crop black borders

nikolo

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Jan 26, 2015 12:17

hello i have a vdieo file (1920x1080) but in my power dvd appears w ith black borders left and right.can i do something wiht power dierctor 13 to crop,disable fix it?

Dafydd B

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Jan 26, 2015 12:47

Quote: hello i have a vdieo file (1920x1080) but in my power dvd appears w ith black borders left and right.can i do something wiht power dierctor 13 to crop,disable fix it?

Hi nikolo,
Please provide more information on the video you're editing, (the MediaInfo/properties) see the guide: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/40225.page part J.
You might have the Aspect Ratio incorrectly set to display 4:3 in Preview. Change the Aspect Ratio to 16:9, (very top of the interface, there is an option button (4:3 or 16:9 is displayed).
Dafydd

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nikolo

Member Location: athens Joined: Oct 28, 2012 06:52 Messages: 127 Offline

Jan 26, 2015 13:02

is the grand budapest hotel movie begin as 16:9 movie but during palying power dvd or after convert with power director appaers with borders

SoNic67

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 27, 2014 14:14 Messages: 1308 Offline

Jan 26, 2015 13:05

Quote: hello i have a vdieo file (1920x1080) but in my power dvd appears w ith black borders left and right.can i do something wiht power dierctor 13 to crop,disable fix it?

The video space might be 1920x1080 but the actual video information might be just a 4:3 format - for example many older shows were filmed in 4:3 format, because that was the TV aspect back then.
Now, on wide screen 16:9 TV's or 16:10 PC monitors, it will have the black bars on sides. Sure, you can zoom in and crop to get rid of the bars, but that will get rid of some original image too.
or you can stretch the image to fill all the space, but then people and objects will look deformed.

Is no way around it.

A good read: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-5pFed7ivSQU/learn/learningcenter/home/aspect_ratio.html

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Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Jan 26, 2015 13:07

Or you might need to change the Clip Properties.

Right click on track video.

Alter Clip Properties

Dafydd

You mentioned PowerDVD, please address issues to the PowerDVD forum.


Filename	SD-2013-02-1340.png	Download
Description	Right Click
Filesize	92 Kbytes
Downloaded:	954 time(s)


Filename	SD-2013-02-1341.png	Download
Description	Set Clip Properties to 16:9
Filesize	125 Kbytes
Downloaded:	952 time(s)

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nikolo

Member Location: athens Joined: Oct 28, 2012 06:52 Messages: 127 Offline

Jan 26, 2015 13:37

thank you both of them

Hannah

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Jun 14, 2016 19:43

Very helpful as I tried so many other things but this worked.

Thanks

Neil.F.1955

Senior Contributor Joined: Mar 07, 2012 09:15 Messages: 1303 Offline

Jun 15, 2016 16:36

Quote:

Quote: hello i have a vdieo file (1920x1080) but in my power dvd appears w ith black borders left and right.can i do something wiht power dierctor 13 to crop,disable fix it?

The video space might be 1920x1080 but the actual video information might be just a 4:3 format - for example many older shows were filmed in 4:3 format, because that was the TV aspect back then.
Now, on wide screen 16:9 TV's or 16:10 PC monitors, it will have the black bars on sides. Sure, you can zoom in and crop to get rid of the bars, but that will get rid of some original image too.
or you can stretch the image to fill all the space, but then people and objects will look deformed.

Is no way around it.

A good read: [url=http://www.crutchfield.com/S-5pFed7ivSQU/learn/learningcenter/home/aspect_ratio.html

]http://www.crutchfield.com/S-5pFed7ivSQU/learn/learningcenter/home/aspect_ratio.html

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Actually, Sonic, there is a way around it! Cyberlink provides it as part of the editing process for anyone who's captured content from old VHS or Beta videocassettes(or even the Video 8, or Hi-8 camera tapes) that were naturally in 4:3 aspect ratio. It's CLPV and I've used it myself quite a bit recently when converting old VHS content for a friend. It does trim a little off the top & bottom of the image, but not so much as you'd really miss, then pulls the image out horizontally to almost reach the left & right sides of the screen. There remains a thin black line down each side of the screen but hardly enough to worry about. Dafydd B's graphic shows how to get to the adjustment, all you do then is to select "Video is 4:3" then select CLPV from the options in the drop-down list. There you have it! On reading further of Nicolo's responses, he says the video starts out at 16:9 but, at a given point, drops to 4:3 aspect ratio. At the point of the change, split the video, then apply the CLPV to the remainder of the video. Hope that's of help.

Cheers!

Neil