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Fit any video into a 1920x1080 frame with bars using FFmpeg scale and pad

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For editors who need clips of any shape inside a 1920x1080 frame without stretching. You end with a centred picture on bars and even dimensions that common encoders accept. Based on the FFmpeg manual; no command was run.

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Fit any video into a 1920x1080 frame with bars using FFmpeg scale and pad

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For editors who need clips of any shape inside a 1920x1080 frame without stretching. You end with a centred picture on bars and even dimensions that common encoders accept. Based on the FFmpeg manual; no command was run.

Example

The manual's case of a 1920x800 video limited to 1280x720, which gives 1280x533, with the bar size worked out by the author; not run.

Useful starting points

  • A stretched picture usually means scale was given both dimensions without the keep-aspect option.
  • An encoder that rejects a size is often seeing an odd width or height.
  • Bars that sit to one side mean the pad offsets were left at zero.
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