Wrong aspect ratio displaying in PowerDirector

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Wrong aspect ratio displaying in PowerDirector - can it be corrected?

CabinLife

Newbie Joined: Dec 08, 2019 16:43 Messages: 14 Offline

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Mar 01, 2021 10:23

I recorded a short video in 16:9 aspect ratio on my phone, It displays on my PC windows media player as 16:9 but when put into Power Director the video clip displays as 9:16. Is there any way to flip the display of the video clip in Power Director?

Power Director is giving me an aspect ratio error message recommending changing the aspect ratio of the project, which I don't want to do.
I added a screen print of the 2 displays (PD and Windows Media Player

Thanks for your help
Maureen


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Warry

Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline

Mar 01, 2021 11:13

First of all, maintain the 16:9 ratio in PD, so do not change that to 9:16 when loading the clip into the timeline.
After you have put the clip on your timeline, then you can do either

leave it as is, because the stand-up position of the clip is correct. You might want to look at the top and bottom parts of the clip to see whether you can zoom in a bit, so that more of the clip fills the 16:9 screen

or rotate the clip from horizontal to vertical position, so that the clip fills the complete 16:9 screen, as it was meant to be when you recorded the clip. After the rotation you can size the clip by dragging one of the white point in any of the corners to make it fill the full 16:9 space.

(I cannot see on you picture which of these it should be.)
Hope that this helps.

AVPlayVideo

Senior Contributor Location: Home Joined: Apr 06, 2016 19:03 Messages: 703 Offline

Mar 01, 2021 11:37

In addition to what Warry showed.
On the timeline, right click on the video, Set clip attributes, Set Aspect Ratio ...
Once the window is open, check the option.
The aspect ratio of the video is 16: 9
Check Apply to all videos clips if applicable.
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