Aspect ratio on YouTube widget

Am I correct in understanding that a movie that you post using the YouTube widget has an aspect ratio that is permanently constrained to 4X3? Is there any way to modify the dimensions so they better match an HD letterbox format (16x9)?

These are YouTube's recommendations.....
■ Video Format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 preferred
■ Aspect Ratio: Native aspect ratio without letter-boxing (examples: 4:3, 16:9)
■ Resolution: 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) recommended
■ Audio Format: MP3 or AAC preferred
■ Frames per second: 30
■ Maximum length: 10 minutes (we recommend 2-3 minutes)
■ Maximum file size: 1 GB
If you can't get it work correctly using the YouTube Widget, go to YouTube, copy the code and then paste it into an HTML Snippet on your iWeb page.

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Removing black bars from youtube/altering aspect ratios for youtube

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWgFDVI8Xs4
What is the cure for this? I notice when the vid is in the even library it’s in 4:3 as the source vid from the cam but is converted to 16:9 when moved to the project library. Is there any way to prevent that or convert it back to 4:3? I had thought the crop options in I movie would do the trick, but it does not from what I can tell.

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Is your project 4:3, you set this when you create your project. You can check this by looking at the project properties from the file menu.

Youtube Widget 16:9 aspect available?

I search through the program and couldn't find a way to change the frame to 16:9 aspect...
I can add my videos, but that ugly 4:3 takes up a lot of unused space...
Am I missing something, or is this an enhancement request?

You can change YouTube widget to 16:9 by change its default setting. If you are comfortable with Terminal.app and/or Unix command then try the following:
1) quit iweb
2) launch Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities/ folder
3) copy the following and paste in Terminal window then hit return key:
/usr/bin/defaults write '/Applications/iWeb.app/Contents/Resources/Widgets/YouTube.iwdgt/Info' DefaultWidgetWidth -int 570
note: you will need to log in as admin to make this change.
Alternately, you can use Unix defaults write command to turn off AspectRatioLocked setting, then you won't be locked in 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratios.

Youtube aspect ratios: widescreen and "tallscreen" ??

I'm confused about the aspect ratio of these youtube videos - certain videos appear to be "widescreen" (I'm not an expert at all, so I'm going to use layman's terms) - I can watch the video with black bars at the top and bottom, or lose the sides to have the middle a bit bigger
example: search (on iphone) for "frenchmaidtv" - doubletap a few times to switch views - this appears correct to me
other videos seem to have some sort of "tallscreen" mode where doubletapping adds padding to the left and right and shows extra video on the top and bottom
example: search (on iphone) for "9/11 coincidences part four" - notice how in "widescreen" mode, padding is added to left and right and the top and bottom get expanded
this seems odd to me - what the heck is this?
-w

I'm confused about the aspect ratio of these youtube videos - certain videos appear to be "widescreen" (I'm not an expert at all, so I'm going to use layman's terms) - I can watch the video with black bars at the top and bottom, or lose the sides to have the middle a bit bigger
example: search (on iphone) for "frenchmaidtv" - doubletap a few times to switch views - this appears correct to me
other videos seem to have some sort of "tallscreen" mode where doubletapping adds padding to the left and right and shows extra video on the top and bottom
example: search (on iphone) for "9/11 coincidences part four" - notice how in "widescreen" mode, padding is added to left and right and the top and bottom get expanded
this seems odd to me - what the heck is this?
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Aspect ratio of iPad mirror is not 4:3 when mirrored with Apple TV

Hi Everyone - I have just bought an Apple TV 3 and installed the device yesterday. I am using an LG HDTV and an iPad3. Everything works fine except one thing: When I mirror my iPad in landscape on the TV it appears with a wrong aspect ratio. This means I am NOT seeing a 4:3 picture of my iPad content on the screen, it rather looks like a 1:1 ratio. So the picture is "pressed together" from the left and the right. Any ideas how to solve the problem?
Before you answer - I am not talking about the black bars that appear when you mirror the 4:3 iPad on a 16:9 TV screen. This is not my problem and I know that black bars will appear eventually. I just do not get the proper aspect ratio of the iPad 4:3 on the TV screen - it rather appears as a square on the screen. This is only when I select mirroring - using airplay to see movies, youtube etc work perfectly fine.
Thanks very much for the help.

