Thankyou. Am still learning.

George

@Xenofex2, @Former user

Hi George, Gid

See this tutorial on working with 9:16 AR video.

Gid

. . . . it can't be 9:16 if the width 848 (always width 1st) is more than the height 480. . . . .

It can, the video has a 90° rotation flag to indicate that it is portrait.

HTH

John EB
Forum Moderator

@Xenofex2

Hi George.

We are all still learning. It's just a matter of degree 😉😂

Ray.

Thankyou for all the tips and the pointer to that Tutorial. My project worked fab.

Our daughter & family who now live abroad had just sent us some video clips of their garden. So instead of enjoying our nice warm summer evening, I have just spent the evening putting together a short movie comparing how it looks now with how it was 12 months ago when they moved in to the new build.

Couldn't resist though adding the 60's track 'English Country Garden' in the background.

Thankyou Everyone.

George

@Xenofex2

Glad it's worked George.

When in doubt, Gid was sort of correct, the first number is always width but a smaller number first would always indicate it is shot in portrait. Hence my first ratio number was smaller than the second number and in MEP and VPX has to be typed into the setup section manually. After that it should behave itself. If it doesn't just manually type in the pixels again in the export box if you are using the 'Export As' option.

There are plenty of ratio calculators online you can use to get from pixels to ratios.

Ray.

@Xenofex2

Hi George,

For me, it depends on what I want as a final result, with due consideration given to the source format(s). If I want to watch this on a full screen, like a telly, then I'll use 16;9 (1920X1080). I am not going to turn the telly on its side to watch a portrait video. There are some effects in MEP that will fill in the left and right sides of the wretched portrait video.

I suggest that you do yourself and the world a favour and tell your daughter that you would like to see her garden and family right across your full TV screen, not just a sliver of it. Tell her to always, and I mean always, turn her cell phone sideways when taking video and film in landscape mode. There should be a law against taking portrait mode video.

John CB

Hi sorry i quit this convo, i had to go to work & it was irritating me, @johnebaker apart from the op saying it was portrait there's no mention of a 90º flag? @CubeAce mention that it was 9:16 was wrong, 848 x 480 is closer to 16:9 than 9:16 but obviously when imported or viewed because it was intended as a portrait video it would look wrong & on it's side, i got hung p on those 'facts' 🤷‍♂️🕺

@Xenofex2 In future,

Put your video on the timeline, it'll loo wrong

Go to File - Settings - Movie & swap the numbers in height & width around, then put in the Ratio box those same numbers in that order with a : between them & click OK, Magix will correct the project, you can tell what is the project size by the black on the preview window

but now the video image looks wrong

Go to Orientation & flip the image 90º using the curved arrows,

to export make sure the sizes & ratio match the project, type them in if you have to like i did in mpeg-4 pic below

but HEVC added them automatically

@browj2 Hi, is there 1 effect that does that, or is it a case of duplicating the track, stretching & blurring it as i've done in the past, ?

@Former user

Hi Gid.

You are correct.

Seeing George mention it was shot in portrait mode I switched the numbers in my head just to get the correct ratio. It comes from shooting a lot of still photography. I do it without conscious thought. The same as setting manual camera settings, it's second nature now..

While I agree with John CB on his views of shooting with a phone wholeheartedly, modern monitors can be swung around 90° to portrait position in a matter of seconds with a decent stand. Some people who work with multiple monitors will have one permanently in a portrait orientation. Useful if you have to work with documents a lot as well.

Ray.

@Former user

I think John is referring to Effects / Design elements / EdgeEffects.

Ray.

@CubeAce yeah i think i understood the reason for the mention of 9:16, but i got hung up on in the convo the lack of mention that it was more like 16:9 rather than 9:16 & it just needed rotating, it wasn't just you though, everyone was talking 9:16 but the OP obviously didn't seem to know a whole lot about the difference or they wouldn't have posted, anyway ... 🤷‍♂️😂

I don't seem to have the effect you mention 🤷‍♂️🧐

Vegas has Black Bar fill, add it n it does i all for you,

Boris has a similar option but that's very messy, lots of things to alter & set

@Former user

Hi,

Yes, the one that you show in your screen shot - Image Border Effects Basic - try applying one or previewing them. They use the video to create the left and right sides, usually blurred/zoom blurred, etc.

John CB