How Can I Resize a Video

Hi Michael,

If you go into the "Text" editor, you should see the video shortcode which should have width and height attributes: http://www.screencast.com/t/wuhbqS4C73Ub

You should be able to adjust those - just be sure to keep the same aspect ratio.

Hi Tom,

This is helpful!

But I'm having a different problem with alignment. Shrinking the video itself works fine, but it seems there's a greater "frame or shell" that remains in the footprint of the original size. So when I do shrink it down, the video moves over to the left side, getting smaller, but I can't use any of the space on the right because the original frame is still taking up all the space.

I ideally want to put a video along side text or content.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you!
Michael

Hi Michael,

You would have to put them in columns using a plugin like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/lightweight-grid-columns/

You also might want to make the video responsive: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/responsive-videos/

Let me know if you need more info :)

Hi Tom, thanks for the info about the plugin!

However, I'm not actually embedding the videos from Youtube, rather I'm adding them directly from the media library. Does that make a difference with what you've recommended? Or would you say I'm better off embedding the videos via Youtube?

Thanks again,
Michael

It shouldn't make a difference as long as the code for the video is inside a column.

I do suggest YouTube, Vimeo etc.. over self hosted videos as they can take up a lot of bandwidth.

OK great, just one question... do I add all that code for embedded responsive videos directly to the content or put into the CSS fields?

as if we prepare the video first and then add a tag/link to the content?

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/responsive-videos/

Thanks,
Michael

The CSS should be added like this: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

Then the HTML (<div>) should wrap around your video iframe.