I have now reset my TV but unfortunately the problem remains. I also do not have the possibility to set the horizontal / vertical stretch of the TV when the input signal is via HDMI - so also no option.
I could actually live with the wrong ratio presentation when mirroring the iPad.
What I find really annoying is that my photos do not scale properly. When I start a slideshow on Aple TV from the iPad, the photos, which have been taken in a 2:3 aspect ratio, do not come up properly on the TV screen. They are pressed together from the sides, so people are too thin (well - some may like it but that is a different topic ).
Apple TV works totally fine with all other applications, ie YouTube videos. These are presented perfectly! This is why I think it has something to do with how photos are sent to Apple TV - this must be different from videos and maybe somewhere there is the reason.
If you have any other ideas I would appreciate your help. Thanks

Cropping aspect ratio changes randomly

Each time I crop a new image, the aspect ratio seems to change randomly. Sometimes it will pop up as "Do Not Constrain." Sometimes it will appear as 4x5. Or 2x3. Etc. You get the idea. I have no idea why it's changing. It's very disruptive to the workflow. Any thoughts on what might be causing this?
I encounter the issue on both my MacBook Pro and my iMac.

Thanks, Stan.
I just posted a draft video on Youtube for a client last night. Not sure if viewing a clip of what I see will help you but I suspect it will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_hzhCeCGR0
If you go to about 4:34 in the clip you'll see it change over to a different aspect ratio.
This sequence was exported directly from PPro CS4 to FLV. The FLV file was uploaded to Youtube.
I'm editing this morning and just came across this same issue again.
I'm amazed that none of my clients have mentioned it yet. Of course, I'm not making Hollywood movies - these are just short videos people send out to college coaches.
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Detail preserving upscale aspect ratio issue

My goal is to take a 720x480 60i DV file (non square pixel) and upscale to 960x720 60p square pixel for YouTube upload.
My workflow seems to work, except I'm not quite getting the correct aspect ratio at the end. I'm getting an extra 5 pixels on the bottom and top of my image so it's being squished by a total of 10 pixels. I have uploaded a screen capture to demonstrate this. In case the image preview doesn't work here's a Flickr URL:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8623/16158021066_e52966ff22_o.jpg
On the left is a simple AE scale, I dragged the DV file into a timeline, and used the scale command to change the pixel resolution to 960x720 so the DV file stretches to fill the 4:3 frame as it should. Remember, I'm trying to get the DV file to square pixel aspect ratio for online viewing. On the right is the result of my workflow below using AE CC and detail preserving upscale. The 5 pixel gray bars are part of the movie file.
Import the DV master into After Effects CC
Right click the file in the project bin, go to Interpret footage, then MainSet Conform frame rate to 59.94, hit okay
Drag this movie to the new composition button
Select the composition in the project bin, hit Command+K to open the comp properties
Set the frame size to 960x720
Set the duraction to double the original
Set pixel aspect ratio to square, hit okay
Select the video layer in the new comp, then go to the Layer menu, select Time, then Time Stretch and enter 200, then hit okay, the number should match the frame duration you just got from doubling the original
Now, add the Detail preserving upscale effect
Click fit width
Export

Thanks for the reply Mylenium. Typically I do separate operations like this using pre-composing but I found it made no difference so I removed that step in my original workflow so save work.
I'm not sure what "crooked HDV/ IMX values" means, can you elaborate?
If you mean my frame size of 960x720 this is the minimum that YouTube will need for a 4:3 video to generate a 60p video. They don't want 4:3 videos encoded in 16:9 wrappers and they have good reasons for this.
I'll say for the sake of simplicity to forget all about the 60p conversion here and focus on the 4:3 non square PAR conversion using the DPU (detail preserving upscale). I was able to accomplish this but it requires me re-scaling the video in After Effects first... to either 640x480 or 720x540 square pixel... but I'm just trying to avoid this additional scaling operation.

