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Resize your video
Why
I am using the platform Dlvr.it to schedule some posts on the social media channels. I was just preparing the short video to be posted on LinkedIn for 2022 - to say Happy New Year! The video was just uploading when the platform showed an error to me saying Video dimensions must be smaller than 1280x1024.
Important: Dlvr.it does not support posting videos on LinkedIn with their free account. I do not know whether the paid one allows for this either.
How
I use Ubuntu - a Linux distribution - as my operating system. This gives me the possibility to do a lot of crazy things super quickly and easily - while using the terminal. It looks like this:
This should not scare you. If you are using Ubuntu, I can help you resize your videos in 2 siple steps!
What I did - step by step
Step 1: Find the original dimensions of the video
sudo apt install ffmpeg # installed the ffmpeg library, which allows me to use ffprobe
# FIND VIDEO DIMENSIONS
ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width,height -of csv=s=x:p=0 MY_VIDEO.mp4
>> 4072x2036
Okay, so my original video’s dimension are 4072
pixels by 2036
pixels.
Step 2: Discover the new dimensions and resize
The Dlvr.it error was telling me Video dimensions must be smaller than 1280x1024.
So I need to jump down from 4072
pixels to 1280
. Okay, that’s easy. Secondly, I need to see what 2036
pixels needs to be replaced with.
I divide 4072
by 1280
. The result is 3,18125
. So now I simply divide 2036
by that number, 3,18125
- and get 640
pixels.
My new video dimensions are 1280
pixels by 640
pixels. Now let’s resize it:
ffmpeg -i MY_VIDEO.mp4 -vf scale=1280:640 MY_VIDEO_resized.mp4
This is it.
Further Reading
This is the blog post which I read to find my solution.
Credits
Cover Image Credit: Wahid Khene on Unsplash
Terminal Image Credit: Gabriel Heinzer on Unsplash
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