YouTube Player Aspect Ratio Fix (Crop/Stretch)

[TheRemixedCafe]

yt:quality=low

[blenkarni]

I tried but my video is now too deep and the bottom is dissapearing

[HomerSETH9]

wtf happened? this doesnt work ANYMORE SOME1 PLEASE PM ME IF YOU FIND ANSWER

[JBHMEDIA]

Ok so YOUTUBE changed something and now my videos went back to being cut off...DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY TIPS?

JBH-FILMS

[JBHMEDIA]

Ok so YOUTUBE changed something and now my videos went back to normal...DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY TIPS?

JBH-FILMS

[KeepSkippin]

My video is zoomed in :s cus of the crop.. anyway to fix that? Can I un-zoom?

[UltimateFashion1]

@KeepSkippin i have the same problem and dunno how to solve it :-/

[Cresitan258]

Would the ratio equal to rendering it to 1280x960?

[ReviewCam]

I've tried switching from 4:3 to 16:9 in windows movie maker. Instead of two black bars on either side, I get small black borders on all sides and up and down

[JoshMarini]

thanks very helpful, BTW if anyone is confused with when he says paste into "keywords" he means in the tags section

[90kevigilante]

I still have very small black borders at the sides of my uploaded video even though i applied a 16:9 ratio on it, when i uploaded it. I then tried doing what you said on your video but it didn't work. is there another solution to my problem

[TheOmiJ]

@90kevigilante ur vid is already widescreen

[keikokitty189]

I love this music...is it on your site?

~Keiko

[IKronikHD]

hes so fugly!

[keikokitty189]

@IKronikHD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[FrenchBoyOfficial]

HELLO I AM IN 2011 AND THIS PROBLEM SO FAR FROM ME!!!!!!

MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO TO EXPLAIN HOW TO CHANGE THE FUCKING WORST NEW VIDEO LAYOUT!!!!!

[AldenTheOne]

but how is it when others like has a size 560x349 and has no black borders but when i upload the size 560x349 , it has black borders!

[AldenTheOne]

where's the keywords section???

[domeee11]

its not working?

[reksub10]

i have uploaded 2 vids that fit the screen but vids i watch from other users are all cropped on all sides ,even vids ive watched before and it wasnt like that but for some reason they are now .can anybody help me with this

[mackenzy123]

@reksub10 because some users render and know how to edit it to fit the screen on youtube theres a bunch of tutorials up about it

[reksub10]

@mackenzy123 so its to do with the person whu uploaded the vid ,not my p.c.? thanks

[FrankieLiveWireTV]

Thank you soo much man! i used on six videos!:D

[TehSGproductions]

this doesnt even work for me

[mackenzy123]

@TehSGproductions your account is closed so of course it wont lmao

[727JeffN]

Stretching a 4:3 image to 16:9 looks terrible!

[DekoOw]

Thanks so much

[hgprt12]

is there anything i can do as a viewer to fix the problem?

[FlashScoperz]

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SO SO SO MUCH!

[gothiksouls]

please tell me how to fix the upper and lower bars to this video, i tried already your codes and nothing

[TheBoredomOtaku]

@CopyPasteEscape lol i discovered how to do it within about 15 minutes after posting that comment anyway. XD thanks tho

[Awakenthebride]

i <3 you Onision : )

[TheBoredomOtaku]

you say put it in key words but i dont know what you mean by that. where do i paste the code?

[Donnner93]

I've tried to stretch out my video  watch?v=29DBgpixr0E but it doesn't seem to work, how exactly did you do it? Where did you put your yt:stretch=4:3 yt:crop=16:9 yt:quality=high code in the video? PLEASE HELP!

[Runie0FLFS]

@Donnner93 In the tags.

[Applekushifier]

doesn't work for mine :( and it is kinda important

[TTLstudios]

Thanks for the tip dude!  I was afraid I'd have to re-upload the whole video again but this got rid of the little black bars! Works like a charm.

