Trying to change orientation to Portrait Mode for Instagram and Youtube Shorts

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Choose a vertical video mode in Setting > Video Mode > Non-Broadcast

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…

Add a Crop: Source filter to remove padding and parts of the image to better fill the frame:

Crop: Source Video Filter

Crop: Source removes rows or columns of pixels from the edges of the source video or image before the image is scaled and padded to match the current Video Mode. When cropping, selection is centered to the Video Mode because padding is used to maintain the aspect ratio and prevent the image from appearing stretched or squished. Keyframes are not available with this filter. [image] This filter can only be applied to Source or a selected clip; it cannot be applied to a track or Output because th…