Basic widescreen tutorial

[VenomX]

Okay, this is probably the worst way of doing it, as it doesn't actually make the video different dimensions, just covers up some of it.  My PC isn't really the best to do this on, as its default 1024x768, and pretty crap .

Well anyway, you're going to need Vegas and Photoshop for this, or any other good graphics program.  Find out the resolution of your video that you want to make widescreened, then create a new photoshop canvas in that size with these settings (800x600 in my example.)

 (only used a very small border, but it makes the point):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLvRdMVfSiA

You can also use them to put names in, which is useful too.

Hope this helps!

[VaNilla]

Simple way is to just use pan and crop dimension .

[Inwa]

Thanks for the tutorial.

[Souzuk]

Thank you i will use it

[GT-7]

This is good way to do good looking widescreens

[FIGHTER]

thanks

[Matbugss]

Thanks much Ven.

[VenomX]

No problemo, thanks for the request .

[Luky]

Great tutorial, very helpful

[Auzas]

Cant you just use cookie cutter and then box, or how tha hell it was called, and make the border  how big you want? And you dont have to turn on PS.

[GT-7]

Its pan and crop btw, yes its better to make simple widescreen, but with ps you can make whatever like widescreen you want

[Paxton]

Useful tut.

[VaNilla]

You can make whatever widescreen you want with pan and crop too GT, just click on the button that lets you change the aspect of the crop, drag the edges and now the black lines appear, and you can make them as big or small you like, then click off that to have normal pan and crop again.

[Adonai]

THX man, very helpful  

[GT-7]

SS, i didnt mean like that widescreens..  Heres a example what i was meaning:
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