Customising videos

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  terrytownshend · Member · Dec 28, 2014 at 12:07 pm

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  Can I customise the formatting of ‘portrait style’ videos? The default display of presenting a portrait style video within the ‘landscape style’ does not look very good.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Dec 29, 2014 at 8:36 pm

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  Hi Terry,

  You wouldn’t be able to customize videos after it has been uploaded, but what you can do is edit the video before hand using video editing software to display ‘portrait style’ and then upload that. It depends on how the video was filmed as well. As seen here, it defaults to portrait style:

  http://manduand.me/2014/06/29/hi-hi-hi/

  If you can get it the way you want on Vimeo or Youtube, you can directly embed from there as seen here:

  Vimeo

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

  Cheers!

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  terrytownshend · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 2:42 am

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  Hi Grace,
  Thank you. I clicked your link and I would love to have my ‘portrait-style’ video (of an owl, not a dog :) ) in a similar format and size. How did you do that? By using Videopress? Or by embedding a video from another player?
  Thank you again, Terry

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 5:49 pm

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  The video was filmed in this size and uploaded via VideoPress. VideoPress just uploaded the video. So please format the video beforehand and upload that.

  Thanks!

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  terrytownshend · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 1:42 am

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  Thank you again, Grace. Very helpful.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 6:14 pm

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  You’re very welcome.