3. NEW: Metadata-driven automatic black bar cropping in JRVR, based on the "Video Crop" database field, which can be filled with the Video Analysis tool. MC 31.0.16 and above.
Black bars would only go away if there is room to the side for the image to grow, eg. on an ultrawide screen, where you would have pillarboxing (eg. black bars on the left/right). Otherwise Preserve Aspect Ratio will just add them back like its supposed to.
Its not going to cut off image content, unless you ask it to. If you like getting image cut off, it also allows the "Crop" mode to work properly, because it knows how much is actual image.
Removal of black bars only has any impact if there is actually extra space in another dimension the image can then expand into (eg. more width thats unused).
You can generate space by using an anamorphic projection using the correction factor, or just having an ultrawide resolution to begin with.
All the options are available in the new JRVR settings page. There are just two things you have to do - enable automatic black bar cropping and set the factor of your lense. Leave Aspect Ratio Mode on "Preserve...".
Quote from: jmone on Yesterday at 06:14:16 pm
Is there a way to have MC auto run Black Bar detection when importing?
There is this for auto-import: (Tools -> Import -> Configure Auto Import)
And this for single imports: (Tools -> Import -> Import a single folder)
There is a setting for auto-import as well as manual import, if you use the import dialog.
Note that if you had previously manually overriden any of the settings for the file you are testing, you can either delete the Playback Info field, or manually select the right settings in the context menu again.
The per-file settings are still there and still take precedence over the global settings. As only this way will you be able to fix individual files that may not be quite how you expected them.