Auto Aspect Ratio Variant

How to make your creative templates available for generating aspect ratio variant automatically.

‘Generate Aspect Ratio Variant’ is feature that lets Shakr users automatically create a new video variation of their original video, in another aspect ratio. This is great for social and performance teams that advertise and post on multiple social media channels, such as Facebook and Instagram feeds, where square aspect ratio is preferred, and Instagram/Facebook/Snapchat stories, where vertical aspect ratios are preferred.

To enable this feature for you creative templates, you should create a new variation of your creative templates in another aspect ratio. The Shakr system will automatically understand that creative template’s variations in different aspect ratios is able to be automatically generated by the user.

To make sure that this works for your team, the naming and the number of editable layers should be identical across the different aspect ratio templates. Aligning the name and number of layers is recommended if you are planning to create multiple variations.

This is how your team members will experience this feature on the Shakr platform:

You can see the button ‘Aspect Ratio Variants’ when you preview your video in Shakr Studio.
The user can select & automatically generate video with different Aspect Ratio that is embedded in the creative template!
Updated on February 23, 2022

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