Adding Black Bars to MP4 Video

[DonSeenu]

I want to add black bars to a MP4 video file. Someone can help me...which tool i use for this...

[manono]

There's a switch - someone that wants to add black bars. You might mention what it's for. For example, UncropMKV will add them back to make downloaded MKVs Blu-Ray compliant again.

And you realize adding the bars means reencoding the whole thing? So, The AviSynth AddBorders command will add back black on any and all sides, however much black you might want. But you'll need to know some AviSynth to be able to use it. There are some programs (MeGUI, for example) that use AviSynth scripts which they allow you to edit and modify.

[bulgom]

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Very simple (since "wisiwig") with "AviDemux" (freeware) — though almost everybody usually asks how to remove, them black stripes... but well...

The video has to be recoded for sure. So, choose a codec (may be / probably): Video output: "Mpeg4 AVC (x264)".

If original .aac audio, "Audio output" can be set to "Copy" (no recode). Otherwise, you may need audio recoding — to .aac (with an AVC H.264 video stream).

To add borders:

under Video output, click "Filters" button. And under "Available filters", double click "Add borders"; then set their heights (equal or not): Top: XX pixels, Bottom: XX or YY * px. (all even numbers!).

* Check original video height in pixels and, when adding borders, try to end up with a dividable by 8 total height (or total width, if you want vertical bars), or better: 16 (or, if too difficult, depending on personal requirements, by 4; by 2 works also... at least with "x264" codec / beware of any odd number, either refused or often problematic).

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[Budman1]

An alternative is FFMpeg, since you must re=encode anyway, and use the pad filter setting the size to a common one that would take care of the divisible by 4,8,16 mentioned earlier:



or use the alternative bars as:

[DonSeenu]

An alternative is FFMpeg, since you must re=encode anyway, and use the pad filter setting the size to a common one that would take care of the divisible by 4,8,16 mentioned earlier:


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or use the alternative bars as:

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Which Tool are you use in this screenshots ?

[DonSeenu]

Any idea to rotate a video 90 degree right ?

[Budman1]

The program is something I wrote that does most of what people ask for instructions on. I use it to create the script without taxing my memory and verify it works. Then I post the images for people who are not familiar with FFMpeg or AVIsynth so they can match the script parts to the labeled image. It was designed to stop with the scripts or avisynths saved as files for people to check if they need to learn or change if they already know them.

Rotating for 90, 180,270 is easily done with the transpose/hflip/vflip:

-vf transpose=1 (rotate 90)
-vf transpose=2 (rotate 270)
-vf vflip,hflip (rotate 180)



Or if you want by degrees, the later ffmpegs have "rotate" added as a -vf filter. Plus degrees for clockwise and - degrees (-vf "rotate=-10*PI/180") for counterclockwise. Be sure to use CAPITAL letters for the PI/180

[Budman1]

You can also use avisynth and get creative:

v1 = DirectShowSource("C:\Users\Bud\Desktop\untitled.rm").converttoyv12.lanczosresize(160,160).Rotate(-45) 
v2 = v1.TurnLeft()
v3 = v1.TurnRight()
v4 = v3.TurnRight()
v5 = v3.TurnLeft()
v6 = v3.turnRight()
StackVertical(StackHorizontal(v2,v1,v3),  StackHorizontal(v5,v4,v6))
Rotate(45)

[shans]

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Which Tool are you use in this screenshots ?

@ Budman1 - I have just started learning FFMpeg commands. The program what you have used as viewed in the screenshot might be useful to me for further learning. Would you like to share it with me. Thanks

[DonSeenu]

Yes, (SOLVE) AviDemux best working...