Converting 16:9 to 9:16

ArchedEdge

Newbie Joined: Dec 01, 2017 11:14 Messages: 30 Offline

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Jun 23, 2018 05:48

Hi guys

So I've got a fully completed project and video that was made in 16:9 and I now want to convert it to 9:16

However when I change this setting on PD for the project, it automatically makes the horizontal vid fit fully into the vertical bars, so there's huge black gaps at the top and bottom.

How can I make PD automatically zoom in to the centre of the original clip so it fully fillls the vertical screen? Aside from manually doing it of course - as my project is now dozens of tiny clips put together!

https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/63858.page#295440

I see from this one there is a way, however this severely distorts the image PD creates and is completely unusable!


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AVPlayVideo

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Jun 23, 2018 07:01

I understand that video produced in 16x9 should be produced in 16x9, and when viewed on your smartphone you should turn it horizontally XEON-E5-2680 v4 / Mem. 16GB DDR4
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Hatti

Contributor Location: Bonn, Germany Joined: Feb 21, 2017 15:54 Messages: 576 Offline

Jun 23, 2018 08:38

There is no way to do it automatically. But you can do it with the PiP Designer for one clip ("Scale" and "Position" in PiP Designer), copy the attributes and paste the attributes to the other clips.
My point of view: We see the world wider than high. Except using smartphones. There the world is higher than wide.

I don't like the 9:16 mode.

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ArchedEdge

Newbie Joined: Dec 01, 2017 11:14 Messages: 30 Offline

Jun 23, 2018 10:11

Quote There is no way to do it automatically. But you can do it with the PiP Designer for one clip ("Scale" and "Position" in PiP Designer), copy the attributes and paste the attributes to the other clips.
My point of view: We see the world wider than high. Except using smartphones. There the world is higher than wide.

I don't like the 9:16 mode.

Hatti

Great thank you for clarifying - 9:16 isn't the most natural way but with Instagram now launching vertical videos, think it's likely we'll be seeing this much more frequently!

Quote I understand that video produced in 16x9 should be produced in 16x9, and when viewed on your smartphone you should turn it horizontally

Well this was extremely helpful and answered my question. Thanks.

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