HI TO EVERYONE this is a question i thought of if it can be added to the mcebuddy software
would it be possible to colorize a black and white video files with the mcebuddy software if it was added to the software like if you ticked a box on the software to colorize a black and white video file is that possible to do like there is other softwares out there that do colorize a black and white video file but mcebuddy software does not do that yet so would it maybe be possible to maybe add to the mcebuddy software a way to colorize a black and white video file like if you had like a old 1960s movie and it was black and white would it be possible to colorize the black and white video file like to a mp4 file the software does do other stuff but not colorize a black and white video file so if mcebuddy can add that feature to the mcebuddy software cos there are some AI softwares that will colorize a black and white video file but i have never used them so dont know if they work or not.
also the remove black bars feature on the mcebuddy software it does not work for video files like tiktok videos or really small square video files with a lot of black bars like if you filmed a video on your phone and tried to make the video file fullscreen with the mcebuddy software it stays with the black bars in the video file even if i tick the box remove black bars on the mcebuddy software it only does that with like tiktok videos or really small video files filmed on like a phone it does not make the video files full screen but if you have like a 720p video file it will make it full screen and it will cut out all the black bars in the video file
so can mcebuddy please fix the remove black bars feature on the mcebuddy software
and would it be possible to add a feature to the software to colorize black and white video file
Hello Trish,
Thank you for your feature requests and feedback! I can certainly address your questions about MCEBuddy.
Colorizing Black and White Video Files
That is a very interesting idea! We can definitely look into this if more folks would like it.
Remove Black Bars Feature Feedback
Thank you for reporting your issue with the Remove Black Bars feature, especially with video files like TikTok or those shot on a phone in a vertical or small-square format.
The feature is designed to detect and remove traditional black bars typically found on the top and bottom of wide-screen movies (letterboxing) or the sides of older 4:3 content (pillarboxing).
When dealing with videos that are:
- Vertical (portrait) aspect ratio (like most phone videos/TikToks), or
- Small square video with a large amount of empty black space around the actual content
The algorithm might struggle to correctly identify the black bars without cropping into the actual content, especially if the internal content is also surrounded by a small frame or if the black area is not perfectly uniform.
To help the MCEBuddy developers investigate and potentially improve this:
- Check your aspect ratio settings: When MCEBuddy removes black bars, it typically tries to stretch/crop the video to a standard aspect ratio like 16:9. If your phone video is 9:16 (vertical), forcing it to 16:9 will either result in severe cropping or black bars on the sides.
- Provide a sample: The best way to get this fixed is to upload a short sample of one of these problem videos so the developers can test their cropping algorithm against it. They cannot fix what they cannot reproduce.
For now, if MCEBuddy’s automated feature fails on these non-standard videos, you may need to use a dedicated video editor to manually crop the frames before or after processing with MCEBuddy.
I hope this clarifies things!