Cropping borders on a 16:9 video to 4:3 in Premiere Pro

[techmot]

Hi, does anyone know how I can crop the black left and right borders on a 16:9 video to 4:3 in Adobe Premiere?. I have looked up a few videos tutorials on youtube but couldn't find anything that crops them. Going into project settings and changing the size 1140x1080 results in part of the sides being cropped off where it shouldn't be. I couldn't find anything that allows you to adjust the sides by inputting in 240 for left and 240 for right like you can do with Handbrake and Avidemux.

[poisondeathray]

Hi, does anyone know how I can crop the black left and right borders on a 16:9 video to 4:3 in Adobe Premiere?. I have looked up a few videos tutorials on youtube but couldn't find anything that crops them. Going into project settings and changing the size 1140x1080 results in part of the sides being cropped off where it shouldn't be. I couldn't find anything that allows you to adjust the sides by inputting in 240 for left and 240 for right like you can do with Handbrake and Avidemux.

It should be 1440 x 1080 , not 1140 x 1080

Was your video 4:3 content with pillar bars as 1920 x 1080 with "square pixels" ?

Or was it SD dimensions with "non square pixels ?" - Because PP's default interpretation of aspect ratio for SD content is slightly different and there are other steps to take

[jagabo]

Movies come in many different aspect ratios. Not just 4:3 and 16:9.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motion_picture_film_formats

Are you sure your source is 4:3?

[DB83]

One might disagree but if you start with a 4:3, or similar, video with burnt in side-bars and then crop away those bars you will then

1. Potentially lose quality with the re-encode
2. Your player then re-adds those side-bars when you play the video on a 16:9 full-screen


Thus a waste of time.