Comments on: When You get the Dreaded Black Bars in Your Videos http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/ Sun, 19 May 2013 02:07:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: dany http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2079 dany Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:57:37 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2079 Watching this again at home on my 13″. You raelly have to have a big screen to see all this aspect ratio but I love the nonlinear thinking.

]]> By: Michelle Schoen http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2038 Michelle Schoen Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:43:46 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2038 Art,

Since YouTube now uses a widescreen player you should have chosen one of the widescreen recording selections. To stick close to the size you originally wanted you could have chosen 1280×720 (16:9) and then locked the recording area using the little lock next to the dimensions. Camtasia 7.1 makes this easier as they give you suggested recording dimensions right inside the recorder.

]]> By: art http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2036 art Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:44:59 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2036 Thanks:)
I am running into same issue with screen cast..I recorded and produced at 1280×968. which can be seen at http://youtu.be/AVRZrh6zMf8
Any settings I should be aware of?

]]> By: Michelle Schoen http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2033 Michelle Schoen Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:37:13 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2033 Art,

The reason you still go them is because your PowerPoint slides are set up as a 4:3 ratio in PowerPoint. I’m not sure which version of PowerPoint you are using but in PowerPoint 2010 go to the Design tab and choose Page Setup. In the dropdown that says “Slides Sized for” choose 16:9. It is possible since you didn’t start out with that size that the text and images may not look the same with the new ratio and you may need to go through the slides and move some things around but it will take care of the black bars. Good luck.

]]> By: art http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2030 art Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:53:15 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2030 I recorded and produced a .ppt presentation and still came up with the wide bars. I imported the .ppt slides as images and imported the audio track and both were set to 1280×720. when I uploaded to youtube, still had bars..anything I missed?.it looks good when I do full screen..maybe add an image as thumbnail before video starts? Here it is http://youtu.be/RUkEkCSL6nA

]]> By: Carlana Charles http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2007 Carlana Charles Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:51:22 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2007 Great post. Figured this out on my own the hard way some months ago but I certainly won’t forget now.

]]> By: Michelle Schoen http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2006 Michelle Schoen Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:23:08 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2006 You too Kim- hope to see you on the Q and As again soon. BTW- if you have any videos you have done that you would like to share we are starting a student showcase over at LearnCamtasia.com so let me know about them.

]]> By: Michelle Schoen http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2005 Michelle Schoen Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:21:48 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2005 Rick,

I hadn’t heard of the term “Pillarboxing” before. I’ll start using it since it sounds more intelligent when used with “Letterboxing”. and I always want to sound smart.

]]> By: Kim http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2004 Kim Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:45:30 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2004 Thanks for the great information. As always very useful. Appreciate it. Hope you are having a great start to your new year!

]]> By: Rick http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-2003 Rick Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:35:56 +0000 http://www.vademogirl.com/when-you-get-the-dreaded-black-bars-in-my-videos/#comment-2003 Nice post!

However, I do have a slight criticism to offer. I believe the technical term where you say “curtains” is actually called “Pillarboxing”.

But regardless of what you call it, it’s nice that you explained the phenomenon to folks and they will find it useful and they learned.

So it’s a good blog post! ;)

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