How do I take out the black bars in videos

[RBCC]

How do I take out the black bars in picture 1 and make it look like picture 2 ? John

[jagabo]

It's called cropping and it has removed much more than the black bars, it's removed a large portion of the picture. Every video editor has the ability.

[RBCC]

Could you recommend a decent video editor thats free?? John

[jagabo]

VirtualDub, AviDemux, Handbrake, AviUtl, etc.

[ron spencer]

Don't crop your video...leave it 4:3. Any tv now can crop on its own to 16:9. Once you do it you have altered your video forever...not worth it.

[RBCC]

What would happen if I cropped it and coverted it from mp4 to mkv . then I set its resolution to my TV sets resolutio (1366X768)?

[Cornucopia]

You would be:
1. Losing a good portion of the image
2. Losing quality through resizing
3. Losing quality through recompression
4. Forever keeping the image tied to THAT (fake) AR

With ron spencer's idea, you're only doing #1 and #2.

Scott

[JVRaines]

How about a DarrinBox() filter?

[budwzr]

Don't Zoom it, crop it instead. Those black bars are there because either the project settings are wrong in your NLE, or else somebody else rendered it to the wrong AR.

[Cornucopia]

No, those original bars (in picture #1) are there because the fullscreen's window is 16:9 (or 16:10) aka the size of the monitor's screen. And the show was shot in 4:3. So it SHOULD show bars when properly displaying.

But if the OP doesn't WANT pillarboxing, a Zoom In (using the TV) during playback retains more of the quality than a resized re-encode.

Scott

[budwzr]

No, those original bars (in picture #1) are there because the fullscreen's window is 16:9

I see what you mean.

[RBCC]

So I shouldn't use a editor to crop , zoom in with the Tv until the bars aren't there?

[RBCC]

Also can I extend the picture out to "hide" the bars? Also how do I get rid of the pillarboxing and re-encode?

[jagabo]

So I shouldn't use a editor to crop , zoom in with the Tv until the bars aren't there?

You can do whatever you want but you will lose part of the picture or distort it. And you will lose quality from reencoding. And with most TVs you can do the same thing by zooming in. So why bother.

[RBCC]

So I should keep it like it is. To not lose anything to reencoding??

[johns0]

RBCC-Changed your thread title so other people will help you.