Creating Verticle Format Video Project (1080 x1920)

Chris-Kuhn wrote on 12/28/2021, 6:18 AM

Hey everyone. After searching the help posts and fiddling in the program to no avail, I'm hoping someone would point me in the right direction so that I can create a project template ratio that exports at a vertical format (1080x1920).

I'd like to edit clips originally recorded in horizontal format (1920x1080) in the timeline and export these clips as Instagram stories, Tik Tok clips, etc.

I tried entering a manual aspect ratio in the project settings but that didn't seem to change anything. I'm sure this is a user error and something I'm missing.

Thanks in advance!

Chris

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CubeAce wrote on 12/28/2021, 6:33 AM

Hi Chris.

You should make the project settings in the movie settings and not the project settings if you want the setting to take.

The monitor preview window will show as normal. The export though will be as set.

Note the default export settings when opened.

Ray.

johnebaker wrote on 12/28/2021, 6:46 AM

@Chris-Kuhn

In addition to @CubeAce comment, also see this tutorial - it additionally covers a couple of potential issues you may have, although it uses an older version of MEP it is still applicable for earlier and later versions of MEP.

John EB
Forum Moderator

Chris-Kuhn wrote on 12/28/2021, 7:37 AM

Thanks @CubeAce and @johnebaker

From looking at Ray's screenshots (very helpful, I appreciate it) I saw that while I was entering 1080x1920 in the project settings, I did not change the aspect ratio to the correct 9:16.

I'll check out that tutorial as well thanks!

Former user wrote on 12/28/2021, 5:30 PM

@Chris-Kuhn Hi, you need to swap 16:9 to 9:16, it'll look like this so you can edit, scale, crop it,

I only changed the 1920x1080 & 16:9, the rest above those boxes 'Vertical (1080x1920...etc. filled itself in

Chris-Kuhn wrote on 12/29/2021, 7:57 AM

@Former user Thanks