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Possible to export square videos in Elements 15?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
January 30, 2017
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I'm overwhelmed by Premiere Pro so I just downloaded the trial of Elements. In Elements 15, I'm wondering if it's now possible to export a 1080x1080 square video (for use on Facebook or Instagram)? I'd like the video to actually be cropped square, with no letterboxing or black bars on it.

Searching the forums, I have seen mixed answers on previous versions of Elements.

Thanks for your help!

Jess

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Mohammad Tahseen

Adobe Employee

None of presets offered in PRE has square dimensions. PRE provides export presets based on the common type of devices where media is played.

However, if you want to export in square dimensions you can do so by going to Custom tab and there manually setting the square dimension as depicted in the screenshot.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

This is rather a poor solution.

You cannot crop the image on export. You are stuck with two rather wide black bars on top and bottom

Would be nice if one could make custom project settings and export as such.

B

Bill Sprague

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ann+Bens wrote
Would be nice if one could make custom project settings and export as such.

You can. I did it once a couple years ago following a "recipe" I found on this forum. I googled for "custom project settings premiere elements" and found one version. Essentially the project presets are text files that can be edited.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/480309

The version I think I remember following was similar and provided by the once prolific ATR.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

You cannot crop on export in Elements like you can do in Pro.

You need to have a square project setting to force Elements to export as such.

How do you make a square video for Facebook

But you have seen this already.

MakeAndDoCrewAuthor

Participant

Thank you!

So this is a preset I could create to use sometimes and then still easily export 16:9 videos the rest of the time, correct?

To create that preset are the steps any different on a Mac or it is essentially the same process?

Thanks so much for being a light in the video editing fog.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

No this is a custom made project preset for a square frame which also will be export as a square.

If you want 16:9 you will have to use a 16:9 project setting that comes with the program

Have no idea how to make the custom preset work on a mac.

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