Hi
I made a short video on my Android phone, downloaded to laptop and converted to .avi using video converter. When I rotate it by 90 degrees in video editor I get the pillar box effect. Is there any way of removing the black vertical sidebars using AVS s/w?

Thanks

To: Monsclara

Hello,

You can use crop scale function of AVS Video Editor to get rid of the black bars.

Best regards

To: Esther


Yes, I have tried crop scale moving the slider right up to 100, but this had no impact on the pillar boxes.
I've just tried this again starting from initial video in MP4. I can rotate the video and click OK. The video in the project window does rotate (with pillar boxes) but the video in the timeline stays in the initial state - horizontal. So now not sure what is happening.


Please help.

To: Monsclara

Hello,

It is normal that the video on the timeline stays horizontal. You should check the applied effect on the Preview.
Could you please attach a screenshot of the Crop Scale window.

Best regards

I'm having the same issue, when I import a video that was recorded rotated at 16:9 ratio and use transform rotate -90 the aspect ratio remains at 16:9 and creates huge pillars. I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of them. I've tried applying transform on original video and then doing crop scale and it doesn't seem to do anything to the video. I've tried performing crop scale on outputted video that has the pillars and it doesn't do anything. Can you provide step by step instructions on how to rotate a video without pillars? You'd think if you rotate a video that was at 16:9 it would also change the ratio to 9:16

This is how I had to do it, ffmpeg -i inputvideo.avi -vf "transpose=2" -sameq outputvideo.avi

To: barkster

Dear Barclay,

In order to resolve the issue please try using Zoom video effect.