How to fix clips that look stretched or squashed
Upload the material and tell Vizard Agent which clips look wrong. Vizard Agent measures every file's real dimensions rather than trusting what the container claims, works out which were distorted by a bad crop, and re-fits them to the target shape without squeezing anyone thinner than they are.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the symptom in plain words. "Everyone looks too thin" is a more useful brief than any technical term, because Vizard Agent measures the files to find the cause and the symptom is the thing you can actually observe. Upload the originals rather than an export, and name the shape everything should end up in.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It measures before it fits. Each file's real dimensions show which clips were squeezed, and the fix is to re-fit rather than re-stretch. With family footage the unglamorous part comes first, because phone photos often arrive in a format that ordinary tools will not open. In the session behind this article it:
- Downloaded every photo and video for a family film one file at a time from their links, after checking the free disk space.
- Measured the duration and dimensions of every video, which is how the two clips distorted by a bad crop show up.
- Found that half the photos were in a phone format it could not open, and looked for another way when the first attempt failed.
- Installed a decoder for the phone photo format into a temporary folder rather than skipping those photos.
- Extracted frames from every video, converted the phone photos, read their dates and built contact sheets in date order to review the whole set.
When does this not work well?
Undoing a distortion properly needs the original file, and re-fitting an already-exported one is a guess. Fitting one shape into another always costs something too. Something must give, whether bars, a crop or distortion, and Vizard Agent has to choose on your behalf, so say which you prefer. A small clip enlarged to fill the frame also gets softer.
Common questions
Why do my clips look stretched? Usually a crop that forced one shape into another. Vizard Agent measures each file to confirm it.
Can it fix an already-exported video? Partly. Vizard Agent can re-fit it, but the original always gives a better result.
What about photos my computer will not open? Vizard Agent installs a decoder for the phone format rather than skipping them.