How to add cinematic black bars to your video in 59 seconds at
Adding "widescreen" black bars to your movie is a sure way to create the famous cinematic look. We''ll show you how to do it using VSDC Free Video Editor.
Click on the top square and drag it down. You can see the black bars appearing in the preview window on the right of the screen. You may find more and more videos on Facebook and YouTube with black bars, which is almost becoming a trend. But besides that, what else would make you want to add black bars to the video?
That could be another reason why you should add black bars to video. Adding black bars to your video allows you to repurpose your landscape videos into the vertical format without cropping it, so that you can get as much greater engagement as possible. Even better, the black bars in the video are good places to add text or put a joke.
Go to the Effects tab, expand Video effects, select Lens, scroll down, find and download the Cinema effect, and add it to your video. Drag the Cinema effect track's end to increase its duration. Repeat this step to add the cinematic black bars to multiple clips on the timeline. Step 5.
When we watch movies in the cinema, we sometimes find that there are black bars on the top and bottom of the video. Why are there black bars? Cinematic black bars (also known as letterboxing) appear when a video shot in a wide aspect ratio is resized to fit a standard-width video player.
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