Editing YouTube and Tiktok videos in the same project

mattyg1192003 wrote on 1/11/2024, 6:59 PM

Hello All,

I am shooting video for both YouTube and TikTok using Sony Vegas Pro 13. I shot all video horizontally and used the grid lines on my phone to make sure my subject was in between the vertical lines with the intention of editing the video for YouTube using the whole horizontal video, and then changing the project size before rendering to 1020x1980 for TikTok. I thought the video would fit to where the vertical grid lines were when shooting, but instead it is squashing the entire video to 1020x1980. Does anyone know of way to do this within Vegas?

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john_dennis wrote on 1/11/2024, 7:14 PM

Unless you shoot with pixel dimensions far in excess of 1920 x1080 or 1080 x 1920 your result will be sub-optimal for one of the target delivery channels.

TANSTAAFL

Pick one.
Shoot with two cameras.
Shoot with a camera with higher pixel dimensions.

Pan/Crop.

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Dexcon wrote on 1/11/2024, 7:51 PM

Does anyone know of way to do this within Vegas?

Yes, but it involves having 2 separate .veg projects: one for YT and the other for TikTok.

... and then changing the project size before rendering to 1020x1980 for TikTok.

But you'll also need to frame the video events on the timeline to match the 1080x1920 vertical format.

The image in the Trimmer window is the original 16:9 image which is fine for 16:9 delivery (e.g. YT), but to get 9:16 I've used Track Motion to zoom in on the image so that the image fills the frame vertically. Being at track level, Track Motion affects all video events on that track.

Without making any changes to the image format on the timeline and only changing the project size in Project Properties, you'll get the following result:

mattyg1192003 wrote on 1/13/2024, 9:05 AM

Thanks Dexcon, this is what I was looking for! I appreciate the help!