Help with Custom Cinematic bars

[Texxas_Boy]

Tired of the plain ol' Black Bars, i decided to open up photoshot and make some custom cinematic bars with graphics and text. I made the bar how i liked and saved them as a jpeg. In Premier I select my footage, which takes up the whole preview screen, without the black bars. The I import my custom bars which overlay the footage. My footage is in 1080p at 24fps. Now when i export the file and play it in WMP or VLC i have two cinematic bars stacked ontop of eachother vertically. They also dont connect leaving a very slim, not even a millimeter, line between the bars and you can see through it to the video. Anybody know what im doing wrong?

[poisondeathray]

Tired of the plain ol' Black Bars, i decided to open up photoshot and make some custom cinematic bars with graphics and text. I made the bar how i liked and saved them as a jpeg. In Premier I select my footage, which takes up the whole preview screen, without the black bars. The I import my custom bars which overlay the footage. My footage is in 1080p at 24fps. Now when i export the file and play it in WMP or VLC i have two cinematic bars stacked ontop of eachother vertically. They also dont connect leaving a very slim, not even a millimeter, line between the bars and you can see through it to the video. Anybody know what im doing wrong?

It's not clear (at least to me) what you're trying to do?

Are you letterboxing for wider AR ?

Can you post a screenshot to describe what you want to do , or what is wrong more clearly ?

[Texxas_Boy]

I was trying to make my own set of Cinematic Bars. You know the two black bars at the top and bottom of a movie. But with some style so i made some in photoshop and imported them overlaying the movie. The problem is when i exported it...it took those Cinematic bars i made and Put them inside another set of Cinematic bars.

[poisondeathray]

Does it look ok in the preview for the program monitor ? (before exporting) ?

What were your export settings ?

[Texxas_Boy]

Looks fine. But it take my fancy bars and movie, squishes them down and puts them inside the standard cinematic bars.

[poisondeathray]

Do you have a 16:10 monitor? If so, then your monitor is putting the black bars on

Either that, or your export settings were not correct

[Texxas_Boy]

yeah i have a full screen instead of a wide screen..but it looks fine untill i put it in Windows Media Player. Then it incloses my bars and video in more bars.

[mazinz]

yeah i have a full screen instead of a wide screen..but it looks fine untill i put it in Windows Media Player. Then it incloses my bars and video in more bars.

almost sounds like you are taking 4:3 material without cropping it and telling the program to encode it as 16x9

[poisondeathray]

Anytime your aspect ratio doesn't match, your monitor will put on black bars

If your footage was 1920x1080 (no borders) it's 16:9

If you added custom letterboxing e.g. 1920x800, but 140px to top and bottom each, then the AR of the content is 2.35:1

Eitherway, when you view that on any 16:10, 16:9 or 4:3 monitor, there will be black bars

You would either have to reformat the image (either crop , resize , or distort it) to conform to your display AR