I downloaded a video from YouTube with Openshot, then I cut little portions of it with the same program. The aspect ratio of the video originally a 16:9) was changed and 4 big black bars were added (2 on the top, 2 at the bottom). I can see the video well, it's not distorted, nor anything like that, but there are these huge black bars. I looked a lot around for solutions, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to remove them. The only solution which I seem to find (in different places) is the one proposed in this video however, it just moves the video around (I tried in different ways), but Openshot doesn't seem to remove the black bars. Any suggestion?
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If you're talking about the preview, then the black bars will only show up there. Black bars are ONLY added when viewing a video at the wrong resolution, to fill space. You will need to look at your original aspect ratio, and export it at that ratio ONLY.
EDIT: It looks like you need to crop the video: Right click on the clip in the bottom bar, and select "properties." Select the "Layout" tab and edit the Height and Width values. Then, move the video around with x and y. Do not touch Alpha. Press the green play button to preview your clip. You want to increase the zoom, and move the video around until the black bars no longer appear...HOWEVER, on the small preview, there will be bars on the top and bottom that will not appear in post. Hope this helped.
4Select a profile for the project that exactly matches your source video resolution. If none of the available ones matches your video, you can add a custom one:
In my case, I used the template on the page I linked to (1080p), and changed the resolution to 1920x1200, and the aspect to 16:10. That worked perfectly.
