Pinnacle & You Tube

[mad mark]

I'm trying to upload some videos to You tube that I have taken with my Sony camcorder and edited with Pinnacle Studio.

My problem is, although I filmed them in wide screen and edited them that way, (they even play back on my pc in windows media player in the wide format) But whenever I upload them to YouTube for some reason they play back in the square format, and make all the footage look really tall, which is so frustrating.

Any one got any ideas or suggestions?? or has anyone else had this problem?

[ThePassenger]

Crop it yourself in pinacle so it's the right aspect ratio. Or add black bars top n' bottom.

YouTube is pretty dumb and as far as I can tell will just blanket transcode to it's specific resolution.

[mad mark]

But its already set in pinnacle to play widescreen, it plays in media player wide.
I cant understand it??
Not sure how you add black bars in pinnacle?
might try uploading the same clip to putfile.

[ThePassenger]

mad mark said:

But its already set in pinnacle to play widescreen, it plays in media player wide.
I cant understand it??
Not sure how you add black bars in pinnacle?
might try uploading the same clip to putfile.

I have no idea how Pinnacle works, sorry. But on the few transcoders I use there are options to add/remove black bars from the top kind of a "simulate widescreen" thing. If this is what you've already got then can pinnacle do 'pan & scan' to reduce the video to 4:3 (with you telling it what to chop & where)?