I tend to do this when I need to remove windowboxing. It drastically lowers the quality though. It's useful for situations where saving in 1280x720 would make the video look generally worse, even when cropped to 16:9.
@RandomBlockFilms its not permanent and it might be removed, but if you type youtube(dot)com/home you'll have the old layout again, it'll change back if you click back to the home page by clicking the youtube button. I just bookmarked the address with the added /home for convenience. IMO the layout is fine if they give us the ability to delete watched videos again.
Interesting! It's hard to say if it's worse to have the black bars on either side of the video or to have this stretching effect. Seems like a twelve of one and a dozen of the other to me!
Not sure what you are getting at with this comment. If you are commenting on the fact that I have the yt:stretch tag in there then it means nothing. I uploaded the video natively in widescreen so that tag has no effect on the video. I also am aware of the use of the tag when an anamorphic widescreen video doesn't fill the whole box and gets squashed for some reason.
If your comment isn't about that tag being in there, then I still have no idea what you are getting at.
the main purpose for the tag was to help people who have what's called anamorphic video, where it takes 16:9 video and squishes it to 4:3 people would then have to stretch it so that it looks right, but you are right that people are taking native (non anamorphic) video and stretching it, causing distortion instead of fixing getting rid of it.
Yeah, I'm aware of it's uses. I believe I have 2 or 3 videos where I had some kind of processing issue and needed to use it to get the aspect ratio correct.
It was just annoying though, that at the time I posted this video (which was roughly 2 years ago), I saw so many stretched videos, and the 4:3 ones that were untouched had comments in them saying, "Hey, you can make your video widescreen with yt:stretch=16:9!" and the video creators were listening to them.
You know your stuff man, I tried the 16:9 stretch on 4:3 and I'm all stretched in the middle...you are right it looks stupid. Good video, thanks for posting.
I added that tag in there when my video is already widescreen, so it does nothing to distort it. It's simply there so that people searching yt:stretch=16:9 could find it.
I like the critique on the stretch tags. I have a question, what if you used a video converter like Movavi and converted the video from AVI to WMV-HD, then you uploaded it? Would it be the same dealio?
Also, on my other account, I have a true HD video, but youtube still put black bars on the sides, when I put the stretch tag in place, the black bars were gone. I have no idea what's up with that.
if it's supposed to be widescreen and it comes out with black bars, that's what yt:stretch is for, to fix that. If the original video is supposed to be in 4:3 ratio, using yt:stretch=16:9 to make it widescreen just stretches out a video and it makes it look stupid.
If you're using an editing program and you're stretching out a 4:3 to 16:9, then you're doing the same thing. If something starts in 4:3, it should stay that way, if it starts out 16:9, it should stay that way.
The point is that sometimes when someone uploads a 16:9 video, youtube mistakenly thinks its 4:3. This happens if you encode your video with non-square pixels. (Widescreen DV/NTSC formats, for example have a pixel ratio of 1.2). To fix the problem, you need to add the stretch tags, otherwise you need to recode your video with square pixels and then re-upload it. It's dumb when people stretch their 4:3 videos, but if youtube messes up the aspect ration on a genuine 16:9 video, the tags are great
I know that they have their uses. I'm just sick of watching videos that look perfectly good except for the fact that they stretch the 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 when it was recorded in 4:3
Maybe youtube should add a button to videos so that you can pick the aspect ratio of the clip you're watching if you don't agree with the authors choice.
I tend to do this when I need to remove windowboxing. It drastically lowers the quality though. It's useful for situations where saving in 1280x720 would make the video look generally worse, even when cropped to 16:9.
BannedFromThisSite 1 month ago
i wish there was a tag to bring back the old youtube layout :(
RandomBlockFilms 2 months ago
@RandomBlockFilms its not permanent and it might be removed, but if you type youtube(dot)com/home you'll have the old layout again, it'll change back if you click back to the home page by clicking the youtube button. I just bookmarked the address with the added /home for convenience. IMO the layout is fine if they give us the ability to delete watched videos again.
arrieta96 2 months ago
@arrieta96 THANK YOU!! hopefully they dont change this but they probably will.
RandomBlockFilms 2 months ago
Interesting! It's hard to say if it's worse to have the black bars on either side of the video or to have this stretching effect. Seems like a twelve of one and a dozen of the other to me!
blackturtleshow 2 months ago
*Looks at tags for your video*
...xD...
KnucklesARouge 3 months ago 2
@KnucklesARouge
Not sure what you are getting at with this comment. If you are commenting on the fact that I have the yt:stretch tag in there then it means nothing. I uploaded the video natively in widescreen so that tag has no effect on the video. I also am aware of the use of the tag when an anamorphic widescreen video doesn't fill the whole box and gets squashed for some reason.
