**Mastering Aspect Ratios and Resolutions in Video Editing**

When it comes to video editing, understanding aspect ratios and resolutions is crucial for creating a visually appealing and engaging final product. In this article, we will delve into the world of aspect ratios and explore the different types of resolutions used in cinematic productions.

**Native Resolution and Framing**

If you have footage that matches the native resolution of your display, such as 21:9 or 16:9, you can simply drag it onto your timeline and it will fit perfectly. However, if you have footage that is recorded in a different aspect ratio, such as 4:3, you may need to reframe it properly to fit within the composition of your timeline. For example, if you record footage in 4:3 at 1280x1024, you can drag this into your timeline and adjust its size to fit the 16:9 aspect ratio.

**Cinematic Aspect Ratios**

When it comes to cinematic productions, there are specific aspect ratios that are commonly used. For example, cinematic 4K is not actually 4096x2160, but rather 3840x1574. To set this as your cinematic resolution, you can create a new preset in your video editing software and save it as "Cinematic 4K 24." This will ensure that your final product is rendered in the correct aspect ratio for cinematic productions.

**Scaling and Adaptation**

When rendering out your final product, it's essential to consider how it will adapt to different displays. If you render out a 16:9 video at 3840 width, it may not scale well on smaller screens with narrower aspect ratios. However, if you make the original 4:3 composition and render it out in that resolution, it will adapt perfectly to any display, regardless of its aspect ratio.

**Avoiding Black Bars**

One common mistake made by video editors is adding black bars or PNG overlays to their footage to create a widescreen effect. This may seem like an easy fix, but it can actually screw over anyone who watches the video on a non-16:9 display. Instead, it's essential to edit your footage in a widescreen resolution from the start, rather than relying on black bars or overlays.

**Resources and Tips**

If you're looking for custom aspect ratios and resolutions to create your own presets, there are many online resources available. However, please never use black bar PNG overlays again unless it's absolutely necessary. Instead, focus on editing in a widescreen resolution from the start, and use your video editing software's built-in tools to ensure that your final product adapts well to different displays.

**Tools and Extensions**

One tool that has revolutionized my video editing workflow is Tubuddy, a YouTube extension that provides a range of powerful features. From automatic title generation to customizable thumbnails, Tubuddy has helped me streamline my workflow and produce high-quality content more efficiently.

