Problems with YouTube

[Derek Smith]

I'm trying to put some videos on YouTube for my rugby club. I've got the standard to what I find acceptable however, the image is distorted.

If you see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_1uyHIEBd4

you will see that it is compressed in widescreen.

The helpfile on YT consists of Dumb and Dumber.

Can anyone help?

Derek

[Blue Meanie]

You sure the source isn't filmed in 4:3, and you were viewing it in the wrong format when editing?

[Derek Smith]

No. It's widescreen all the way through. I've saved it as an .avi in Studio.

I use commercial based streaming video for 'internal' consumption - we don't want to give away secrets. i assumed I'd sail through YT. All we intend to do on this is paste a link onto the club site so that it is available to the hundreds of thousands of fans our club has.

[StevenJJ]

YouTube screwed me over big time when switching from 4:3 to 16:9. I've found their uploader/processor jobbie can't always tell between square pixels (768 x 576 for 4:3 footage) and rectangular ones (also 768 x 576 but the rectangular pixels take the picture out to 16:9).

If all else fails you can export your footage from your editing software 1024 x 576 (square pixels) which is effectively 16:9 and will display correctly.

[Derek Smith]

StevenJJ said:

YouTube screwed me over big time when switching from 4:3 to 16:9. I've found their uploader/processor jobbie can't always tell between square pixels (768 x 576 for 4:3 footage) and rectangular ones (also 768 x 576 but the rectangular pixels take the picture out to 16:9).

If all else fails you can export your footage from your editing software 1024 x 576 (square pixels) which is effectively 16:9 and will display correctly.

Thanks, Steven. I'll give it a go. After the football though.