Quick Guide to Change Video Aspect Ratio

Without a doubt, video aspect ratio matters for videos. On various occasions, the modification of video aspect ratio is needed. Especially when you prepare to upload and share your created video to video sharing websites or media social platforms, like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc, but you are prompted to change aspect ratio of video to fit the platform, you must be wondering if it is possible to custom the height and width of your video as required. In this full guide, you will find the answer and get 2 different solutions to fulfill the task.

Part 1: Joyoshare Media Cutter [Offline]

Part 2: Clideo Video Resizer [Online]

 

Part 1: How to Change Video Aspect Ratio in Joyoshare Media Cutter Offline

By the name of media cutter, Joyoshare Media Cutter is actually known as a piece of video editing software available for Mac besides Windows. It is equipped with a series of stunning editing tools. In addition to quickly changing the aspect ratio of any video, it also capable of losslessly cutting and splitting video, cropping, trimming, merging, adjusting, watermarking, captioning, rotating, and more. Joyoshare Media Cutter is quite easy to use and supports tons of media formats. Whatever format the video you import is, you can operate it to edit the aspect ratio by yourself without any technical skill.

Step 1: Load video to Joyoshare Media Cutter

Before all else, you should equip your computer with the program and then open it. On its main screen, go to "Open" to browse the local folder to upload the target video. You are also allowed to import a video file by dragging and dropping. Note that only one file can be added at a time.

Step 2: Specify output format under encoding mode

After that, click "Format" button to the next window, in which there are two modes - high-speed mode and encoding mode. To change the aspect ratio of video, you have to start the encoding mode and specify the output format in this mode. The encoding mode is a customizable mode, which allows the customization of file format parameters like codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, etc. If you are tech-savvy, do it as you like.

Step 3: Start to change video aspect ratio

Return to the main interface and locate an "Edit" icon beside the added video file. On the editing screen, choose "Adjust" and click the drop-down button of "Aspect Ratio". There are different options for video aspect ratio. You just need to click the desired one and preview the result in real-time on the right window. Besides, you can use its cropping tool to custom the aspect ratio for your video by simply dragging the white cropping window or manually entering the values of width and height. When all is done, please remember to touch "Start" located on the first screen to export and save the created video.

Part 2: How to Change Aspect Ratio of Video in Clideo Video Resizer Online

After the introduction of desktop video editor to change video aspect ratio, here comes an online service - Clideo to pull the job off without download and registration. Clideo is so popular web video editing tool that almost everyone knows it. It comes with an ad-free and clean interface, providing users with easy and effective solutions to complete various editing tasks. It designed a video resizer tool is for editing the aspect ratio of video. You just visit www.clideo/resize-video.com and then do the following. 

Step 1: Import video to Clideo

In the Clideo Video Resizer interface, click "+" icon to import the video file from your computer. Or, touch the drop-down button of "Choose file" to upload a file from Google Drive, Dropbox, or URL.

Step 2: Custom aspect ratio of video

When the video is loaded up, you will be brought to the next interface, in which you can start changing the video aspect ratio. Under "Resize for" option on the right part of the screen, choose "Custom" and select the proper aspect ratio for your video. If what you want is to change video aspect ratio for uploading it to video sharing websites, it is better to opt for the corresponding site in "Resize for". Clideo will automatically set a suitable aspect ratio that the video website requires.

Step 3: Export the download final video

Once done, touch "Resize" to general the final video. The process will take some time. Wait patiently until it is finished. Then, download the resulting video file to your system. By the way, there will be an official watermark left on the produced video.