What is aspect ratio?
Definition
Aspect ratio is the shape of a video frame, written as width to height: 16:9 is wide, 1:1 is square, 9:16 is vertical.
Websites, YouTube and presentations use 16:9. Feeds often use 1:1 or 4:5. Shorts, Reels and TikTok use 9:16.
A desktop recording is wide, so making it square or vertical means placing it on a background and zooming so the important part fills the frame.
In Sceed
In Sceed the canvas shape is a setting. The same take re-lays itself out as wide, square or vertical.
How to make a vertical screen recording →
Related terms
- Resolution
- Resolution is the number of pixels in each frame of a video, written as width × height, for example 1920 × 1080.
- Padding
- Padding is the space between a screen recording and the edge of the video frame, where the background shows.
- Zoom and pan
- Zoom and pan is moving a virtual camera over a video: zooming magnifies part of the frame, and panning slides the view across it.