How to remove black bars from a video?

[Raja.Pakistani]

I upload many videos on you tube but i cannot find a decent video editor to remove black bars or to crop the video by removing these black borders at the top and bottom or sides of my videos

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into this

I am running windows 7 ultimate with outdated specification intel core 2 duo processor with 2 gb ram..any powerful video cropper?

 

[Icewolf]

It depends on what video recorder you are using and what Video quality the video recorder is on.

 

[janon]

I upload many videos on you tube but i cannot find a decent video editor to remove black bars or to crop the video by removing these black borders at the top and bottom or sides of my videos

I am running windows 7 ultimate with outdated specification intel core 2 duo processor with 2 gb ram..any powerful video cropper?

You shouldn't do it. The black bars are there for a reason - to maintain the aspect ratio of the original video. If you see black bars, that means that your screen's aspect ratio is different from the video's. (Aspect ratio is the ratio of width to height.)

If you remove the black bars using a cropping tool, then the picture will be stretched vertically to fill your screen. Then all objects will look stretched. People will look taller and thinner, and so will everything else. It won't be a pretty sight. You have to watch the video in the same aspect ratio that it was recorded in, not the aspect ratio of your screen. It's good to have the image cover your whole screen, but it is much more important to view it in the same aspect ratio it was recorded in.

(Widescreen monitors have aspect ratio 16:9, standard definition monitors have 4:3 and so on.)

Display aspect ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you still want to do it, there are some options listed here :

How to Remove Black Bars from a Video

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

You shouldn't do it. The black bars are there for a reason - to maintain the aspect ratio of the original video. If you see black bars, that means that your screen's aspect ratio is different from the video's. (Aspect ratio is the ratio of width to height.)

If you remove the black bars using a cropping tool, then the picture will be stretched vertically to fill your screen. Then all objects will look stretched. People will look taller and thinner, and so will everything else. It won't be a pretty sight. You have to watch the video in the same aspect ratio that it was recorded in, not the aspect ratio of your screen. It's good to have the image cover your whole screen, but it is much more important to view it in the same aspect ratio it was recorded in.

(Widescreen monitors have aspect ratio 16:9, standard definition monitors have 4:3 and so on.)

Display aspect ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you still want to do it, there are some options listed here :

How to Remove Black Bars from a Video

You are right but watching full screen videos on youtube is more pleasant especially when you are watching it on tablet or mobile devices

for example compare these two and its more pleasant to watch second wide screen videos

Thanks for the links i will try these software and will see if they do the jobs

 

[acetophenol]

You can play the video in players like VLC Player in your pc,and in which you can change the aspect ratio check how it will look like without the bars.

 

[waradebom]

I used to use Faasoft Video Cropper to crop almost all kinds videos like YouTube, MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, WMV, MPG, 3GP, etc.

With it, you can crop videos as well as keep or change the aspect ratio and crop videos as well as keep or change the size of the video files.

Happy with it.

 

[happyfamilygood]

I recommend iDealshare VideoGo which can crop video to remove the black board or bars of a video file.

It can easily crop all kinds of video files whatever it is in AVI, MP4, MKV, VOB, WMV, MOV, FLV, 3GP, SWF, OGV, WebM, RMVB, Apple ProRes, MXF, AVCHD, MTS, MOD, TOD, DV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX, Xvid and etc. It even helps to download and crop YouTube videos.