Kristian Widjaja's Blog » YouTube http://kristianwidjaja.com/blog Thoughts and writings by Kristian Widjaja Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:31:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 How to fix aspect ratios on YouTube http://kristianwidjaja.com/blog/2009/05/how-to-fix-aspect-ratios-on-youtube/ http://kristianwidjaja.com/blog/2009/05/how-to-fix-aspect-ratios-on-youtube/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 09:08:25 +0000 Kristian http://kristianwidjaja.com/blog/?p=159 Today I have discovered a cool feature in YouTube that allows you to fix aspect ratios of uploaded videos without having to re-upload the video. You can enter “yt:” formatting tags in the YouTube tag field of any video. With these “yt:” formatting tags, you can remove black borders, fix incorrect aspect ratios, and even default the YouTube quality to HQ.
The commands used for these respectively are:

yt:crop=16:9
yt:stretch=16:9
yt:stretch=4:3
yt:quality=high

See the following video for examples on how these work.

I used this technique on Eric and Cynthia’s wedding video, which originally had an incorrect 4:3 aspect ratio, and now the video plays back correctly at 16:9.

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