Vertical Overlays for TikTok Live: What's Different
A 16:9 overlay squashed into 9:16 looks broken. Here's how vertical layouts actually work.
TikTok Live is 1080×1920 (9:16). A horizontal overlay scaled into that frame leaves black bars or crops your art in half, so vertical needs its own layout — not a resize.
The UI eats your edges
TikTok stacks comments, gifts and buttons over the bottom third and the right side. Anything you place there gets covered. Keep your frame and any text in the upper-middle area.
Design top-down, not left-right
In vertical, elements stack: your camera near the top, content in the middle, decoration at the very bottom edge. Side-by-side layouts from a horizontal pack don't translate.
Set OBS to vertical
In Settings → Video, set both Base and Output resolution to 1080×1920 before you position anything. Laying out in 16:9 and switching afterwards moves everything.
Get a pack made for it
We ship dedicated TikTok packs in native 9:16 rather than cropped horizontals — browse the shop and look for the TikTok sets.
Made for vertical
TikTok packs designed at 1080×1920 — nothing cropped, nothing hidden behind the UI.
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