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Youtube 16:9
I’m trying to upload a clip exported from Premiere onto youtube. It’s set to 720 x 576 and looks ok when viewed in Media Player. When I add it to youtube, it’s squeezed into 4:3. How do I avoid this?
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I would suspect that is because the aspect ratio of your project is actually much closer to 4:3 than 16:9.
720 x 576 is 4:3.2 … put in terms of 16:9 it is 16:12.8. So YouTube is probably guessing that your project most closely resembles a 4:3 project.
Neil Myers
Connect Public Relations
CS4 Master Suite, 3DS -
You’re right Neil. When dealing with SD video, widescreen is called “anamorphic”, meaning the pixels are stretched, but resolution is the same for 4:3 or 16:9.
I work with NTSC, so 720×480 widescreen has a 1.2 pixel aspect ratio. When exporting 16:9 for web viewing, I set export to square pixels (1.0 PAR) and dimensions to 864×480. The problem with web playback is that it always expects square pixels, so if your video source used rectangular pixels, the player doesn’t know this and assumes square pixels for playback.
864×480 is roughly 16:9, and I believe the PAL equivalent would be 1024×576.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor
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