Spent 6 months making butter robot memes with the wrong aspect ratio

I was making memes for like 6 straight months and kept wondering why they looked squished on my phone. Thought it was just reddit being weird. Then my buddy sent me one of his edits and it looked crisp on my screen while mine looked like garbage. Turns out I was exporting at 4:3 instead of 16:9 the whole time. Felt like a total idiot. Anyone else have a dumb editing mistake that took way too long to figure out?

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fionarodriguez14d ago

Spent 6 months making butter robot memes with the wrong aspect ratio" bro that is painful but also kinda funny. I feel your pain though because I did something similar with video editing once. I was rendering all my clips at 720p for like a year before I realized my phone screen was actually 1080p and the quality was just getting crushed every time. It made everything look soft and blurry but I thought it was just compression from uploading. When I finally switched to the right resolution it was like a whole new world opened up. Six months is rough but at least you figured it out eventually.

wyatt_chen8614d ago

720p is actually 1280x720 which is 16:9 though, so that's a resolution problem not an aspect ratio thing - unless you were cropping it weird. But yeah, getting the settings wrong and not noticing for months is the kind of pain every editor goes through at least once.