Moderator: Ken Berry
aljimenez wrote:Is the video from a phone taken in portrait, or from a camera taken in portrait? Please give details about the type of video and the camera it was taken from: click right mouse button in the video on the timeline and select Properties and post them here. I suspect your project properties do not match the video properties.
Well.. mm.. In this particular project all I wanted to do is to combined two videos together.Ken Berry wrote:What are your project properties?
Apart from the difficulties associated with trying to include video taken on a phone held in vertical mode, the properties of the video in question are not particularly good. 240 x 426 is quite small, as is the bitrate of 445 kbps. If your project properties are bigger -- as I suspect they will be -- this will magnify any tiny defects in the phone video. I would imagine your project properties and/or the output format for the rendered project, will likely be at the very least 1280 x 720, and more likely 1920 x 1080 i.e. considerably larger than the original. Even a minor defect which can't be noticed in the original would appear significantly magnified in the final video and could account for those large black blocks.
Does the camera allow you to set different frame sizes and bitrates?
aljimenez wrote:Not sure if VS will do what you want. I would start over. Set VS to change project properties the same as the first video inserted, and see if that works. You can also go the Share tab, and select the rendered video to the first video inserted to see if you can create a video file that works.
Normally, you would do this by going to Preferences > General and ticking the box beside "Show message when inserting first video clip". Then in a new project, when you insert the first clip you should get a message asking if you want the Project Properties to match those of the clip. Then later, when you finish editing you can simply go to Share > Same As Project Properties. You could try that, but I suspect it might not work in your case since as I have already said, your frame size (240 x 426) is not a normal size.How can I do this? ("set VS to change project properties the same as the first video inserted")
Can you please explain exactly what you mean by "fixed it".By the way, I fixed it by uploading the video to some online-editor website and re-downloaded it (without any changes).
Can you please explain exactly what you mean by "fixed it".[/quote]By the way, I fixed it by uploading the video to some online-editor website and re-downloaded it (without any changes).
But do you mean that that after using that on-line editor, you reinserted it in Video Studio, edited it further and produced a new video without the black spots?If in the original video I got some black pixels while playing it on VS then after I "fixed" (uploaded then re-download it) the black pixels disappeared
When I import them to VS timeline and play it as a Project. They also appear in the final project.Ken Berry wrote:But do you mean that that after using that on-line editor, you reinserted it in Video Studio, edited it further and produced a new video without the black spots?If in the original video I got some black pixels while playing it on VS then after I "fixed" (uploaded then re-download it) the black pixels disappeared
Perhaps we should be taking a more step-by-step approach...
When do the black pixels first occur: when you just insert them in Video Studio, or after you have edited the video and produced a new video?
See my answer above. The BP (Black Pixels) doesn't appear at all. not while playing the video on the time line or in the final project.When the pixels disappear after uploading to the on-line editing site, do they disappear from the final video or from the original video? Or after uploading/downloading them, then do they no longer appear in the final video after you have edited the project and produced the new video?
Can you please right click on the video that you get after you have uploaded/downloaded it and copy ALL its Properties here please, or take another screen grab of the Properties box and upload it here...
canuck wrote:Could you upload a problem clip to a site such as dropbox from where we could download it for testing?