[xsKiitz]

YOU. ARE. A. LEGEND.

Thanks dude, works perfect! :D

[hiitsme3love128]

It dosen't make MY videos any better. :(

[wakaratwakawaka]

Now fix it so CorpTube won't promote BP over your video.

[FreesicGames]

@hihi9764 xD Sexy

[billeyjbob5000]

what do you mean in you key word

[MatroFilms]

@billeyjbob5000 he means tags

[JarJarComedy]

i actually didnt use ur method but u jogged my memory on how to fix my problem. thanks

[lightsydeshankums]

doesnt fucking work

[RandomMac5]

was you a girl by any chance? look at his eye lashes

[ArvaF]

This information is sweet, but it's the same everywhere. I'm looking for a command with which I can change AR of videos other people has uploaded. I believe it was to put "&f18" in the end of the address and you could change the AR of a video while watching it, but it doesn't work anymore. Do you know anything about that, because there are just toooo many nuts out there who don't fix their video AR and it annoys the heck out of me!

[paradigmshift03]

Hey..this really helped....but i havre a query....my video camera has a default resolution of 720x576.....and when i edit ad produce files with a 4:3 aspect ratio...the width is slightly stretched. Is it possible to use any other aspect ratios other than 4:3 and 16:9 on youtube??

[Hulio7271]

The first video I added the stretch tag to worked perfectly. With the others, it isn't working no matter what I do. And why the hell is a site as huge as youtube taking my 16:9 videos and making them 4:3 anyways? Does this just not seem like a ridiculously large malfunction? Wouldn't this be fixable within a day if youtube decided to fix it? Anyways, the yt:stretch=16:9 tag worked for me once and not since. Any ideas on how that is possible?

[dawolffreak]

Thanks! :D

[realisticHomeboy]

Unfortunately people are complete idiots and refuse to fix their videos even though they are in wrong aspect ratio. People would rather avoid black borders, than having correct aspect ratio, despite it looking like shit because everything is either too tall or too wide.

[barichm0]

@realisticHomeboy

Not only does it make everything too tall or too wide, it also makes the video distorted.

To understand what I mean by that, imagine what happens if an object rotates with respect to the screen.

The object appears to deform as it rotates.

It's hideous -- and mathematically incorrect.

[realisticHomeboy]

@barichm0 It is indeed hideous, but somehow a lot of people cannot even see that something is wrong.

[GerlaineTalk]

Thanx for this.  I am fixing all my vids now!

[yertle123]

thank u onision

[BatteryEaters]

The only thing I can't figure out is where to paste it. You say, "Paste it into your keywords, but where do you do that? What part of your account shows keyword?" Do you mean tags?

[JohnBaxterly]

@BatteryEaters Yeah, you put it anywhere in your tags.

[dawolffreak]

@BatteryEaters Yeah, he means tags.

[CH8ZYetc]

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

[OldSkoolMedia]

This works better...your formula stretch to much...(no hard feelings).............. yt:crop=16:9 yt:quality=high yt:stretch=16:9

[outlaw2skate]

@OldSkoolMedia thanks!

[OldSkoolMedia]

@outlaw2skate no problem...!!!

[outlaw2skate]

last time i did this my video got to big for the screen, what can i do?

[ItsCosmin]

If you want to slove this problem from the beginning watch my sony vegas tutorial :) rendering settings

[TeamLOGIC09]

im subbing you just for this video! your a life saver i was annoyed that my videos kept getting cropped! all you have to do is paste the code he gives you i your video tags! Thanks Man

[xXAFTEREFFECTSXx]

Erh. where do i paste it?

[keriquacka]

In the keyword section or tag section

[OldSkoolMedia]

@xXAFTEREFFECTSXx paste on tags...!!!

[Diannalovesyou]

oh my god. I love you! thanks so much!

