Iphone Videos Have Black Bars

[Harleyhead]

Sorry, I can't find this anywhere.

I recorded a couple of short videos on my iPhone in portrait and when I try to make a video production (in Videowave) and turn them into landscape, there are 2 big black bands on each side of the videos.

Is there any way to crop or edit the black out or expand the video so that the video fills the whole screen?

I've tried them both as MOV and AVI and the result is the same.

Thanks,

Darry

[sknis]

Sorry, I can't find this anywhere.

I recorded a couple of short videos on my iPhone in portrait and when I try to make a video production (in Videowave) and turn them into landscape, there are 2 big black bands on each side of the videos.

Is there any way to crop or edit the black out or expand the video so that the video fills the whole screen?

I've tried them both as MOV and AVI and the result is the same.

Thanks,

Darry

 

If you do, all those good looking women will look very fat !

 

There is no way of filling the screen and still maintain the image purity. What you can do is to change the color of the black bars to something more appealing.

[Jim_Hardin]

Ratios are LAW!

 

If you don't want the bars, don't tilt the camera...

[Harleyhead]

Thanks sknis. I was afraid of that.

And Jim, in actual fact, you do tilt the camera - not tilting the camera is what caused the problem in the first place!

Thanks for the quick replys.

Cheers,

Darry

[Jim_Hardin]

Here are 2 iPod pics. Both list as 960 X 720 which is 4:3 ratio... However by turining the iPod we end up with:

 

4:3

 

3:4!

 

In no case can it ever take 16:9 picture so something has to give if added into a 16:9 Production

 

Yet the Movies is records are at 1280 X 720, which is 16:9...

[Harleyhead]

Hey Jim.

It's not an iPod I used but an iPhone. That might make a difference.

At any rate, I know to turn the phone sideways now which seems to avoid the problem or at least make the bars a lot smaller.

Cheers,

Darry

[bimicher]

Hey Jim.

It's not an iPod I used but an iPhone. That might make a difference.

At any rate, I know to turn the phone sideways now which seems to avoid the problem or at least make the bars a lot smaller.

Cheers,

Darry

 

You will always get "black bars" if you hold a camera (and that includes iPhones) in a portrait orientation and then bring that image into the "landscape" orientation of a video editor.

[Jim_Hardin]

They cannot be 'avoided' as long as your camera does not match the aspect ratio of your production...

 

I guess you have never noticed that not one single commercial movie plays on a widescreen TV properly, or even a movie theater screen. Black bars everytime

 

Most are going with a 1.85:1 ratio that nobody builds a screen at

 

FYI, the iPhone 4S brags about "8 megapixels" which means nothing... Dig down and you find 3264 X 2448 which translates into a, way past its' prime, 4:3 ratio...

 

So ALL of your stills will be 4:3 or 3:4, depending on tilt, and you can't change that.

 

It is madding but there is nothing that can be done

[Harleyhead]

Thanks guys.

I've resigned myself to the black bars.

Cheers,

Darry