1 Reply Latest reply: Sep 11, 2014 10:46 AM by mark20044 RSS

    Captivate videos - aspect ratio and skin

    KeithKosh
    KeithKosh Sep 11, 2014 9:57 AM

      1. When I import video into captivate, it correctly keeps the same width and height of the source video IF I do not use the haloSkin. If I use the haloSkin (which is always visible and creates a frame around the video), the video itself shrinks to put the skin around it, but it also loses its aspect ratio and becomes squished vertically. There's no easy way to adjust the video so it uses the proper aspect ratio or even width and height without manually eyeballing it. Am I missing something?

       

      2. Are the video skins customizable? If I wanted to do something simple like change the haloSkin to be colored black instead of white, is that possible?

       

      Thanks,

      Keith

        • 1. Re: Captivate videos - aspect ratio and skin
          mark20044 Community Member
          mark20044 Sep 11, 2014 10:46 AM (in response to KeithKosh)

          1) The haloSkin subtracts 20 px from the width and 50 px from the height of event videos, which is not only counter-intuitive but obnoxious because it does indeed mess up the aspect ratio of your video as you noted. So a 640x480 video object with the skin applied has a video area of 620x430. Fortunately the 20 and 50 are absolute, and don't change with the size of the video object. This means that you can just add 20 to the width and 50 to the height of the video object to get your video back to the correct size. (a video object with dimensions 660x530 and the haloSkin applied has a video area of 640x480)

           

          2) I'm unaware of any way to edit the skins.