{
 "slug": "ratio-4-3",
 "name": "4:3 (1.33 and Academy 1.37)",
 "category": "ratio",
 "group": "Cinema",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The old television and early film frame: nostalgic, intimate, boxed in.",
 "use_when": "Retro looks, archive pastiche, portraits that fill the height.",
 "phrase": "4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Most video models do not generate 4:3; generate wider and crop, or set it in the edit with pillarbox bars.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this aspect ratio (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this aspect ratio (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "ratio-1-1",
  "vhs-tape",
  "film-16mm"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its ratio filter)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/ratio/ratio-4-3",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/ratio/ratio-4-3.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. 4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. 4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: 4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. 4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: 4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: 4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. 4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height.",
  "veo-3.1": "4:3 frame, nearly square, the subject filling the height. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}