# 1.85:1 flat widescreen

Frame / Aspect ratio / Cinema. Checked 2026-11-13.

The everyday cinema frame: a touch wider than television, calm and filmic.

- Use when: Brand films that should feel like cinema without the epic of scope.
- Phrase: 1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/ratio/ratio-1-85
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/ratio/ratio-1-85.json

## Watch out

- Generate 16:9 and add the bars in the edit; asking a model for 1.85 rarely changes the frame. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. 1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. 1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: 1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. 1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: 1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: 1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. 1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
1.85:1 frame, thin black bars at top and bottom of a 16:9 video. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this aspect ratio (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this aspect ratio (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- 16:9 landscape: https://directorchair.ai/ratio/ratio-16-9
- 21:9 ultrawide: https://directorchair.ai/ratio/ratio-21-9

## Source

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its ratio filter, which also lists 1.66)

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