Video fit and zoom

What it does

Video fit sets how the picture fills the window. Zoom magnifies part of the picture.

How to use it

Video fit

Press A to step through the options, or right-click → Video fit and pick one:

• Fit (whole picture): the whole picture, with black bars if the shape does not match the window.
• Fill (crop to window): fills the window and crops the edges.
• Stretch (ignore aspect): fills the window and stretches the picture.
• Force 16:9 and Force 4:3: for a video that plays squashed or stretched because the file has the wrong shape recorded in it.

Zoom

• Ctrl + mouse wheel zooms in and out at the pointer.
• Ctrl + and Ctrl − zoom in and out. Ctrl+0 resets to 100%.
• While zoomed in, drag the picture to move around it.

The Video fit menu shows the current zoom and has the same zoom commands.

Troubleshooting

• Zoom magnifies the picture on screen. It does not add detail that the video does not have.
• Dragging changes video instead of moving the picture: you are at 100%. Zoom in first.

Related

• Keyboard shortcuts
• Save a frame