Made a morph video of "portrait" - want to edit it "landscap

[bigass]

Hey, gang.

I've made a before-and-after weight loss morph video with Sqirlz Morph.

The images involved were shot in portrait dimensions -- high rather than wide.

Playing back the resulting video on the PC looks fine -- Media Player doesn't mind that the vertical dimension is the long one. But when I uploaded the clip to YouTube, of course, it stretched the horizontal all the way, distorting the video and making me look big 'n wide...naturally defeating the purpose of posting the weight loss clip, y'see.

I plan to include this and other morphed-from-portrait videos in a longer video.

I'm guessing the solution is to pass the video created by Sqirlz Morph through some other program to create a new 4:3 file with black borders on either side of my original video so I can work with it like any "normal" video.

If true, I'm n00b enough not to know what (simple) program would be most appropriate for such a task.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

Open the video in Virtualdub. Click on Video -> Filters and add the Resize filter. In the top section enter the dimensions of the video as it is now, so it doesn't change. Tick the box for Letterboxing, and in the bottom section, enter dimensions to make it square pixel compliant. eg. 640 x 480. This will add black vertical borders to the image. Click OK until you are back at the main virtualdub screen. Test it to make sure it looks OK, then click Video -> Compression and select a codec and configure it (YouTube likes Xvid < 100 MB) and create a new video.

Note : The dimensions you will enter into the resize filter depend on what the current dimensions are. As you haven't posted any, I have only given you an example. You need to adjust accordingly.

[bigass]

Thank you for the advice, sir. I'll give that a go. Much appreciated.