Letterboxing video

1. What is letterboxing in video?
2. What letterboxing meaning?
3. Is letterboxing still a thing?
4. What is video letterbox size?

What is letterboxing in video?

The black areas along the top and bottom of a video, also known as letterboxing, have become synonymous with the signature look and feel of big-screen movies viewed at home. Letterboxing occurs when films shot in a wide aspect ratio get resized to fit standard-width video players.

What letterboxing meaning?

Definition of 'letterboxing'

1. a method of formatting film that enables all of a wide-screen film to be transmitted on a television screen, resulting in a blank strip of screen above and below the picture.

Is letterboxing still a thing?

Until the 1970s there were no more than a dozen such sites around the moor, usually in the most inaccessible locations. Increasingly, however, letterboxes have been located in relatively accessible sites and today there are thousands of letterboxes, many within easy walking distance of the road.

What is video letterbox size?

Simply put, letterboxes are small bars that you can apply to your footage to give them an irregular aspect ratio, while still retaining their 16:9 size. Letterboxes can crop footage shot in 16:9 to a more cinematic 2.35:1.