How to have text inside the black bars

[doctorhibert]

Hey, so I'm making a cutscene for my game. It's got a few rooms with animated objects that are bigger than the default background (because that's the size I found them in), now this works fine, and it has the added bonus of adding small black bars on the bottom and top, like in a cutscene.
My problem now, is that I also want this cutscene to have text narration, and the best place for it is inside the black bars. I tried making a background the same size as the pictures, but that just removes the black bars, and to be honest the text doesn't look that good on top of an animated image. Keep in mind that I have about 5 of these rooms all with different sizes and frames, so a solution that might work for one room might not for another.

Any help is appreciated, thanks

[Khris]

The solution here is to scale and crop all images/sprites you're using to a proper size and format, based on the resolution of your game.

[doctorhibert]

The solution here is to scale and crop all images/sprites you're using to a proper size and format, based on the resolution of your game.

The problem with that is that even if I change the backgrounds, the animated objects are still going to be larger and in front of the background, and there's probably around 200 frames in total, you mean I have to scale and crop every one of them?

[Khris]

Your post sounded like you're using images at the size you found them, instead of adjusting their size to fit your game.
That, to me, is a horrible notion, which is why I didn't address your specific problem but the elephant in the room.

If resizing means resizing 200+ images, then well, that's what you should do, I guess. You can bulk resize images using IrfanView, if that helps.