Video Size and Aspect Ratio

Select the video resolution

When you first create a project, you will see four formats from which you can choose. Widescreen, Social, Square, Portrait. 

• Widescreen (16:9) is a safe choice for all videos that are landscape-orientated, and it’s great for publishing on Youtube.
•  Social (4:5) is the best for posts on Facebook, Instagram and other social platforms. 
• The Square (1:1) is brilliant if you want aesthetically pleasing Instagram feed videos. 
• Portraits (9:16)  work well for stories on all social platforms, and they fit perfectly to the modern-day smartphone screen.

If you import videos with a smaller resolution, they will be shown on to the preview canvas with black bars around them. To quickly remove the black bars, select the video in your timeline, go to the properties menu and select “Fit to Canvas” or “Fill to Canvas”.

Keep note that resizing a clip to be bigger than the set resolution of the project will decrease the quality of that specific resized clip.

To avoid having a decrease of quality in that clip, you can resize the entire project to match the clip’s resolution. Once you open your project, look at the Properties menu on the right, and select a resolution that matches your clip.

Setting a custom resolution

To set a custom resolution for your video, open up your project, look at the Properties menu on the right, and you will see two boxes with a letter in front of them, “W” which stands for width, and “H” which stands for height. You can write inside of those boxes the values you want for your resolution.