Blurred or black bars around landscape footage
What happens on TikTok depends on the details of this rule.
How serious: MinorTikTokLow quality and video format
About to post? A full check of your video looks for this in what's shown and the video's size, shape and length, with a plain fix.
Check a video freeWhat triggers it
Landscape footage posted in a vertical frame with blurred or black bars, or text placed in the bars.
What TikTok says
“Blurry bars shrink your subject into a small box. Viewers can't see what you're doing, so they keep scrolling — and the bars are the giveaway that the video came from another app.”
How to fix it
Crop into the subject with tracking, or post a true horizontal video; for gaming, podcasts or reactions use a full split screen.
Good to know
Horizontal or vertical video that fills the screen is fine.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown and the video's size, shape and length. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: not for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: not for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
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