Issue with video size from phone

[mitya]

Hi all, first-time poster

I recorded a video on my phone.

When I import it into VSDC it seems to have gutter/padding around it, as shown here (yellow arrows denote padding):


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I don't know where this is coming from. When I play the video in, say, Windows Media Player, the paddinng isn't there. And in VSDC, if I go Crop > Custom region, the video displays without padding.


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Basically I just want the canvas to match the video size/dimensions. Is this possible? (Obviously I'd need to rotate it too, but I'll deal with it after solving this issue).

Thanks in advance!

[Bwaak]

Have you dropped it into a widescreen project?

[Cornucopia]

Rotating it (probably) WILL solve the issue.

Odds are you shot it in portrait mode (so ~1080 x 1920) and your editor is using landscape mode widescreen (~1920 x 1080). If you do the math, you will see that what you are experiencing will look exactly like how it tries to accommodate the discrepancy, with auto-generated padding/borders.


Scott

[mitya]

Thank you for the replies. Rotating it in VSDC did not solve the issue but it's true that I seem to have recorded the video in portrait mode (my fault - it should have been landscape.) I'll try again!