[d0ubl3sh0t1]

very nice,and i love the music

[blondiebrunettex3]

that actually works thanks and also i need some help. i signed up for an account on your website because i like ur music (especially this song its my favorite out of all ur songs) and im not really sure what this song is called or how i can listen to it b4 i download it. could u help me out?

[whiterottenrabbit]

Wow, it is really nice to see, that there are people who actually care about the quality of their videos and who know or at least have an idea, what the words "aspect ratio" mean. Sadly, here are people (not only on youtube) who don't give a shit about such things.

[MakotoTsuguri]

Keep in mind people, do not just put the yt:stretch=16:9 by itself, otherwise it will look extremely wonky and the size of the video will be eaten up by the edges of the video box. By adding yt:crop= 16:9, you can have your 4:3 video fit in proportion. I did this with one of my older 4:3 videos, and it looks perfectly in proportion like my newer videos.

[showjumper42882]

I like how you used the word "wonky" xD

[elvirageekgirl]

Please, you need to first tell people that they SHOULDN'T do this if their original video was shot as 4:3 fullscreen, because stretching out a 4:3 fullscreen video to widescreen (16:9) just makes everything look fat and squashed out.

There are already too many (forgive me) idiots on YouTube who prefer to distort their whole image (making everything look squashed and freaky) just for the sake of getting rid of some black bars, which are supposed to be there in order to prevent image distortion.

[mikenike90]

Thats a matter of preference. I prefer to fill the screen even though I am educated enough to know the consequences.

[elvirageekgirl]

@mikenike90 No, aspect ratio is not a matter of preference or opinion. It is about math. It is not a matter of preference to say that 2+2=5, it's just wrong. Human beings and everything in nature have been endowed with one set of proportions and they don't change. If you want to distort something then no one can stop you and you have a right to do it. I'm sure you *think* you know the "consequences" (of how bad it truly looks) but if you really did, you wouldn't do it.

[elvirageekgirl]

@mikenike90 And also: There are people who have the aspect ratio version of color blindness or tone deafness. They still have good vision or hearing, but they are not able to discern things that others can. They may on one level intellectually understand that it's stretched out, but they can't comprehend how truly distorted it looks.

Do a google search for the keywords "Aspect Ratio Fail" and "are some people just visually dull" to read some interesting discussions about this phenomenon.

[mojominnow]

great video - that command line does work but only for videos that are originally uploaded to youtube 640x480. Other sizes get various box-crop effects from that command. Perhaps a better remedy is for tubers to change aspect ratio in video edit software to 16:9 or 1.78 (same thing) and then when saving videos, select frame size to be 1280x720 Use FLV for fasted file save and upload.

[ObiTrev]

Look there are two types of video 16:9 and 4:3. Most video is still to this day 4:3, streaching that image to 16:9 is a craptastic way to do buisness. Do not stretch 4:3 to 16:9 and vise versa. Have you ever seen a video on a widescreen TV and everything round was shaped like an egg, or everyone looked short and fat, that's aspect ratio stupidity. STOP THE ASPECTS OF RATIO MADNESS!

[elvirageekgirl]

@ObiTrev YES YES YES! You are totally right, and it's irresponsible to instruct everyone to stretch out their video, without first establishing whether the original was 4:3 or 16:9. If it's 16;9, sure, but 4:3 stretched out to fill the frame will make everyone look like CRAP! It's idiotic to do this! Hasn't anyone ever heard of PROPORTIONS? You can't just mess up and stretch out (or squish) proportions without the result looking like crap.

[z0rgz0rg]

++

everyone needs to do this

[Corrupt5358]

********IMPORTANT********

There is no "Key words" option - you mean "Tags"

Cheers anyway it works properly now! I know its somewhere in help but I couldn't find it.

[Punnie101]

All I needed was yt:stretch=16:9

I don't post videos over 16:9 so it works great.

yt:quality=high caused my videos' qualities to be better but also made their default size to the bigger version.

