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Thank you both for the replies.
Carl and Steve, I made a post here regarding my crop video problems, which I think I found a solution too, if you can't recommend another better way.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/39360.page
Carl, as I explained in that post, PD7 had a extremely simplistic, yet powerful way to crop 16:9 video to 4:3.
You would right click on aspect ratio and the option is given to "crop to 4:3" click-render-complete. PD11, while more advanced in it's features, makes it more difficult to crop a video, or so it seems anyway.
PD 11 can do what You want I think.
Attached is a picture outlining the steps.
Hi, thanks for your help. I tried that just now, but unfortunately it doesn't stretch it enough. The black side bars are still visible. I guess I will just have to do it manually in the modify section.
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Thank you both for the replies.
Carl and Steve, I made a post here regarding my crop video problems, which I think I found a solution too, if you can't recommend another better way.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/39360.page
Carl, as I explained in that post, PD7 had a extremely simplistic, yet powerful way to crop 16:9 video to 4:3.
You would right click on aspect ratio and the option is given to "crop to 4:3" click-render-complete. PD11, while more advanced in it's features, makes it more difficult to crop a video, or so it seems anyway.
Steve, yeah that's going to be a tough find I think.
I have an old laptop that came with a preview version of PD7 on it. I always fear the inevitable will happen, and that old laptop doesn't power on anymore.
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I see, yes, the option of "Use Crop to convert to 16:9 aspect ratio" is missing in the "Neither 4:3 or 16:9" dialog, might that be what you are referring to?
Only option I know of is manually Crop/Zoom/Stretch to remove black side bars of a 4:3 video that was encoded into a 16:9 frame so you now have the encoded black bars and you no longer have the original 4:3 video.
Jeff
Yes, in PD7 "Use Crop to convert to 4:3 aspect ratio" was the feature. Is there anyone to add old features from PD7 into my PD11? I still have a preview version of PD7.
I just watched a Youtube tutorial I had never seen before, and did as the guy said. Put the video in the timeline, (message came up about it being 16:9 when I had 4:3 checked) I clicked no for switching it back to 16:9.
Then went to modify-properties and uncheck maintain aspect ratio and then stretched the pic to get the black bars out of there. Seemed to work ok I guess.
Would be great to be able to import that old PD7 feature though.
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Is your source video 4:3? I assume that maybe you just want to maintain the 4:3 video frame size. The black side bars occur because you have a 4:3 source video in a 16:9 project. If so, set the aspect ratio in PD11 prior to loading video, go to the Edit menu > Aspect Ratio > 4:3 (checked) and then add you 4:3 video to the timeline.
Jeff
Hi, thanks for your reply.
The actual video (way prior to HD days) was meant to be viewed in standard 4:3...but it is technically now a 16:9 display due to having these black bars encoded on them. So technically it is 16:9.
If I was to do as you described, it would squish the entire picture, bars included into a 4:3 picture. I need a way to crop them off.
PD 7 had the great feature of right clicking on aspect ration and it said "video is 16:9 - crop to 4:3" click, render and done.
Here I would have to do that manually, which I don't mind doing, but like I described in my first post, cant seem to do. I try to toggle the lines where you select the area to crop, but if I slide left or right it expands up and down as well.
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If I can't figure out how to crop these videos in PD 11, I want to know where I can purchase PowerDirector 7?
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Hi there. I am using PD 11.
I would like to know how to crop the black side bars off a 16:9 video, so that it can display it's natural 4:3 display video.
I do not want to use the mask feature or anything that will simply hide the bars. I want to permanently remove them, so that the 4:3 video is all I see.
I had Power Director 7 and it had a wonderful crop feature, by right clicking on aspect ratio it would say "crop to 4:3" and within minutes my video was the way I would like it. Now....in Power Director 11, not only is that feature not there, but it is very hard for me to figure out how to crop the video....
I think the biggest problem I am having is when I got to power tools-crop video.....I try to drag the outline of what I would like to crop, but if I drag the sides, the top moves too....Is there a way to customize that feature? So that I can drag the outline without it automatically adjusting itself? I guess it would be like checking or unchecking maintain aspect ratio.
Please help me figure this out. I have a lot of videos I wish to crop. Again, I don't want to mask, or zoom, or hide the bars, I want to chop them off like Power Director 7 would let me.
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