[VEGAS 13] How do you get rid of black bars?

[vegas13]

So let's say you have a video and there is a black bar below the video and you just want to cut this black bar while keeping the correct aspect ratio. For some reason I cannot find a way to do this. I took a screenshot of a frame and meaured with paint the pixels of the image minus the black area, and so I thought I would be able to enter that size on Project Properties or when you are rendering the video and it would render the correct area but it sort of stretches it or something. How would one do this??

[davexnet]

This is just basic video editing. It must have crop filter somewhere, all editors do.

[_Al_]

In editors it is trickier because video resolution is tied to projects.
One of those below should work:

1. If having voucoder encoder plugin (really recommended), then there is a crop filter, where you can put a new video height in there, y offset to zero and keep aspect ratio yes. That would encode a video with bottom cut off.

2.load video into project, edit. In crop change your height to desired value and Y Center to exactly half that height. If you cannot edit those values, you have to deselect on the left either snapping or lock aspect ratio. THEN in project properties change your project height to that new height.

3. It might work in reverse way as oppose to #2, did not try, loading your video into a project with new height, but then you have to go into crop to fix it so it fits.

[vegas13]

In editors it is trickier because video resolution is tied to projects.
One of those below should work:

1. If having voucoder encoder plugin (really recommended), then there is a crop filter, where you can put a new video height in there, y offset to zero and keep aspect ratio yes. That would encode a video with bottom cut off.

2.load video into project, edit. In crop change your height to desired value and Y Center to exactly half that height. If you cannot edit those values, you have to deselect on the left either snapping or lock aspect ratio. THEN in project properties change your project height to that new height.

3. It might work in reverse way as oppose to #2, did not try, loading your video into a project with new height, but then you have to go into crop to fix it so it fits.

Im not sure what the plugin does but I doubt its compatible with Vegas 13.

I have tried changing the widht and height but it doesn't work it just screws up the sizing.

Just to show what im talking about, this is the setup:



As you can see, I just need to remove that black bar. The upper video is cropped so I can use the part I want, then below I will use another thing. The thing is, since the original video is taller, it creates that black bar as I introduce the new video on top which is shorted (the one with goku on it).



So basically, as I readjusted the size, the black bar is there and I just need to remove it. This is the video settings:



I thought so I how do I solve this. What I was doing is just measuring the pixels of the video substracting the black bar which according to paint.net is 810x1080. So that is what I selected there and then this happens:



So basically it screws up the video for some reason. The same happens if I select 1 pixel aspect ratio. It comes set to 0,75 by default for some reason. Im not even sure what that does. The point is, it's just not working so im not sure what to do. Im not sure about the crop filter. I tried rendering the video with the 1080x1080 pixels which is the size of the project but it crops it too. This is just annoying.

[_Al_]

1st solution - Voucoder is an external encoder, so if you do what was explained, it just encodes video with bottom cut off.

[_Al_]

And about rest of it, images in preview do not correspond whats in timeline, hard to orient in that, but guessing you are stacking images into a project resolution. Then just use a blank project with desired resolution.
Also I mentioned to change new desired height and Y center to set to half that desired height, not changing both width and height.