Video Resolution & Letterboxing

VRL is a program that is used to determine the correct resolution and letterboxing for your video or movie files. Often, we need to resize a video file to a resolution that is bigger or smaller than the original. The easiest way is to specify this value in percentage (%). VRL uses the number of pixels in a single frame to determine the resized resolution. For example, if your initial video file is 320x240 pixels, this means it has 76800 pixels. Suppose you wanted to make it 100% larger, you wouldn't resize it to 640x480 because that actually has 4 times as many pixels! Instead, you will need a resolution that contains only 153600 pixels. What new horizontal resolution (x) multiplied by the vertical resolution (y) gives you this? VRL does all the complex calculations for you whilst taking into account the aspect ratio (320/240) so your video is not distorted after being resized. It also can take into account codec constraints for both x and y because sometimes, the video codec you plan to use only works with resolutions where the width (x) or height (y) is divisible by a certain constant such as 4 or 16. The program presents you with four possible resolutions to choose from that come closest to your target (earlier specified in %) and also shows you the amount of letterboxing that will be required for each. The simple and very informative graphical interface makes these time consuming calculations much easier. VRL is a perfect addition to your list of essential video editing programs.

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