Black Bar Fill
When you insert image or video material into a movie that has a different aspect ratio, black bars appear at the edges. This happens, for example, whenever you insert videos or pictures taken in portrait mode into a movie in landscape mode.
FIGURE An upright image in a 16:9 video, on the left without, on the right with black bar filling
With the Black Bar Fill plug-in, you can fill these black bars with a background of matching color. For this purpose, a blurred copy of the image material is placed behind the image, enlarged so that the background is completely filled in and the black bars are hidden.
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Item |
Description |
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Foreground | Shadow blur |
To make the actual video stand out better from the background, it is provided with a shadow. How clearly this shadow is visible depends on how much blur you set for the shadow with the slider. |
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Background | Position |
Use the small crosshair in the preview monitor to determine the position of the background image. You can also enter the values numerically or click the arrow next to Position to display an X/Y control for it. |
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Background | Scaling |
Use the slider to adjust the magnification of the image. |
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Background | Blur |
Set a value for the background blur using the slider. Note that simply by zooming in on the image, blurriness is already created. |