You’ll need to go to Sequence>Sequence settings and change the vertical value from “1080” to “803” for 1080p quality and from “2160” to “1606” for 4K quality. The Third and the best way to do it and the way that professionals in Hollywood do it is by changing the aspect ratio: Go to the effects control pannel and change the values Top and Bottom to 12%.And then go to Effects>Video effects>Transform>Crop.Drag the adjustment layer over the clips you want to add the black bars to.
The second way to do it is by using an adjustment layer. The first one is by simply going to google and downloading the “Cinematic black bar” PNG after you simply drag it and drop it over your video. One of the best ways to make a video look more cinematic is by adding horizontal black bars on it, those bars give more depth to the video and usually are very useful for wide shots.Īnd there are 3 ways to achieve those black bars in premiere pro
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How to Add The Cinematic Horizontal Black Bars in Premiere Pro To change the aspect ratio to 16:9 you’ll need to go to sequence settings as we showed before and change the Horizant value to “3840” and the vertical to “2160” for a 4K UHD quality and for 1080p HD quality change the values to “1920” Horizontal and “1080” vertical. Now that you know how to change the aspect ratio, we need to discuss how to achieve certain aspect ratios by changing the horizontal and vertical values of the video How to change the aspect ratio to 16:9 (1.85:1) To change the Aspect ratio in premiere pro go to File>New>Sequence>settings>Frame size if you want to open a new project, and Sequence>Sequence Settings>Frame size to change the aspect ratio of an already existing project. Some people call it the cinematic horizontal black bars and if you want to learn how to achieve it and make your video look more cinematic keep reading because I’ll talk about it at the end. This aspect ratio is mostly used in movies or in cinematic videos, it’s very similar to the first aspect ratio that we mentioned (16:9) but it is cropped from the top and button which gives it that cinematic look.