Adjusting the video so that it can fit the Youtube screen?

[David Eaks]

Leave your video in it’s original size. Don’t change the aspect ratio.

If you add “letter boxing” (black bars on top and bottom) to 16:9 video (to make the video fit on a 4:3 display) then upload it to YouTube, YouTube will add “pillar boxes” (black bars on the sides) to make your video (with the letter boxing you added) fit in it’s wide screen player. So, don’t add letter-boxing to wide screen video that is destined for YouTube.

YouTube help, Optimizing your video upload. See “aspect ratio” section-

https://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=132460

[John Rofrano]

[Natasha Wolfe] “I’m assuming you go to Project, Properties, and then Video… only there are a bunch of different possible formats. I’m not sure which one will fit Youtube’s widescreen screen.”

What is the resolution of your video?

If it’s SD widescreen use: NTSC DV Widescreen (720×480, 29.970 fps).
If it’s HD widescreen use: HDV 720-30p (1280×720, 29.970 fps).

Also what render template are you using?

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Natasha Wolfe]

My video is originally widescreen as it is, which makes the bars around it on Youtube even worse because it’s so small.

My render template is set to 6 Mbps HD 720-30 p Video… I wasn’t sure what else to set it to…

I tried both SD and HD and neither one works on Youtube.

[John Rofrano]

Is your video 1280×720? What are you project settings?

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Natasha Wolfe]

The original video is 2.35:1 (Widescreen).

[John Rofrano]

[Natasha Wolfe] “The original video is 2.35:1 (Widescreen).”

What are you project settings?

Width: ?
Height: ?
Pixel Aspect Ratio: ?
Frame Rate: ?

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Aleksey Tarasov]

Youtube requires 16:9, so you should crop your clips in Pan/Crop window.
Try Video4YouTube plug-in (free).
It can automatically render and upload your project to Youtube.

Before using it, you should select the project template that corresponds to your source media. Plug-in determines the relevant rendering parameters (resolution, frame rate etc.) based on the project settings. To do this, go to File > Properties. Click the Match Media Settings button (with the folder icon) in the upper-right corner of the Project Properties window. Navigate to one of your source video files and click Open. This selects the appropriate template for you.

Then go to Tools > Extensions > Video4Youtube

Best regards.

[Natasha Wolfe]

I downloaded it, but when I look in Tools, I don’t see Extensions…I correctly saved the plug-in to a folder on my computer, and opened it up from there to download it. It said that it was finished, and that if I opened up Sony Vegas, it would be there under Tools>Extensions but I don’t see it…help!

[Mike Kujbida]

After you download the file (Video4YouTube_Setup_1.0.exe, correct?), you have to double-click it and follow the prompts to install it.
Then it will show up where it’s supposed to.

[Natasha Wolfe]

I have already done that. It said that it was now installed, and that I could find it under Tools>Extensions… I can’t even find Extensions, let alone Video4Youtube! It sounds like a great application to have… I just desperately wish that it would work!