**Conclusion**

Mastering aspect ratios and resolutions in video editing requires attention to detail and a deep understanding of the different types of resolutions used in cinematic productions. By following these tips and best practices, you can create visually stunning final products that adapt well to different displays, regardless of their aspect ratio. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, remember to always prioritize quality over convenience, and never settle for black bars or PNG overlays again.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody Adam Ros Vox here back with another quick little editing tutorial today I'm going to show you how to make your videos seem cinematic with the you know the the usual method of having black bars but the right way as I have a personal pet peeve against the normal way of doing this so you know if you've ever watched a movie and actually I can pull up a quick rip here of a movie right now you can see here the movie itself is not 16 by9 it is one of a variety of aspect ratios that are widescreen the upper and lower segments are not filmed at all they use anamorphic lenses to basically record a 16x9 thing that they can stretch out to look fancy well they they don't they don't go into their Hollywood video editing bays and drag on a PNG file of some black bars and overlay it on top no and I can't stand that anyone does this and so I want the entire world to stop doing this if you want to edit a video that you know only takes up this much space then you need to be editing in that actual aspect ratio and resolution for a variety of reasons first of all if you edit like this and you render to a too low of a bit rate or something happens in encoding or someone watches on a very low bit rate version on YouTube like 360p or something the black will actually get muddy because that's actual video footage here even if it's just a solid black color and compression can artifact it up and then that will look terrible for no no apparent reason second of all it does not adapt to different size monitors for example if you're making a 21 by9 video and you just add black bars to make it 21 by9 someone watching it on a 21 by9 monitor won't be able to view it properly because the video itself is not 21 by9 the black bars still make it a 16x9 video so they won't they will they will not only have black bars on the top and bottom but then they'll have pillar box black bars on the right and left sides as it tries to watch the video and it will just be a very unenjoyable viewing experience I actually have a whole video dedicated on this you can check out as well thirdly it takes more data to render out these sections now technically it t takes less data to render out the uh sections with the actual black image overlay than the full frame but it still takes up data data that could be going to preserving detail in your frame and you know cooperating better with YouTube compression so so avoid black bars like this or a a a slightly better option but still not a great option is to actually apply a a crop to your adjustment layer here and then say 100 off the top oh that's 100% 10 off the top and then tin off the bottom and then you'd have to reframe and recrop from and if you do it with the crop factor by the way then if you try to reframe it it's going to just move things in a very weird direction and you can't reframe frame with the adjustment it it gets it gets complicated the best way to go about this is to actually make presets based on the aspect ratio you want to edit so make a new sequence and for example I have a 21 by9 1080p uh preset here which is 1920x 810 or 2560 x 1080 or for a proper 1440p 20 b by9 sequence it is 3440 X 1440 and then you edit in that and then if you have 21 by9 footage you can drag that onto your timeline and it will fit natively or if you have 16x9 footage then you simply need to just reframe it properly to fit within the composition now if you're doing cinematic aspect ratios you kind of have to look up cinematic resolutions depending on your actual frame width for example uh cinematic 4K is not actually is not the 4096 x 216 that uh they that people would like you to think it for the 3840 width it's actually the resolution is 3840 by 1574 and then you can set that to 24 frames per second for your cinematic aspect ratio and that is actually the Cinematic resolution or there's no set one like I said there's a bunch of different ones that movies have used over the years but this is a cinematic 4K aspect ratio that actually makes sense and then I can save that as cinematic 4K 24 for 4K 24 FPS and then anytime I want to make a new sequence instead of using a 16x9 composition that isn't going to adapt to people's displays properly I can make that one and you can see it's fairly similar with to 21 by9 but it's not quite 21 by9 here and then drag in our tutorial then I can I can't make it any less wide because it's already 3840 width but I can reframe here and and when you render it out it will render out on YouTube you know it'll render out at this size and then on YouTube it will adapt it to your display so whether you're on a 4x3 display a 16x9 display a 21 by9 display 16 X10 whatever it will automatically adapt whether you know the pillar the pillar boxing and letter boxing to fit the display properly and all of the bit rate all of your data rate going to your video footage actually goes to data that's or you know to actual video footage instead of black bars like to me it is super important on top of the fact that things don't scale like if you render out a 4x3 video in a 16x9 here I I'll make something real quick here uh let me do so let's say you recorded you're you're making a video in 4x3 so 1280x 1024 for example is a frame rate or a frame rate a resolution that is 4x3 so we will drag this footage into here now this is what bad T if you ever remember the transition period between widescreen and you know not widescreen televisions you to end up with a lot of weird situations like this where if you were watching non HD channels on your HD TV service you would get this on top of your widescreen TV and so it just would be in like the center of the screen that's specifically what we're trying to avoid here so if I scale it up all right now if I make a normal 16x9 so if this is how you're doing 4x3 where you're pillar boxing it yourself you're screwing over anyone who actually watches on a 6 x 10 or 4x3 screen because you're hard baking these black bars into your video footage and it screws over anyone with a non 16x9 display when if you were to actually just make the original 4x3 composition here and render it out that way then anyone on a 4x3 screen can watch it full screen no problem and anyone on a 16 X10 or you know we're going to see a lot of new aspect ratio monitors soon it it's going to adapt to the display a lot better so I will post a couple resources where you can get some C itic aspect ratios and resolutions to make your own custom presets here but please please never use black bar PNG overlays ever again like I will tear anyone I know personally a new one for doing it unless it's in the middle of an edit like if you're doing a normal edit here and then you want to make something specific super cinematic then you can overlay black bars but otherwise if your whole video is going to have the black bars over it you damn well better be actually editing in a widescreen resolution instead of adding a black bar image to your video like a scrub rant over hit the like button if you enjoyed get subscribed for more awesome videos this video is brought to you by two buddy the number one YouTube extension or