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So output blinking or letter boxes are used

so that we can change the aspect ratio of our video.

We're not actually like stretching the video or anything like that.

We're really just putting an overlay on top of our video

to hide a little bit of the top and bottom of our image,

or maybe even the sides, depending on what you're trying to do here.

We're basically

just adding black bars to our image to change the look and feel of our video.

This is something I do all the time, and you can see that

I've actually used letter boxes in my best John clips 2019 as well as Hey Tim.

So the way that I used to go about letterboxing was

I would have to actually import external pages.

So I'd have to like download something from the internet like this,

put it over top of my timeline.

And this works, but it is just an extra step.

So da Vinci has output blinking or letterboxing a little bit

more figured out.

All you need to do is go up here to timeline, head down to output blanking

and then you can choose what aspect ratio you want.

A lot of the time I'll be working in 2.4 right here

and that gives me a bit of a bigger black bar on the top and bottom.

And I really like the way this looks.

It makes it feel a bit more cinematic

and it also gives me more room to play around with my images position.

So if I move the Y position here, I can push it even further up

because I can take it all the way up to where that output blinking ends.

Whereas normally I'd be limited to the bottom of the frame here,

but now I can push my image all the way up to this area right here.

So not only does output blanking make my image look more cinematic,

it also gives me more flexibility to move my image around within that space.