Problem
A horizontal end card lists three external destinations, but the vertical crop hides the platform-specific icons and leaves ambiguous instructions.
Solution
Root Cause / Diagnostic:
Center-cropping or 9:16 scaling a 16:9 horizontal outro sequence without repositioning elements clips peripheral graphics and text off-screen. Viewers are left seeing partial destination logos, severed arrows, and truncated web addresses. This occurs when automated batch cropping tools do not account for bounding-box shifts and mobile vertical safe zones.
Actionable Fix:
1. Establish a dedicated 1080x1920 vertical end-screen graphic template with interactive elements constrained inside the 800x1200 central safe zone.
2. Stack social destination icons vertically along the central axis with minimum 48pt typography and distinct visual padding.
3. Overlay mobile app interface templates (incorporating right-side interaction icons and bottom caption fields) in editing monitors to verify complete icon visibility.
Pro Tip:
Never re-crop a 16:9 end card for vertical video; build a modular vertical-native end card with single-destination focus, as multi-destination menus dilute click-through conversion rates by over 50%.
Center-cropping or 9:16 scaling a 16:9 horizontal outro sequence without repositioning elements clips peripheral graphics and text off-screen. Viewers are left seeing partial destination logos, severed arrows, and truncated web addresses. This occurs when automated batch cropping tools do not account for bounding-box shifts and mobile vertical safe zones.
Actionable Fix:
1. Establish a dedicated 1080x1920 vertical end-screen graphic template with interactive elements constrained inside the 800x1200 central safe zone.
2. Stack social destination icons vertically along the central axis with minimum 48pt typography and distinct visual padding.
3. Overlay mobile app interface templates (incorporating right-side interaction icons and bottom caption fields) in editing monitors to verify complete icon visibility.
Pro Tip:
Never re-crop a 16:9 end card for vertical video; build a modular vertical-native end card with single-destination focus, as multi-destination menus dilute click-through conversion rates by over 50%.