



This background color will also show for larger clips that have been scaled down to fit your specified dimensions, but are either too tall or too short to fit exactly, thus leaving solid-colored bars at either the sides or the top and bottom of your window. If unchecked, the content will be placed in the center of the window, with a border around it to fill up the rest of the window, the color of which can be specified by clicking the Background Color… button. If the Stretch to fit check box is checked, then the smaller content will be scaled up to fill the video window. For clips that are smaller than the set dimensions, one of two things happen, based on your settings. Any included clips that are larger than those dimensions are scaled down. The first section, Video size, will let you determine the dimensions of the final video as well as influence how your content is displayed within them.įor example, say you set your video dimensions to 640 x 480. While the Encoding Options screen will manifest itself in different ways for the various file formats, your Video Size dialog will remain constant for almost all video output formats. The encoding options vary greatly according to the individual file type, and we’ll therefore discuss the encoding options in the next section, when we talk about the various file formats in more detail. The first choice after selecting a file format typically involves picking how you want the file encoded, that is, the algorithm you’ll use to compress that file down to an itty-bitty size while retaining as much of the video’s quality as possible. While the various file formats have very fundamental differences, there are some basic commonalities about the kinds of decisions you’ll need to make along the way. Producing a video is all about taking that edited footage and then making choices that will have a profound effect on the final video’s size and quality. What other options do you have left that will affect the look and video of your final video? Plenty, as it turns out. Okay, so you’ve taken a bunch of raw screen footage and then edited the pants off it, adding everything from callouts to markers to an additional audio track.
