HomeSometimes when you download a 4:3 video and then try to reproduce it on your tablet PC, iPhone or Android phone, there appear distracting black bars around the video. It means that the aspect ratio of the video differs from the one of your device, which prefers video in 16:9 widescreen mode. Some people bow to the inevitable trying to pay no attention to black bars, but others are getting mad. Well, in case you belong to the second group, read this article to learn how to remove black bars and prepare your video file for watching on your widescreen device and HDTV.
What you need: Pavtube Video Converter | Video Converter for Mac
The app is designed as a video and audio encoder for users to convert among myriad file types (AVI, WMV, FLV, MTS, MOV, MPG, M2TS, DV, TiVo, etc) so as to turn videos into compatible formats for editing and playing, compress big files into smaller ones for saving storage, extracting MP3 from videos, etc. It can also do a few limited editing such as cropping, special effects and brighten or darken clips. Changing video aspect ratio is one of the auxiliary facilities. The app is available for Windows and Mac.
Change video aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 for your device
Step 1. Load the video to Pavtube Video Converter software.
Step 2. Click on “Format” bar, choose “Common Video>> Common video for Android and Apple Devices(*.mp4)” preset.
Step 3. Click on “Settings” button. In the Profile Settings window, set Video Size to 1280*720, 960*640, 720*406, or other resolution that is in 16:9 aspect ratio.
Step 4. Back to the main interface, click on the big Convert button to start converting source video (FLV, MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, etc) to MP4 in 16:9.
Below shows you a preview picture of how 4:3 video is changed into 16:9 like.
Crop out black bars and from 4:3 video and export 16:9 video
When/If the source 4:3 video contains black bars on top and bottom, it presents squared black columns around the video when playing on 16:9 device.In that case you may want to crop out the bars along the top and bottom of the video so that it take full advantage of the 16:9 display.
Follow the guide below to crop out black bars and from 4:3 video and export 16:9 video
Step 1. Load the video to Pavtube Video Converter software.
Step 2. Click on “Format” bar, choose “Common Video>> Common video for Android and Apple Devices(*.mp4)” preset.
Step 3. Click on “Settings” button. In the Profile Settings window, set Video Size to 1280*720, 960*640, 720*406, or other resolution that is in 16:9 aspect ratio.
Step 4. Press on “Edit” button. In Video Editor window.
Step 5. Drag and drop the green frames on the Original Preview video to circle the image you’d like to keep/crop out unwanted bars on top and bottom. Then click OK.
Step 6. Back to the main interface, click on the big Convert button to start converting source video (FLV, MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, etc) to MP4 in 16:9.
In this way the program will help you to remove black bars easily and make a best fit for your 16:9 display. The Pavtube Video Converter lets you import multiple videos for processing and join them together as one file. This means you can combine 2 videos with different aspect ratios into 1 project without losing the original aspect ratio (by proper cropping operation).
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