Sony Vegas adding Hollywood Style top/bottom borders? possible?

[Xander13]

Hey everyone, new to this forum.

I just finished my first short film and I want to add top/bottom borders to the film. I did it how all youtube tutorials taught and it's not the way I want it to be.

I want to add the borders without affecting the aspect ratio. I want to maintain everything I have in the film. The methods I see is rather I stretch the video (widescreen) or adding borders where it chops of parts of the top and the bottom of the film.

So is there a way to add top/bottom borders without affecting any part of the film at all and maintaining what I currently have? Please help. Thanks in advance

[jagabo]

Can you put a round peg in a square hole? What aspect ratio did you shoot in? What aspect ratio do you want the product to be?

[Xander13]

I'm very new to this and this short is only for youtube so please understand if I dont understand some stuff. This is the current aspect ratio 1920x1080x12 and I want it to be like this for the final product with top/bottom borders without stretching or chopping the top/bottom off. is that possible?

[poisondeathray]

Not possible

The AR for 1920x1080 is 16:9 . When you have letterboxing it changes the AR

A common AR for films, released blu-ray is 2.35:1 , which is 1920x800 , but the top and bottom are filled with black borders to make up the full 1920x1080 (essentially they are cropped if shot on 16:9 - but most cinema releases aren't shot on 16:9 )

Unless you just want to add borders to make it non standard ?

e.g. 2320x1080 , by adding 200 to the top and bottom each ?

[jagabo]

By the way, most 2.35:1 movies aren't shot at 2.35:1, they are cropped from a more square frame. The director is mindful of that while shooting. So if you want to mask your 16:9 videos to 2.35:1 you have to shoot with cropping in mind.

[budwzr]

Use the TrackMotion tool to resize. Lock the AR during resize. Simple.

[netmask56]

I'm very new to this and this short is only for youtube so please understand if I dont understand some stuff. This is the current aspect ratio 1920x1080x12 and I want it to be like this for the final product with top/bottom borders without stretching or chopping the top/bottom off. is that possible?

A bit more information would help

Have a look at this site and try to work out what you want

http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/index.htm#main%20index

or

http://events.hometheaterforum.com/home/wsfaq.html