you know add-on I could possibly ever recommend I've used it for a couple years now and it has been the main reason that I have found so much success on YouTube is due to the tools that it provides tubudy docomo foox evos fox.com tubudy go check it out I'll see you next timehey what's going on everybody Adam Ros Vox here back with another quick little editing tutorial today I'm going to show you how to make your videos seem cinematic with the you know the the usual method of having black bars but the right way as I have a personal pet peeve against the normal way of doing this so you know if you've ever watched a movie and actually I can pull up a quick rip here of a movie right now you can see here the movie itself is not 16 by9 it is one of a variety of aspect ratios that are widescreen the upper and lower segments are not filmed at all they use anamorphic lenses to basically record a 16x9 thing that they can stretch out to look fancy well they they don't they don't go into their Hollywood video editing bays and drag on a PNG file of some black bars and overlay it on top no and I can't stand that anyone does this and so I want the entire world to stop doing this if you want to edit a video that you know only takes up this much space then you need to be editing in that actual aspect ratio and resolution for a variety of reasons first of all if you edit like this and you render to a too low of a bit rate or something happens in encoding or someone watches on a very low bit rate version on YouTube like 360p or something the black will actually get muddy because that's actual video footage here even if it's just a solid black color and compression can artifact it up and then that will look terrible for no no apparent reason second of all it does not adapt to different size monitors for example if you're making a 21 by9 video and you just add black bars to make it 21 by9 someone watching it on a 21 by9 monitor won't be able to view it properly because the video itself is not 21 by9 the black bars still make it a 16x9 video so they won't they will they will not only have black bars on the top and bottom but then they'll have pillar box black bars on the right and left sides as it tries to watch the video and it will just be a very unenjoyable viewing experience I actually have a whole video dedicated on this you can check out as well thirdly it takes more data to render out these sections now technically it t takes less data to render out the uh sections with the actual black image overlay than the full frame but it still takes up data data that could be going to preserving detail in your frame and you know cooperating better with YouTube compression so so avoid black bars like this or a a a slightly better option but still not a great option is to actually apply a a crop to your adjustment layer here and then say 100 off the top oh that's 100% 10 off the top and then tin off the bottom and then you'd have to reframe and recrop from and if you do it with the crop factor by the way then if you try to reframe it it's going to just move things in a very weird direction and you can't reframe frame with the adjustment it it gets it gets complicated the best way to go about this is to actually make presets based on the aspect ratio you want to edit so make a new sequence and for example I have a 21 by9 1080p uh preset here which is 1920x 810 or 2560 x 1080 or for a proper 1440p 20 b by9 sequence it is 3440 X 1440 and then you edit in that and then if you have 21 by9 footage you can drag that onto your timeline and it will fit natively or if you have 16x9 footage then you simply need to just reframe it properly to fit within the composition now if you're doing cinematic aspect ratios you kind of have to look up cinematic resolutions depending on your actual frame width for example uh cinematic 4K is not actually is not the 4096 x 216 that uh they that people would like you to think it for the 3840 width it's actually the resolution is 3840 by 1574 and then you can set that to 24 frames per second for your cinematic aspect ratio and that is actually the Cinematic resolution or there's no set one like I said there's a bunch of different ones that movies have used over the years but this is a cinematic 4K aspect ratio that actually makes sense and then I can save that as cinematic 4K 24 for 4K 24 FPS and then anytime I want to make a new sequence instead of using a 16x9 composition that isn't going to adapt to people's displays properly I can make that one and you can see it's fairly similar with to 21 by9 but it's not quite 21 by9 here and then drag in our tutorial then I can I can't make it any less wide because it's already 3840 width but I can reframe here and and when you render it out it will render out on YouTube you know it'll render out at this size and then on YouTube it will adapt it to your display so whether you're on a 4x3 display a 16x9 display a 21 by9 display 16 X10 whatever it will automatically adapt whether you know the pillar the pillar boxing and letter boxing to fit the display properly and all of the bit rate all of your data rate going to your video footage actually goes to data that's or you know to actual video footage instead of black bars like to me it is super important on top of the fact that things don't scale like if you render out a 4x3 video in a 16x9 here I I'll make something real quick here uh let me do so let's say you recorded you're you're making a video in 4x3 so 1280x 1024 for example is a frame rate or a frame rate a resolution that is 4x3 so we will drag this footage into here now this is what bad T if you ever remember the transition period between widescreen and you know not widescreen televisions you to end up with a lot of weird situations like this where if you were watching non HD channels on your HD TV service you would get this on top of your widescreen TV and so it just would be in like the center of the screen that's specifically what we're trying to avoid here so if I scale it up all right now if I make a normal 16x9 so if this is how you're doing 4x3 where you're pillar boxing it yourself you're screwing over anyone who actually watches on a 6 x 10 or 4x3 screen because you're hard baking these black bars into your video footage and it screws over anyone with a non 16x9 display when if you were to actually just make the original 4x3 composition here and render it out that way then anyone on a 4x3 screen can watch it full screen no problem and anyone on a 16 X10 or you know we're going to see a lot of new aspect ratio monitors soon it it's going to adapt to the display a lot better so I will post a couple resources where you can get some C itic aspect ratios and resolutions to make your own custom presets here but please please never use black bar PNG overlays ever again like I will tear anyone I know personally a new one for doing it unless it's in the middle of an edit like if you're doing a normal edit here and then you want to make something specific super cinematic then you can overlay black bars but otherwise if your whole video is going to have the black bars over it you damn well better be actually editing in a widescreen resolution instead of adding a black bar image to your video like a scrub rant over hit the like button if you enjoyed get subscribed for more awesome videos this video is brought to you by two buddy the number one YouTube extension or you know add-on I could possibly ever recommend I've used it for a couple years now and it has been the main reason that I have found so much success on YouTube is due to the tools that it provides tubudy docomo foox evos fox.com tubudy go check it out I'll see you next time\n"