With Final Cut Pro, I cannot get my video to go to full screen. I have some videos that are in the portrait mode and some in the landscape mode. The landscape mode, there is a black bar on the top and bottom and I cannot get the video to go to full screen even when I "transform" the video. It just zooms in and keeps the black bars there. How do I get rid of this?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2
What do you want the image to do? The spatial conform for the clips defaults to Fit. So it fitted the horizontal video into the vertical frame. If you change the spatial conform to Fill it will fill the screen, showing the central portion of the clip.
If you are using a lot of horizontal video and want to output vertical video, you should read up on using Smart Conform to change a project from a standard video format to a social media format
What do you want the image to do? The spatial conform for the clips defaults to Fit. So it fitted the horizontal video into the vertical frame. If you change the spatial conform to Fill it will fill the screen, showing the central portion of the clip.
If you are using a lot of horizontal video and want to output vertical video, you should read up on using Smart Conform to change a project from a standard video format to a social media format
A portrait video will never fill the screen exactly. Most landscape videos won’t either. This has nothing to do with FCP. It’s basic geometry.
A Mac laptop screen usually is in a 16:10 proportion, whereas the usual 1080 or 4K video sizes are in a 16:9 proportion. So if you put, say, a 4K video in full screen it will fill the width of your screen but will leave small black areas on top and bottom. If you play it full screen in a typical 4K or 1080 tv or monitor, it WILL fill the screen completely.
So a couple things:
1) when I imported it, I did not choose the 1080p as described
2) I duplicated the project and did "horizontal" and 1080p as a duplicate and it fixed the problem as described.
3) I am extremely new (clearly) to this program and video editing so thank you for your patience
EDIT: looking back at your first screenshot, it shows a horizontal clip in a vertical project. You can’t fill the frame without cutting out a lot of the content.
What are the dimensions of the video and of the project? Post screenshots if possible.
If you are setting Spatial Conform to Fill and part of the image is cut off it means that the proportions of your media and the project do not match.
Please post a screenshot of your project properties. What you posted above is not 1080p. It looks like it's 1920p. 1080x1920. Vertical video. 1920x1080 is horizontal video, 1080p.
I want the image to be full frame from my GoPro camera. When I do "fill" it fills the screen vertically but not horizontally and cuts out a ton of the video.
I did this in 1080p and still no success as to what you are saying. I uploaded it to YouTube and still have the same image as I am seeing on FCP.
Final Cut Pro - Cannot get video to full screen
