Selected Aspect Ratio Not Exporting

Peaceful-Pixel wrote on 7/4/2025, 12:03 PM

Hello, I am a little new with this program and I thought I had a good understand until I realized my videos aren't exporting the selected frame rates and "Video Settings" that I select at the starting of a new project. All my videos that I import are originally 120fps and 1920 x 1080. (Yes I know I'm selecting 1080 x 1920 in the sample screen shots).

I am using version 24.0.1.239 on a brand newly built computer with Windows 11 so I am sure its nothing to do with my components or OS. I also have used other video editing software and I do not get the same issue.

Here are some screen shots of the selected settings along with the exported file details:

When I open a new project, i select the desired settings I want my video (Movie) to have.

I will then go to File>Settings>Movie... (E) and confirm the settings have been applied to the "Movie"

I also see here below, that the 9:16 aspect ratio is applied to the preview window.

Now when I go to export, I notice I don't have any options to select for the quality like I see most people have. (I used to have this option along time ago).

And Finally, when I go to Properties>Details on ANY of my exported video, It shows the frame width & height that I DID NOT select in the settings. Frame Width 720 & Height 480 with 29.97 frames/second. It always defaults to this no matter which video I edit and which settings I choose.

Please help, I have read the basics in the user manual and I don't know what I am doing wrong :(

Comments

browj2 wrote on 7/4/2025, 1:15 PM

@Peaceful-Pixel

Hi,

Top menu, File, Export Movie, Video as MPEG-4, and the settings should match your Movie settings. Click on the check box beside Display all, open the dropdown and you have more choices. You may now do whatever you want/need with that.

John CB

Peaceful-Pixel wrote on 7/4/2025, 1:43 PM

@Peaceful-Pixel

Hi,

Top menu, File, Export Movie, Video as MPEG-4, and the settings should match your Movie settings. Click on the check box beside Display all, open the dropdown and you have more choices. You may now do whatever you want/need with that.

John CB

This worked! Thank you so much!

-However I have 1 more question, why cant I select for more than 60 fps? I type in the option for 120 and it doesn't change the value. Also the drop down menu only shows 60 being the max.

CubeAce wrote on 7/4/2025, 3:53 PM

@Peaceful-Pixel

Hi.

You may need to use either HEVC or AV1 to allow you to export at higher frame rates.

Ray.

Peaceful-Pixel wrote on 7/4/2025, 6:39 PM

@Peaceful-Pixel

Hi.

You may need to use either HEVC or AV1 to allow you to export at higher frame rates.

Ray.

Ok I tried AV1 and that worked. HEVC wouldn't let me use 120fps. Thank you!!

Can-Dive wrote on 7/4/2025, 7:09 PM

Hi @Peaceful-Pixel

Is there any particular reason why you want to export at such a high frame rate? Typically, high frame rates such as 120 are shot with the intention of creating slow motion video with smooth playback. So, if you export your video at 30 fps, you potentially can slow down your video 4 times (120/30) with smooth playback because you have enough frames. The 120 frames are spread across 4 seconds with 30 frames per second creating slow motion. But if you shoot at 30 fps and try to slow down the video 4 times, each second now has only 7.5 frames (30/4) which results in choppy playback unless some form of interpolation is used. Even that may not eliminate the stutter completely. It's better to have more frames than to rely on interpolation.

For example, when I shot underwater video, I set my frame rate at 60 fps but export at 30 fps. Fish can move pretty fast so the extra frames allow me to slow down their movement while retaining smooth playback.

Peaceful-Pixel wrote on 7/4/2025, 11:47 PM

Hi @Peaceful-Pixel

Is there any particular reason why you want to export at such a high frame rate? Typically, high frame rates such as 120 are shot with the intention of creating slow motion video with smooth playback. So, if you export your video at 30 fps, you potentially can slow down your video 4 times (120/30) with smooth playback because you have enough frames. The 120 frames are spread across 4 seconds with 30 frames per second creating slow motion. But if you shoot at 30 fps and try to slow down the video 4 times, each second now has only 7.5 frames (30/4) which results in choppy playback unless some form of interpolation is used. Even that may not eliminate the stutter completely. It's better to have more frames than to rely on interpolation.

For example, when I shot underwater video, I set my frame rate at 60 fps but export at 30 fps. Fish can move pretty fast so the extra frames allow me to slow down their movement while retaining smooth playback.

I am used to playing high intensity, fast paced games and some generate all the way up to 200 fps. I have noticed a huge difference in going from 60 FPS to 120 and especially 160 with my new gaming system. I just figured that my videos that I record would come out with allot better quality and have less stutter in them. But I could be wrong. With the videos that I accidentally exported with 30 FPS I can definitely tell they aren't as good as the original recording. But that is interesting that you mention high FPS with slow motion playbacks, I have never thought of that, that's cool and makes allot of sense now that you mention it!

CubeAce wrote on 7/5/2025, 1:06 AM

@Peaceful-Pixel

There are many historical reasons for the few mainstream frame rates used for film and video.

This short video from Angus Davies explains the history of its progression quite well.

He doesn't go into the financial or audio benefits from a quality and cost aspect from an industry point of view but the basics are there.

For a long time it was thought that humans could not see an appreciable difference in motion beyond 50fps but recent research into the performance of seasoned gamers using better quality and faster refresh rate monitors benefited from the frame rates in the accuracy of their game play.

Whether or not that would translate into watching a replay of gameplay or not I am not certain but a lot of the appreciable quality for a third party watching would also depend on how it could be viewed at their end. To that extent, going beyond 60 fps for YouTube would be a waste of effort as that is the maximum frame rate playback speed for YouTube.

The reason I said to try a different Codec / wrapper is because of the age of MP4 and it has limitations, and that I know HEVC and AV1 as well as the unsupported export for Pro Res in Magix are capable.

Ray.