird footage.

My question is how can I remove those cinematic bars and blur them with parts of the video?

Tried to double layer and blur the layer from the background, didn't work.

I think the proper way to do it is to remove cinematic bars.

I am a newbie to Premiere Pro CC 2019, I would highly appreciate a screenshot on steps I need to take.

Thank you in advance!

[rodneyb56060189]

I wonder what the original source resolution is ? was it 1920x1080 ?

[Kyle Hamrick · Accepted solution]

If those black bars are part of the original video file, there's no way to make them magically disappear - but you can hide them.
You can scale the video until they're out of frame, or if the subject of your video never touches the edge, you could use masks or the Crop effect to trim the top in until that disappears.

[dominicbogdan]

Crop effect got the job done.

Thank you Kyle Hamrick!