Get Rid of Black Bars in Windows Movie Maker
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Hello,
I am happy to assist you on Movie Maker and how to remove the black bars (boundaries) on your project. Black bars are created because certain aspect ratio does not fit the ratio of your monitor or television. To troubleshoot the issue, please try changing the aspect ratio of your video by checking the link below:
Change the aspect ratio and video format in Windows Movie Maker
Let us know the results afterwards.
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Please answer some questions about your movie:
- Are you using any video clips? If so, what is the aspect ratio of the source video. Most typically camcorders record in one of two formats (horizontal 4:3 or 16:9). If you are using 4:3 video, you should set your project to 4:3. And if you are using 16:9 video, you should set your project to 16:9. The two values should match to avoid black bars.
- Are you using any photos in your project? If so, what is their aspect ratio. If they don't match the aspect ratio of your project, you can get black bars. For example, if you are using a standard digital camera taking horizontal photos in a 4:3 aspect ratio, but using a 16:9 project, you'll see black bars on the side. Set the project to match the aspect ratio of your photos, or use Photo Gallery to crop your photos to match the project settings. There is a 16x9 setting, for example.
- Are you using any vertical clips (say vertical video from a phone, or vertical photos)? These too will not fit into a horizontal project and will show black on the side. If you filmed your video vertically, you can't do much except to re-record it turning your phone horizontally. For vertical photos, you can either retake them turning your camera horizontally or you can crop them to the aspect ratio of your project. Note, you'll tend to lose a lot of your picture this way, so it may not be your best choice.
Finally, you can use the pan & zoom animations to try and hide the fact that you have mismatched aspect ratios. Or you can just live with it as the result of not matching source to output ratios.
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I have the same problem, but I do not understand what you are telling Helpfuluser. I have both 35mm digital files and 16x9 HD files that I am trying to put together in a video. The project is set to 16x9 in Movie Maker. Windows DVD Maker it is also set to 16x9. When I play back the file on the computer on my HD or 16x9 monitor the camera digital files and the video files fill my screen. However when the file is burned the competed movie looks like it was made for a 4x3 TV. If there was a problem with aspect why would it play ok on the computer but not on a burned disk on my TV? How can I get both files to fill the screen?
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Your problem might be different...
There's a bug in Windows DVD Maker that results in widescreen videos made with Movie Maker 2012 not playing as widescreen on a standard video DVD.
The issue is that the ifo files on the disc tell the DVD player to play the video as standard 4:3 instead of widescreen 16:9.
To work around the bug you can roll back to Movie Maker 2011 or edit the ifo files using the open source ifoedit utility.
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My laptop has Movie Maker Version 2011 build 15.4.3555.0308. I just created a movie with both camera and movie files. The only thing I did not do was to put music to the camera slide. Anyway I just put the DVD I made and it does play the files on the TV just like I saw it on the computer. So it is the version 2012 that is the problem.
Now I have a problem as to where to download the version 2011. I cannot seem to find it, where can I download 2011?
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Here's the Microsoft download site for the 2011 version...
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I know I'm gravedigging this thread, but I'm in the #3 situation you mentioned. Is there seriously no way for Movie Maker to make a video that's twice as tall as it is wide?! I can't re-record what I've got, this is pretty much a once in a lifetime thing that I recorded. Do you know of any other programs that can do it?
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Hi GrinningPariah,
Thanks for posting here. I understand the convenience of having that option but we do not have that in Movie Maker. As for the software that can possibly do that, I apologize but we cannot advise third-party applications here. You can try searching using your favorite search engine.
Regards,
Richard
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Movie Maker is designed to output the most common movie formats of 4:3 and 16:9 for display on a monitor, TV or YouTube. These formats are horizontal formats. If the issue is your video came from a device and was recorded in a vertical format, but it imports horizontally, you can rotate it in Movie Maker, but you will get the black bars, as noted previously.
There are other programs that will rotate video without adding black bars in the process. One that I've used if Freemake Video Converter. It's a freeware program, so be sure to use the 'Custom' option so you can control what else it tries to install. But that will rotate your video into a vertical portrait orientation without adding bars.
As for editing, that's a different matter. You can do some minor edits in Freemake, and I suppose you could edit in Movie Maker (with everything on its side) and then use Freemake to rotate it at the end, but that won't work too well for Titles or certain transitions.
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Hi
Thank you but like to check with you something after converting. The thumbnail is correct but when I played the video there are still two black bar at the side. May I know if this is right? or can the two black bar be removed. Thank you in advance.
I have downloaded the full version so should I re-install it. It would be great if you can shown the step to step of doing it.
Thank you in advance
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Get Rid of Black Bars in Windows Movie Maker
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