CS4 changing aspect ratio, resizing video

Hello,
I've been working on a project at school for some time and am just now getting to the editing factor. My issue is about half way through editing it seems that its changed the aspect ratio from wide screen to a more standard ratio. I have it set to scale to the frame size. Just to clear a few things up they were all captured the same, all the original quicktime files are the same it's just once I import them into premiere that I start having issues. I really appreciate it, thanks

After uploading it to youtube the size gets so small you can hardly see it. My main goal with this thread is to get the video to actually scale to the frame.

Please watch and see if you can tell me how to correct the aspect ratio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shiFprOnbK4
This is an unfinished std. def video hence this issue I ran into which is just a fun video for my youth group kids I teach at my church. I am editing it in final cut pro 7 and if you see at about 35 seconds the aspect ratio changes whatever its doing with the picture there.
I have never ran into this problem before so I don't know if its something I may have selected on the camera accidentally or done wrong in FCP but I shot all the video the same day of course for this event of ours and all the other video is fine an in 16:9 or what was called the "letterbox" option on my Panasonic DVX100B.
Please help me correct it if you know how. Thank you very much in advance.

I can't watch the video as well. Not quite sure what trouble your having
Aspect ratios can be tricky and there are a few spots you can mess them up. First I would check to make sure that your sequence settings are the same aspect ratio as your original footage. I would also make sure your exporting with the correct aspect ratio as well. (If you’re using the quicktime conversion option. Sometimes depending on your settings options like 16:9 are not turned on by default and you need to check them before exporting.)
Also if you can change the aspect ratio in FCP regardless of your sequence's aspect ratio is. Under your distort tab there is a aspect ratio option. +33 will make your footage 4:3 and -33 will make your footage anamorphic. However this will only stretch your footage. This method is only useful for when you can to place 4:3 footage into a 16:9 sequence without it appearing distorted and stretched

Need aspect ratio to match still images

I create slideshows from still images using CS6 that are then put on DVD and uploaded to vimeo. The problem I'm having is that I wind up with letterboxing on the sides (not top/bottom) since the aspect ratio isn't correct
I've looked on google and I can't figure out how to create a custom project that has an aspect ratio that matches the still images instead of trying to force them into video aspect ratios.
Is this possible?
Thanks.

The settings of the project don't matter as much as you might think. The settings of the sequence do. It is easy enough to create a sequence from a photograph and the settings will be perfect. Read this: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3804341#3804341
However...
If you are shooting pictures like I do, they are 3:2. That ratio does not exactly work on a DVD. You can make it work by editing in a 3:2 sequence and then when you are finished you can do any number of things. You can nest your sequence into a 4:3 or 16:9 sequence and you will have choices to make. Do you scale the images down until you see everything but you have black bars, or do you scale them down to fit the sides but that means cutting off the top and bottom.
The problem is that there is no way to publish a video on a DVD with a custom shape that I know of. Someone like Jeff Bellune might show up and provide an answer. He is an expert DVD guy.
I don't know how you could get a DVD to play a 3:2 ratio video, but for YouTube it is a simple matter of using the pictures to create the sequence.
Then all you need to do is export using a 3:2 ratio, like 1620X1080, meaning you might have to unlink height and width. I have to tell you that you can upload a 3:2 video to YouTube but YouTube will play it back in a 16:9 frame amd leave black borders on the sides. I just checked.
You see, video is 16:9 or 4:3. Photos are 3:2 or so. Now, my new camera can shoot 16:9 photos, and some people shoot that way to avoid the problem you have right now.

