Black Bars--

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Black Bars--

Postby gogo76 » Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:39 pm

I`d like to know how people make the ``black bars`` around their cropped or panned clips, like found in the video Euphoria or Phenomenon in some times.

Example: [img][IMG]http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/5160/euphoria2050000000hm9.th.jpg[/img][/img]

Ty for any help in advance
Ps: I dont mind in which program you tell me to do it in, but, most preferably, Sony Vegas or After Effects.
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby Shine_Star » Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:59 pm

There is several ways to make that on sony Vegas, you can create using a black solid and then in Pan/Crop create a bar. Or just go to the image, right click, Event Pan/Crop like this = D
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby gogo76 » Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:19 pm

Im looking for a way that would automaticly follow any clips.. if you know what i mean O_ o
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby Niotex » Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:25 pm

If you're referring to strictly top and bottom that would be called "letter boxing".
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby gogo76 » Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:56 pm

Im reffering to the left an the right... actually
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby Shine_Star » Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:10 pm

Yeah I know what you mean, you have to create the bars....

If you want that all the video have that black bar...is the first option that I told you just create a solid black color on top of all the layers and into that solid just create a bar for that go to Event Pan/Crop...

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Re: Black Bars--

Postby Niotex » Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:32 pm

Masking a precomp would work too.
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby Kanti13 » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:49 am

There's actually a really easy way of doing this.

Right click and 'insert empty event'

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Stretch out the empty even to the full length of your song or however long you want the bars to be there for (I already put the bars in that pic)

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Put the cookie cutter effect into the empty event and set it to square with a black border (for black lines)
(put up the Repeat Y to make it just lines) and use the size and position to set it just how you want it.

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Use keyframes to change the position to where ever you want it to be throughout your video. Because it's one single media even you can make it flow as smoothly or sharply as you want. You can also set it to nothing when you don't want it ....ect. using the keyframes.

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I think this is what you are trying to do. Pretty simple right :wink:
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby JaddziaDax » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:47 am

actually the easiest way to create a black bar in vegas is to use the fecking cookie cutter :/
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby uberfrito » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:41 am

^^agreed. masking takes precision though so it's more flexible. but cookie cutter works out for convenience.
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby JaddziaDax » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:28 pm

and if you want it on all your clips then just add it to the track
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby 0190eric » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:21 am

thanks for post here i try this black bars btw in adobe pro it is have that??
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby mirkosp » Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:08 pm

0190eric wrote:thanks for post here i try this black bars btw in adobe pro it is have that??

You could do that by doing File > New > Color Matte and then applying a four point garbage matte to it.
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Re: Black Bars--

Postby xPiikanyaa » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:03 am

You can do it in Vegas by selecting the Cookie Cutter tool, changing the border colour to black, setting the shape as square and then changing either the 'Repeat (Y)' or 'Repeat (X)' to 1 depending on whether you want it horizontal or vertical. It's really easy once you know how to do it.
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