What is Aspect Ratio?

Well, aspect ratio is simply keeping the height and width of a video (or image) in the correct proportion so it doesn't come out looking wonky.

Here's a video with the INCORRECT aspect ratio:

As you can see, some of the inserted text was chopped off.

WRONG! So, this was because the height and width was just dragged with the wee squares. Rookie move, there Peej! Make it better, right?

Okay, generally aspect ratio comes in a pair of numbers such as:

• 4:3
  
• 3:2
  
• 16:9

The last one indicating 16 inches wide and 9 inches high OR 16 centimeters wide and 9 centimeters high for my European members.

For the math majors, here's the formula for it:

Regardless, as opposed to the messed up aspect ratio above, here's a standard formatted video:

Again, you can do it with HTML code in WordPress IF you know the numbers by memory.

OR

You can use a wee trick I'm about to share! Yea, K.I.S.S. method coming!