Aspect ratio inappropriate with final result

hi guys.. we meet again.. i get a problem here.. look at the picture below..
above one is my comp when i make it to the final result below.. how to setting my comp to make it look the same with the final video? the final comp has a widescreen perfectly. but my comp not.. im using AE CS5 10.0.458

You can either turn on Pixel Aspect Ratio correction in the Composition window or change your composition settings to the default NTSC DV Widescreen Square Pixel preset. Your frame rate is wrong for this preset however. If you are going to DVD then you should be either using 29.97 fps for NTSC video, or you should be using the PAL Widescreen Presets. I believe, and so does Wikipedia, that Indonesia is a PAL country until 2018. Your Comp Settings should look like this for NonSquare pixels:
Or this for Square Pixels:
A render from either will go into any program that builds DVD's. A render from the Square Pixel setup will work perfectly on the web for YouTube or Vimeo while a render from the NonSquare comp settings will have problems displaying correctly on a computer monitor or on the web.
Just one more thing. If you are creating artwork for this project in Photoshop or Illustrator then you should use 1050 X 576 pixels for your frame size. That sized image will fit perfectly in either composition.

Exporting small quicktime, can't preserve aspect ratio??

I'm trying to export an HD project with a 960 x 720 pixel aspect ratio that's about 3 minutes long into a QT that's less than 10 meg.. i've done it a few different ways but i can't seem to keep it letterboxed to 16:9 even though i've checked the preserve aspect ratio box in the export with QT conversion dialogue box... sequence settings i haven't changed.. is that where i'm going wrong?? Help! needs to be submitted for festival by tomorrow!!

If you need the final clip to be 4:3 for some reason, such as posting it to YouTube, then you can get the letterbox bars by nesting into a 4:3 sequence in FCP, or adding letterboxing in Compressor.
However, if the clip will play natively as a QT file, iit can be 16:9 without letterboxing, which has many advantages. The dimesnions I use for this most often are 480x270 That should allow you to get your file down to size at good quality.
Hope this helps -
Max Average

Change Pixel Aspect Ratio Once Already Started?

I've been having trouble with my video looking extremely blurry -- I thought it had to do with rendering but it looks the same rendered as it did before rendering. I think I figured out that it has to do with the pixel aspect ratio being too small (or is it frame size, or are those the same thing? It's all very confusing for me!). The final output for this video is YouTube, but it also looks blurry within Premiere (mainly when stretching the Program Monitor so I can see it larger).
I helped on a video a few months ago that looked perfect, everything was really crisp in Premiere (after rendering, that is) and when exported to YT. The pixel aspect ratio was 1920x1080 for this video, and the one I'm working on now is 720x480.
So, can I enhance the pixel aspect ratio of the video I'm working on now? If I'm not able to change the pixel aspect ratio once I've started the project, what would be your advice going forward?
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You need to be sure your sequence setting matches
the frame size and aspect ratio of your source media.
To create a sequence that matches your footage, try this:
Once you have created a properly configured sequence,
you can copy (Ctrl+C) then paste (Ctrl+V) your already edited
clips into the newly created sequence.
Also:
Changing a Sequence to Match a Clip
http://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/changing-a-sequence-to-match-a-clip
Create a sequence
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS3E67AF4C-B2A2-4f04-90B4-F8CCFB74B144.ht ml#WSd79b3ca3b623cac941d41a681247d1f35a4-7fff
What's the best export format or codec?
http://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/whats-the-best-export-format-or-codec

Maintaining aspect ratio

Hey there. So, after exporting my first movie, I had to do a bit of fiddling with the Options to make sure that the movie exported in its true 16:9 aspect ratio. It did, after many tries (though YouTube still doesn't notice this, and has put the video in 4:3, even though its new player size is 16:9). However, when I am exporting frames (using quicktime conversion), they all come out square-ish, though the size still shows 720x576. This is something to do with square or non-square pixels, isn't it? It says the video clips are anamorphic. When I un-check the anamorphic column on a clip, it goes all 4:3. How do I make sure the clips are all fully 16:9, no matter how I export them??

Hi,
when you export using QuickTime conversion (use this option for the web, not to make a DVD), choose a video size of 1024x576, that will make your movie to keep the widescreen aspect. You can also use a different size if you want to save in space, like 640x360 or any values that gives you the same ratio.
When exporting for DVD, use the export to QuickTime movie; in that case, if you have QuickTime pro, you can go and edit the exported file to change its size to be again 1024x576.
In all cases you will keep using the anamorphic flags in FCE, since your source material is anamorphic.
For additional info you can also check here: http://www.fcpbook.com/Video8.html
Regards,
Armando.

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