Using yt:crop=16:9 caused some of my videos viewing area to be cut off.

Basically

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

Failed for me & just

yt:stretch=16:9 worked the best alone. :)

Glad you posted this video it helped me a lot. :)

[xZeryu]

for me it cut off a big line at the top

[RLfilmz]

thanks so much.

[TINMANschannel]

thank dude works great,

when u put this code into ur tags make sure there is a space in front of the code and a space at the end of the code ,,Alan

[goldenxar]

The Youtube high quality trick won't work for me.

[MarioWars]

he said to put those codes in the tags, but he uses his video editing system to make his videos wide screen.

.......

[MarioWars]

i clicked on a partner video.

NNNOOOOOO!!!!!!

[SmallSkaterFreak]

thx for ur help dude!

[OfficiallyUnoffical]

where do i put the code? i tried putting it in tags, the name, description. Nothing works.

It stays the same

[jhonrivet81]

telas!

[Motorbike131]

Dude thanks a TON

[DavRS2]

Works perfect dude cheers. It also sorts out HQ problems (with the HQ button not coming up). Thanks alot, made my Runescape videos a lot better.

[acmwindotcom]

very helpful indeed. cheers dude

[gwiner7041]

real good

[gwiner7041]

Thanks for the cool info

[teanns]

wheres the letterbox :o

[PinkSkwrlProductions]

Thank you!!!! I was having INSANE amounts of trouble trying to render/upload videos in widescreen, so I just tried what you said, and it was really, really helpful.

Now I won't have to letterbox anymore!!! :D

[PioneersProductions]

Awsome! Thanks so much :)

[sammieegirll11]

you are a life saver. :)

thanks for posting this, it helped. A LOT.

[mrdeleted]

Cool man

[user3315]

your video is excellent what kind of camara

[Jawsusfreak777]

Or you can do everything the correct way the first time.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Yes go back in time. Like MJFox.

[NUBZvidz]

great it works , but does anyone now hor fred and nigahiga have there featured video as 4:3 aspect ratio and not the youtube widescreen player?

[UnknownMutant51]

probably youtube partners must have a choice to ether switch to square player or widescreen.

[bummblebee79]

Cool! Thanks!

[Braehawk]

Hmm. Interesting. I'll have to look into that. Thanks.

[asdfgoogle]

If you stretch the video out then it'll distort the image... I highly recommend leaving it as it is, or change your "publishing" settings when you create the video.

Make the video 1280x720 (ratio of 1.77777778) or 800x600/640x480 (ratio of 1.3333333). When you upload your video, Youtube will automatically stretch it to fit the window best as possible without any distortion.

[CzarnyZazul]

HOLY SHIT!

I am glad I watch this video!

That is awesome.

[redrose3693]

Thanks for the tip :)

[RedDragonProductions]

wow, thank you for enlightening me on that subject. I shall try that right now.

[ShadowsFilmsStudios]

damn it it did not work :(

[sanjuacharya]

Please note Ohh Nii Sii Onn people, use on HD videos at your own risk, it will degrade it a little and stretch it (its supposed to do that ANYWAY, but the HDness will look weird). However, its good for the other resolutions of your videos.

[ShadowsFilmsStudios]

thanks man!!!

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Thanks!

[cagedrazor13]

cool keep that in mind when i make my first video

[ShadowsFilmsStudios]

how do I get to the keywords?

[sanjuacharya]

he means the TAGS for your video

Roll your curser over your username on the top of the page, there will be a drop down menu.

Click on 'My Videos'.

You will see 'Edit'' by each one of your videos, click 'Edit' by the video you want to correct.

Scroll down, you'll see 'Tags', copy and paste yt:stretch=4:3 yt:crop=16:9 yt:quality=high over there, and in an instant (almost literally) your video should be fullscreen the way it should be!

[ShadowsFilmsStudios]

thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

[pottynoodle]

omg thank you this was so helpful!!