Same size

[PeterBee]

Hi All,
and wish you all the best for 2021
I am 60 yrs, I am a beekeeper and video and vlogging is completely new for me.
I found Shotcut, love it, but struggle with it.
(because video editting is new for me)
at the moment i’m struggling with the size of the clips
How do I create them all the same size?
Some clips are filling the player, others have a (large) black border.
How do I look it all the same size?

thx in advance
I am willing to learn!

Regards
Peter

[brian]

Hi Peter,

Welcome to the forum.

To get your started, here is some good reading:

Project Management

Introduction Shotcut does not provide very much in the way of project management at this time. Rather, you are required to manage many aspects of this. There are a few things you should know: Shotcut saves to a project file in a text format called MLT XML. (Technical detail on that format can be found here.) The project file does not contain any of your media. Rather, it only links to your media files by file system path and name. There are 3 different kinds of projects: Clip If you put a…

Video Mode

Introduction Video Mode is the project resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate, and color space. It is important to set this as you desire at the beginning of your project. If you try to change it later Shotcut will try to retain the timing of edits, but some users have reported problems, and it is risky. Also, at this time Shotcut will not automatically adjust anything for you related to size and positioning of elements like text and picture-in-picture when changing resolution. You can think of…

Size, Position & Rotate

Location: Filters - Video - Size & Position. [2019-09-23_16-26-02] [2019-09-23_16-27-08] [shotcut_2019-09-23_16-30-24] [2019-09-23_16-29-10] Default Shotcut Installation: This filter will be located in the Favorite tab . This Favorte can be removed/added by clicking on the * symbol. [shotcut_2019-09-23_16-30-40] This filter is used to manipulate the size and placement of a video/image in your video. This filter can also use Keyframes. Size Modes: Fit - Will not enlarge image/video in t…

Regarding your specific size question, It will help a lot if you are able to share some screenshots of your project. We would like to see the properties panels for your clips. Also, people will want to know what you have the video mode set to.

Fundamentally, it comes down to:

1. Choose the video mode that you want for your final project
2. Clips that already match your video mode should look good
3. Clips that do not match your video mode will require aspect ratio conversion. Shotcut adds padding by default, but you can use the size-position-rotate filter to crop instead.

[PeterBee]

Hi Brian,

This helped a lot! Thx!
I started my first 4 video’s with a introducing image with text.
The 5th video I started staight from the camera.
I now understand Shotcut standard sets to automatic video format and takes the first clip on the timeline as a default.
So for the first 4 video’s it was the size of the image, en the 5th the size of the first clip.
Which was not 16:9 but 9:16

I set for the 5th video the video modus on HD 720p 50fps
Which will did the trick for now. ratio is set to 16:9

Which video setting would you advice to create video’s for sharing on social media channels?
(LinkedIn, Facebook)

thx again,
Regards,
Peter

[Elusien]

A useful site to see what recommendation various social media sites (including LinkedIn and Facebook) for videos on their platform.

Always Up-to-Date Guide to Social Media Video Specs

[PeterBee]

thx, I had to study it, but it gives me on first sight enough guidelines.
Thanks!
Peter