What are the best screen dimensions or aspect ratio for rendering a synfig to view on the internet?

I’m wondering how my video will look in a viewer on the internet. When I look at it with the preview player in the synfig app, lower and upper parts of the video are not visible. I’d like to know how it would look in a normal movie or video player. When I made the video, I didn’t know what dimensions to use, so I arbitrarily set it at 2000 pixels width, and 1200 pixels height, for a 5x3 aspect ratio. So, I’m wondering if I need to change the dimensions of the video to fit the players that would be used to view it.
Thank you,
Cliff

Good question, although it would depend on what you want to do, in my case I like to work at 1920x1080, but if it is for social networks, it is better to use a 1000x1000 square format so that it is better visualized on mobile phones, maybe it would be better to look for some format that you like as it looks and you do it like that, as I said, it would depend a lot on the type of project and what you want to transmit to the public.

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Thanks for your answer. What I had in mind was youtube videos.

According to Google,

Recommended resolution & aspect ratios

For the default 16:9 aspect ratio, encode at these resolutions:

  • 2160p: 3840x2160
  • 1440p: 2560x1440
  • 1080p: 1920x1080
  • 720p: 1280x720
  • 480p: 854x480
  • 360p: 640x360
  • 240p: 426x240

That helps a lot. I should have known google would have the answer. Thanks.

Don’t forget that the higher the resolution will be, the more you will need resources on your machine and time to render,
especially with bitmaps and effects/
For example, a “bug” was preventing to render in FullHD (solved now) https://github.com/synfig/synfig/issues/711

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