{"id":84,"date":"2006-10-08T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-01-11T07:26:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T15:26:34","slug":"cropping-black-bars-with-quicktime-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Cropping Black Bars with QuickTime Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/graphics\/icons\/quicktime.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" alt=\"QuickTime\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nSome video compression applications allow you to crop black bars which usually result from the anamorphic transformation.  One is ffmpegX.  You can do so with DiVA and Open Shiiva.  In this video tutorial, we use QuickTime Pro to remove black bars.  Having black bars that resulted from the anamorphic transformation leads to inefficient use of bits.  Therefore, removing them reduces the file size of video.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We use Adobe Fireworks to create a simple piece of reference matte.  You can use any graphic application that comes with basic functions.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/quicktime_pro_cropping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/screenshots\/quicktime_pro_cropping.jpg\" height=\"165\" width=\"220\" alt=\"black bars\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<li> VTC version: 1.0<\/li>\n<li> QuickTime version: 7.1.3<\/li>\n<li> Video length: 5 minutes 50 seconds<\/li>\n<li> Video format: QuickTime<\/li>\n<li> Video compression: H.264<\/li>\n<li> Video resolution: 720 x 540 pixels<\/li>\n<li> Audio commentary: Not available<\/li>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\"><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"machouse\/video_tutorials_no_visitors.gif\" alt=\"Mac video tutorials\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/vtc\/quicktime_cropping.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"machouse\/video_tutorials_members.gif\" alt=\"Mac video tutorials\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/terms_guests.php\">Terms of Use for Guests<\/a> before watching any of the video tutorials.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nQuickTime is a product of Apple Computer, Inc.<br \/>\nAdobe Fireworks is a product of Adobe Systems Incorporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some video compression applications allow you to crop black bars which usually result from the anamorphic transformation. One is ffmpegX. You can do so with DiVA and Open Shiiva. In this video tutorial, we use QuickTime Pro to remove black &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=84\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}