On Facebook or TikTok, when you play a vertical video (say, 1080x1920), it zooms it to fill the screen (no black bars, keeping the aspect ratio). So parts of the video is outside the screen and part below the camera hole in the screen. In short, edges are not really visible.
But on X or YouTube, the video is zoomed to fit inside the screen, leaving black bars on top and bottom. Every pixel is visible.
Obviously, I don’t want to make two videos, one with black borders around it, one perfectly fit.
Is there a way to keep the video resolution, but zoom everything out a little, so that there are black borders around the video and the content is a bit smaller inside? Like adding a safe area?
To be more precise, I know how to do that with the “Size, Position & Rotate” filter, but that would mean redoing all of my video. My question is more about having that in “one click” somewhere, so that I can focus on my video and export it twice, once for FB/TT and once fot YT/X.
I don’t use X, but Youtube always fills in the screen on phone when playing a vertical video. Maybe someone exported it horizontally by mistake and the black bars were embedded into the video?
I’m not sure how to do what you’re trying to do, but I think it’s best that you only export once at original ratio (aka without black bars), so for vertical just do 1080x1920 and let each video platform do whatever they want with it.
My logo is on the top left corner of the video. On Youtube and X it shows up fine, on TikTok and Facebook it’s missing a bit on the top left.
I agree that the different treatment by the platforms is a pain, but the thing is, if it looks like crap, it may well be the fault of the platform, but the user sees crap nevertheless.
Ok, I think I understand now. So you’re saying the 9x16 video is actually zoomed in even more depending on individual phone. I don’t think there’s anything you can do in this situation, no matter how thin you export someone will see something wrong. There are phones ranging from really tall (23:9, a samsung fold kept folded) to 2:3 tablets that almost look square.
Furthermore, on instagram if you watch the reel in the reel tab it will show 16x9 because there’s buttons at the bottom and bar at top, but if you watche the same reel in the profile page, the buttons are not there so it will be zoomed in + cropped to whatever the phone’s screen is.
Maybe move your logo a bit more inside?
If you really want a quick way to export different format with forced black bars, you can change the aspect ratio directly in the export tab (advanced mode) to something like 9x21 (NOTE: this is not recommended in any other situation but this!!). So you export once with original 9x16, then another with 9x21.
Thanks. You are correct that there are many different aspect ratios out there. From looking around me and in the subway, most people have an iphone-like (in terms of aspect ratio) phone. As you pointed out, it cannot be perfect on every platform, but if I can have something decent on 90% of the cases, I’ll be more than happy.
Unfortunately, TikTok and Instagram limit aspect ratios to 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1, but I’ll try it nevertheless to see what it looks like.
I would say that’s only accounting united states, and new phones, and also mostly samsung or apple owners. The majority of the world uses android, and the screen aspect ratio really differs a lot. I have seen some people still use 9:16 and some 10:16 and some 21:9. Manh people are still using a device from 2017 right now.
So guess Yeh, you have think about every device which is impossible
So it’s better to search up for a general aspect ratio used between phones, and just work according to that. And to be honest, very few people still care about Facebook.
