Need a bit of help with my rookie mistake

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Moldovan,

Please don’t be ashamed; we’ve all been there. If you don’t make mistakes, and loads of them, some very embarrassing, then you won’t learn.

My advice is to keep on failing, and you’ll soon be an expert in what works and what doesn’t work.

First up – drop CapCut, do not use it again. I know that this is not what you want to hear, but the app is banned on/off in several territories, + they want to assert their right to use your videos for their own usage and licence to third parties. What Google AI says:

“No, CapCut does not claim outright ownership, but by using its service, you grant it a broad, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, and sublicensable global license to use, modify, distribute, and monetize your content, including any likenesses, without notification or compensation. While you retain the copyright, CapCut can use your uploaded content for any purpose, including in advertisements or by licensing it to third parties”

For shooting and editing, you have plenty of choices out there, from free apps to one-off payments to subscriptions. Just make sure to read their T&Cs – the less they cost, the more of your blood, sweat and hard work they will take. But you will need to share what your preferred hardware is, even if mobile phone, before anyone can give you a meaningful answer.

As I can’t see the video, and there is not a lot of information in your description, I am assuming that you have shot it horizontal 16:9, and now found that all the places where you want to publish it is using the Vertical format 9:16?

Apart re-shooting, You have two choices, neither of which is pretty:

1) Place the horizontal video centre in the horizontal frame – it will be very small, but the whole frame will be there.

2) “Pan & Scan” is an old-age concept from when widescreen cinematic movies were “converted to full frame 4:3 television. In your case, you zoom in on your 16:9 video until it fills the 9:16 frame. Obviously, you’ll lose a sizeable chunk of the image, so you’ve got to decide what to keep?
There is a nice explainer here, including showing how Pan & Scan can ruin some of the greatest movies:
https://youtu.be/3Pq4t3y0kxU?si=34pPm3kj2obdgzCI

Hope this helps you move forward.

Atb
Mads

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