Hello, this is Cristi.
In this quick tutorial for Descript, I would like to show you how you can resize or reframe
a video in Descript.
If it's landscape and you want to turn it into a portrait video or vice versa, I want
to show you the steps to take and the way to do this without having to adjust every
single little cut of your video.
If you're in a composition and you.
Edits and cuts to your video or audio.
The video is going to have many slices as you'll see in the timeline, but then when
you try to resize one of them, it just, that slice is changing.
Just that piece of the video is changing to your new aspect ratio or your new dimensions.
And then that makes it very hard to reframe an entire video or episode or whatever you
are editing manually.
So I'm going to show you and walk you through the steps to take a landscape video.
So if you see this project that I have here, it is a zoom recording that I have already
transcribed and made some edits to in Descript..
And you can see it has both I and my In the, on the screen side by side, which is obviously
this is a landscape 16 by nine aspect, the way the zoom created with multiple guests.
So what I want to do, let's say for example, that I want to have just my guest.
On the screen in a vertical clip that I can maybe share to social media.
That means I have to reframe or change the aspect ratio of this clip and then resize
the video to fill my screen.
So what I'm talking about is this.
If you look at the timeline down here, you can see both my and my guests.
Speech is different colors.
So if I click on this one, for example, it selects the video.
And let's say that I want to turn this into a vertical clip.
So I go to the top, right to the video settings.
Button there.
And I have it now set to landscape at full HD resolution.
So what I want to do first, don't even worry about selecting anything or making any changes
here.
Just go there and change the new aspect ratio.
So let's suppose I want to do a portrait video, which is nine by 16.
When you select that your entire scene or canvas, or I don't know what this is called.
The video area changes to portrait.
And if you resize this pain here, just drag the edge, you can actually see the dark black
here and then the dark gray for the outside of the screen area.
But of course, now my video is right in the middle there in the center, and I need to
resize this.
The problem is if I open the properties panel and I start dragging these particular boxes
for the layout, you can see, I can make it larger.
Just click and slide.
And it, obviously I have to have my play head inside of that area that I'm resizing.
So you can see that I drag and I resize you can drag the X position to frame like this,
and you can keep scaling, keep scaling until you fill the screen, adjust that and keep
going like that.
Right.
So I'm getting near to a reframe of this.
In a vertical video, just like that.
Okay.
Not all of me fits in there, but that's not important right now.
So the 200% that is the maximum, you can go for the X, I believe.
So the height and the size, you know, you can change that a bit, you know, so that,
you know, when you're happy with the framing, let's suppose that's fine.
I'm a bit to the side there.
So maybe I should go a bit smaller.
Okay.
What I did now, I have reframed my myself in the frame and it's a vertical video, as
you can see now, the problem is if I scroll my mouse wheel down here on the timeline,
you can see that I've actually just adjusted that segment.
If I move my play head beyond that segment.
You will see that I've actually not resized everything else.
So if I go outside of this, now the video is back to that size.
So obviously that didn't do it.
So the way to do this is really in the timeline.
The first thing you do before you start resizing it and re you know, positioning the video,
click on the video.
And then select all control a on windows.
I think it's command a, on the Mac to make sure that you have selected the entire composition.
And I'm not saying that you should select texts because that doesn't do it.
If you just click inside of your text and control a you're just selecting the text.
And although down here, it looks like a selection has been made.
It is not the selection of the video.
It is a selection of.
The script.
So that's not what I want to do.
What I want to do is down here, I want to click on one of these cut segments and you
can see it has this black outline around it.
That indicates that particular segment is selected and then control a to make sure you
select everything.
If you want to make sure, just use your mouse wheel to scroll back, scroll, you know, scroll
down and you can now see that the entire.
Composition is selected.
And now I can make my reframe my repositioning, my resizing.
And you can actually see down here, up here on the inspection panel, it says multi in
three of these boxes.
That means.
Because I have adjusted one clip, I moved it.
I resized it.
I positioned it in a different place.
And then the other ones are not positioned.
They're in their original position.
These groups says in your selection, you have multiple different values for the COVID.
And in fact, I can move my play head around and I can see that.
Of course the rest of the clip is fulfilling the screen there.
And just this one segment is correct the way that I want.
So now with this selection, with the whole timeline selected you can go and start sliding
and you can start resizing and you can start adjusting the position of the.
So I think it was 200% there and the size was about 600%.
You can punch in the numbers because you know, it's faster than having to drag these things.
Check this out.
Now I am reframed and because I had everything selected, then the entire clip is now correctly
showing me full screen.
As you can see, I'm scrolling through it here and all the way to the end.
I am not actually appearing small on the screen anymore.
So this is one way to reframe video in Descript to ensure that the whole video gets resized
in a composition, even after you've made edits and cuts and so on.
So this is the same procedure.
If I want to maybe reframe to a square video, go to the top, select from the dropdown for
orientation, select screen.
And now my video is square.
You can resize this to just actually see what it is like.
And if you must make any adjustments in the framing, maybe positioning.
There you go.
And when you're happy, this is the reframed video.
And now watch if I just go, because I still have that selection active I'm going all the
way and it is all reframe.
So the position, of course, if you intentionally, if you really do want to have separate persons
of the video in a different position, then you have to go to that point.
Make sure you cut that piece of video and adjust that one individually.
For example, as it is here, look, my guest actually starts talking and I'm not saying
anything here, YouTube channel, you need to check out.
So my guests is talking.
I'm not talking.
So I'm just sitting there on the screen.
Well, if for this particular portion, I want my guests to be on the screen.
I select just his clip.
You can see here by the indication of the different color for the speech and I can use.
This box to bring him in the frame like soap.
So now watch his plant he's talking.
And then when the speaker changes, I should be showing up on the screen or the audio to
separate tracks.
Yeah.
Hi Chris.
Thanks for having me on.
So this is a kind of a multicam kind of idea.
I know these group has a function for the multicam detection, but if you need to do
this for a short clip or for a short, you know, a few exchanges between two speakers
or whatever, you can also do it manually because the multicam actually, I think doesn't do.
If you are on a single track, so I'm not sure about that.
So then you have it.
I hope this was useful.
I don't know if you are an institution like this, but this is what I do.
And I need to reframe clips, especially if I need to resell, reuse content for social
media, from like an interview.
And I want to show just my guest on the screen.
But keeping the audio and maybe the fancy captions.
You can add those in here on top and the video will just keep playing and you can put other
stuff on top.
So if I select everything here control shift, K to add fancy captions.
I have now a video with fancy captions on playing just on top.
People are switching their interviews for them.
So there you go.
So I hope this was helpful if you find this useful like it and share it and subscribe
to my channel, I will have more descript videos coming on my channel very soon with many tips
and tricks workflows and you know, answering a lot of questions that I get.
So thank you for watching.
See you on the next one.