Powerdirector 11 Crop Big Problem Please Help

SandyPD

Newbie Joined: Jul 06, 2014 09:28 Messages: 6 Offline

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Jul 06, 2014 09:45

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.

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jul 06, 2014 10:07

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

SandyPD

Newbie Joined: Jul 06, 2014 09:28 Messages: 6 Offline

Jul 06, 2014 10:27

Quote: 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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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jul 06, 2014 11:00

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


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SandyPD

Newbie Joined: Jul 06, 2014 09:28 Messages: 6 Offline

Jul 06, 2014 11:19

Quote: 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.