Frame size

When importing videos from an iPhone, the image is only in the centre third of the screen with a large black area on the right and left of the image. Is there a way to adjust the image so that it takes up the whole screen thus illuminating the black on the left and right of the image?

[Peter Chamberlain]

Are you referring to DaVinci Resolve use?

What about defining a timeline with the right size?

It sounds to me like you're trying to import a video shot in portrait orientation into a project with landscape orientation. If you want the result of your project to also be in portrait mode then you need to configure that in your project settings when you first create the project. But if you really want the result to be in landscape mode then you have two choices:

- you can zoom in the footage so that its width fills the width of the project frame. This will cut large portions off the top and bottom of the footage.

- you can leave the footage as is but place it in front of a background that's either a static image or is the zoomed-in version described above. This will fill the frame with *something*, but the actual interesting stuff will still only fill a small portion of the landscape mode screen. This is the hazard of using footage that's in the wrong orientation for your project.

Are you referring to DaVinci Resolve use?

Yes, I am referring to DaVinci Resolve.

I will try the zooming idea and see how that works. I looked at the setting preferences and don't see place to select "portrait" orientation or "landscape orientation". Where do you find that?

Try Custom and type.