Change Aspect Ratio for Better Display Effect

“Is there any way to change the aspect ratio of a video I downloaded from 16:9 to 4:3?”

“How can I convert aspect ratio of an AVI video into 1.78:1 for finely playing on my widescreen TV?”

If you’re reading this article, you probably have suffered from false aspect ratio issues, the same as the users asking the questions above. You spent hours downloading some MP4 videos and were ready to watch them on your devices. But when you put them on the devices, the image looked overly stretched because of the incorrect aspect ratio.

So what to do next? To deal with the screen size defect of video enjoyment, it’s good for you to change the aspect ratio of a video to make the display effect better fit. This article is mainly to expand your knowledge on how to change video aspect ratio easily with a powerful video aspect ratio converter.

Before that, let’s learn more about standard aspect ratio. Then you can choose the right one to convert video aspect ratio.

Video aspect ratio is the proportion between width and height of the video image. It determines videos' final display effect on various devices directly. For your reference, the table on the left shows the most common aspect ratios.

Now we know that 16:9 is common for widescreen TVs. 4:3 is for old TVs. If there is defect of aspect ratio or conflict of screen size, you can see some black bars on both sides or at top and bottom. It will really have a negative effect on enjoying high quality resources. The black bar seems more like an extra part of the original video. If you want to get better display effect, you do need to replace them with the suitable video aspect ratio. Based on this point, you need a powerful video aspect ratio changer to help you adjust video ratio.

It’s simple to change aspect ratio with WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro. But it can do more for you. For instance, it is able to convert SD video to higher definition video with advanced HD encoding technology, and also reduce video files size while keeping original quality as much as possible in batches to save portable device space. It is capable of fixing nearly all video conversion problems. Transcoding some irregular video formats like DAV, RMVB, MOD to mainstream video formats (MP4, MKV, MPG, etc) is supported as well.

You can even use the built-in HD video editor to merge video, split video clips, crop video, as well as add special effects to enhance your captured travelling video from your Camcorders or DV like Sony HD camcorder, Cannon HD Camcorder with luxuriant sound and picture quality, while in a high converting speed.

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