Summary: You may have some videos in improper aspect ratio, giving rise to black bars on the screen when you’re playing them. This post will aid you to change the aspect ratio of the videos, be it 4:3, 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 etc. to fit with your screens.
Have you ever been in one of these sticky situations? You’ve recorded an awesome video to post on your Instagram, but it doesn’t feel good after uploading as it has blank corners; or you digitize your favorite DVD movie for playing on your HDTV, but it has black bars. It is probably because of the incorrect aspect ratio. What you need to do is to change the aspect ratio to fit with your device.
You know, aspect ratio refers to the relationship between the width and height of a video, which is expressed normally in the form of “width: height”, for example, 4:3 or 16:9, and it is irrelevant to the actual physical size of the image. If you put your video in an incorrect aspect ratio, you’ll see black bars or corners on your screen.
The most common video aspect ratio is 4:3 and 16:9. The former is the standard TV format, while the latter is the latest widescreen TV format. By far what happened most frequently is that the old full screen videos are played with black bars in widescreen devices. Besides, 1:1 and 9:16 are getting increasingly popular on social media sharing nowadays.
WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is an excellent aspect ratio converter, allowing you to change the aspect ratio among 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 9:16 and more. You can convert the aspect ratio to fit with any screens such as widescreen HDTV, computer monitors, smartphones, social media etc.
Specifically, it enables users to:
- Change the video aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9, 16:9 to 4:3, 3:2 to 1:1 and more without stretching or squashing.
- Crop the top and bottom of a video to change the dimensions to widescreen aspect ratio or whatever you want.
- Resize a video by converting a 4:3 resolution to 16:9 resolution, for example, 640 x 480 pixels to 1280 x 720 pixels, as well as adjust video parameters like frame rate, bit rate, audio settings etc.
- Convert video among MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, HEVC, VP9, and any formats; resize video without losing quality, edit and more.
How to Convert Video Aspect Ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 with WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe
Before everything, free download WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe on your computer. It’s available on Windows 11/10/8/7 and Mac OS X 10.6 or later. Then, let’s start the converting process.
Step 1. Load your source video.
Open the aspect ratio converter and click on the “+Video” button to browse and open the source video you want to convert. Alternatively, this can also be done through drag-n’-drop.
Step 2. Choose an output format.
Choose a desired output format from the automatically popped up Profiles window. You can convert video to MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, HEVC, or MPEG etc., or just select the read-made preset for TV, YouTube, Facebook, iPhone/iPad/Apple TV, Android, Xbox, etc.
Step 3. Change the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9. You have three ways here:
- Directly change the aspect ratio. Click on the Settings button to enter the parameters setting interface. Drop down the list of Aspect Ratio, and choose 16:9, or any other option if you want.
- Crop the frame video size. Click on the Edit button on the main interface. Click Crop & Expand button and check the Enable Crop box. Then, you’re able to type in the width and height of the video dimensions, or drag the cursor on the image to adjust the picture to the aspect ratio you want. To keep your video in 16:9 aspect ratio, you need to drop down the CropLetterBox and select 16:9 option.
- Change the video 16:9 resolutions. In the video parameter setting page, you can change the video aspect ratio for a widescreen display by adjusting its resolution. Click the Resolution button and open the dropdown menu. Select a 16:9 resolution like 1280×720, 1920×1080, or click Customize to set it by yourself.
Step 4. Click on the “Browse” button to choose an output folder for the output video. When you’re done, tap on the “RUN” button to start converting video aspect ratio immediately.
That’s it for change video aspect ratio. If your video is precisely in incorrect aspect ratio, try to change it by following the steps above to fit with your device or platform.