Click File, Select Profile to see this popup:

One of the first steps in editing any video is to choose the Profile for the Video Preview Panel. Profiles are used during editing, previewing, and exporting to provide a quick way to switch between common combinations of these settings. Click Views, Views, Simple View.Ī profile is a collection of video settings (size, frame rate, aspect ratio). You can change the appearance of Open Shot to a light background by clicking Edit Preferences and changing the default theme from dark to no theme. Then from the Debian Start icon, go to Sound and Video category and click on Open Shot to open it. You can download a free video editing program called Open Shot from the Debian Software Center. We will then explain how to resize and crop a video to fit whatever size you need for your website module video backgrounds.ĭownload and Change the Appearance of Open Shot In this article, we will explain how to use Open Shot to add custom aspect ratios to their list of options. This can be a problem if you want a background video for a module that is 16 by 4.5 or 16 by 16. Thus, any free background videos you download are likely to be one of these two aspect ratios. The common video sizes are ratios of 16 by 9 or 4 by 3.

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