Abdul Hannan

Abdul Hannan is a video editor who works primarily in CapCut Desktop, editing short-form content for music, stories and faceless Youtube channels. He started editlogic.io to document the fixes and workflows he uses in his own projects — the kind of practical, tested solutions that come from actually hitting these problems, not just reading the documentation.

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How to Stop CapCut Adding a Black Border to My YouTube Videos

Black borders appear when your export resolution or aspect ratio doesn’t match your timeline settings. CapCut fills the gap with black bars — top and bottom for letterboxing, left and right for pillarboxing — rather than cropping or stretching your footage. The fix is almost always a mismatch between your project settings, your clip aspect