Timeline and export settings

[DeauVille]

Please provide the correct settings on my timeline and the export settings for :

4K ultra wide 21:9

Especially the correct export settings since this is a bit of a grey zone to me…

Thanks in advance.

[MusicalBox]

Hi @DeauVille

You can create your own Video Mode presets.

1. Got to Settings / Video Mode / Custom / Add
2. Change the parameters to your preferences.
3. Give your preset a name (important) and clic OK.

This new video mode will be added to the custom modes.

You can also create custom Export presets.

1. Open the Export tab in Advanced mode.
2. Modify all the parameters to your preferences.
3. Click the PLUS button at the bottom of the presets list
4. Give you preset a name and click OK

This new Export preset will be added to the presets list, under Custom.

Note : The advance mode is for advanced users. Use it at your own risks if you’re not familiar with these parameters.

[Austin]

Here is a previous thread about the dimensions and aspect ratio used for 21:9 that will go in the custom Video Mode box referenced by @MusicalBox:

4k Cinematic for YouTube

Absolutely! I’m eager to see what you create. And I forgot to mention something else… The phrase “21:9 ultra-wide” is an incredibly generic marketing term that is applied to a lot of resolutions that are not true 21:9 in the mathematical sense. Like my first post showed, 3840x1600 is 2.4 whereas 21:9 is 2.333, and pixels will have to be squished non-square to correctly make up the difference. (That’s a bad thing.) There is a chart on Wikipedia of common “21:9” monitor resolutions and their…

If the source footage is 16:9, then some scaling or cropping will have to be done to get the footage to fit in 21:9. The following post has some tricks to make that process easier, although “Crop: Source” is also a good option not mentioned there:

4k Cinematic for YouTube

You are trying to create an ultra-wide video from a source that is not ultra-wide. The other forum members and I took it for granted that you would do some type of cropping or scaling on the source video to make it fill the 21:9 space. Sorry we skipped a step in our explanations. You’ve discovered the issue already, but let’s walk through the math anyway because there is a much better solution available than what you’re doing now. I assume your source video is 3840x2160. Shotcut by default…

You are right about 21:9 being a gray area. Its dimensions are only used by recent computer monitors. Cinema and television do not use those dimensions, nor do cameras natively record in those dimensions. Cinema and Blu-ray dimensions are listed in the Aspect Ratio section of the following post:

Cinematic look/effect how?

I see what you’re wanting to do, but the issue is that there’s no such thing as the “cinematic effect”. Some movies are dark and gritty while others are bright and airy. There are many factors that make a cinema-produced movie look better than home video, and all of these factors are specifically chosen to support the storyline above all else. Here are some examples (color tools are at the end of the list): Frame rate / shutter angle: Let’s get the biggest misconception out of the way firs…

For personal videos, it doesn’t matter which dimensions are used. But if there is any chance of a theatrical, television, or streaming release, then there are very specific constraints imposed by DCI, Netflix, etc. and none currently allow 21:9.