If your comment isn't about that tag being in there, then I still have no idea what you are getting at.
MistaX8 3 months ago
its becoming a sort of craze in skateboarding videos . pisses me off
mileses 3 months ago
the main purpose for the tag was to help people who have what's called anamorphic video, where it takes 16:9 video and squishes it to 4:3 people would then have to stretch it so that it looks right, but you are right that people are taking native (non anamorphic) video and stretching it, causing distortion instead of fixing getting rid of it.
hobocamptheater 4 months ago
@hobocamptheater
Yeah, I'm aware of it's uses. I believe I have 2 or 3 videos where I had some kind of processing issue and needed to use it to get the aspect ratio correct.
It was just annoying though, that at the time I posted this video (which was roughly 2 years ago), I saw so many stretched videos, and the 4:3 ones that were untouched had comments in them saying, "Hey, you can make your video widescreen with yt:stretch=16:9!" and the video creators were listening to them.
MistaX8 4 months ago
@MistaX8 people just think that bigger numbers are better when they don't understand.
like thinking a bigger mm lens is wider when it's actually the opposite.
hobocamptheater 4 months ago
hahah you've probs gotten so many views from me coming to this one video just to copy that ytstretch16:9
gradeeesinHD 4 months ago
I love how cold those cans get when you turn them upside down :P
5dmc1 4 months ago
SCOTTHEDOGGIE!
AddictiveAirsoft 6 months ago
You know your stuff man, I tried the 16:9 stretch on 4:3 and I'm all stretched in the middle...you are right it looks stupid. Good video, thanks for posting.
guowushu 7 months ago
You did it yourself......
KnucklesARouge 7 months ago
OMG! THE OLD YOUTUBE DESIGN! I FORGOT HOW GOOD YOUTUBE LOOKED BACK THEN!
SunnyvaleLife 8 months ago
i always rendered with wrong settings before(1080x720) and it worked fine then so i does have some good uses...
bigge006 8 months ago
@bigge006
I never said it didn't have it's uses. But when it first came out, everyone and their mother was stretching out their 4:3 videos with that tag.
MistaX8 8 months ago
Look at the tags of this vid
AviatorReviews 8 months ago 5
@AviatorReviews
I added that tag in there when my video is already widescreen, so it does nothing to distort it. It's simply there so that people searching yt:stretch=16:9 could find it.
MistaX8 8 months ago 6
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TheFlash2215 10 months ago
Doesn`t WORK
MegaGamerRO 1 year ago
People abuse the yt stretch.
I agree; it should only be used if you somehow render a video in 1270x720.
Stretching a 640x480 is stupid. Looks ugly too.
tomken8dy 1 year ago
I like the critique on the stretch tags. I have a question, what if you used a video converter like Movavi and converted the video from AVI to WMV-HD, then you uploaded it? Would it be the same dealio?
Also, on my other account, I have a true HD video, but youtube still put black bars on the sides, when I put the stretch tag in place, the black bars were gone. I have no idea what's up with that.
yoshifannumba3 1 year ago
@yoshifannumba3
if it's supposed to be widescreen and it comes out with black bars, that's what yt:stretch is for, to fix that. If the original video is supposed to be in 4:3 ratio, using yt:stretch=16:9 to make it widescreen just stretches out a video and it makes it look stupid.
If you're using an editing program and you're stretching out a 4:3 to 16:9, then you're doing the same thing. If something starts in 4:3, it should stay that way, if it starts out 16:9, it should stay that way.
MistaX8 1 year ago
Also will be cool if they add a rotation option.
ReiMomo 2 years ago
The point is that sometimes when someone uploads a 16:9 video, youtube mistakenly thinks its 4:3. This happens if you encode your video with non-square pixels. (Widescreen DV/NTSC formats, for example have a pixel ratio of 1.2). To fix the problem, you need to add the stretch tags, otherwise you need to recode your video with square pixels and then re-upload it. It's dumb when people stretch their 4:3 videos, but if youtube messes up the aspect ration on a genuine 16:9 video, the tags are great
check86 2 years ago 2
I know that they have their uses. I'm just sick of watching videos that look perfectly good except for the fact that they stretch the 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 when it was recorded in 4:3
MistaX8 2 years ago
Maybe youtube should add a button to videos so that you can pick the aspect ratio of the clip you're watching if you don't agree with the authors choice.
check86 2 years ago 20
100% agree. I also hate it when people stretch out old 4:3 TV-shows on their widescreen TV.
MattiKoopa 2 years ago 9