Youtube’s Widescreen Video, Obama’s First Change

November 30, 2008

„I knew Obama would bring change.“ This is a great joke comment at Digg on YouTube goes widescreen topic. There are 3402 diggs for this story after 5 days( YuTube brought widescreen feature at Tuesday). People are enthralled with this widescreen change at Digg. Opposite to that, at YouTube’s blog users are not so delighted. Contrary to Digg, at YouTube’s blog comments are mostly from publishers, so reaction is a little bit different. Most of them are asking for optional widescreen feature.

Here’s a comment that took my attention from YouTube user RedInf3rno:

Ignore the black bars? LOL! Clearly some of you have never used Stage6 or Vimeo before. There’s a right way and a wrong way to implement widescreen, and the way YouTube chose to do it is CRAP ON A STICK. The web player is software that can be easily coded to adapt. It is NOT a fucking television. There’s no reason to be putting 4:3 videos inside a 16-9 window. None of my desktop players do it, and neither should the YouTube player.

Changing from 4:3 to Widesreen

Though I noticed lately many people use it to publish videos, I haven’t used vimeo, and it seems they offer widescreen optional. I checked is it added to Tubemogul – video distribution, and it has been from recently. It’s one more munition in Tubemogul weapon.

All my videos are 4:3, so I researched how I can publish them in widescreen in future. Basically, turn video size from 640:480 to 640:360 before rendering. If you’re on Mac here’s how to convert the video from 4:3 to wide screen for Mac users.

youtube widescreen video

There’s a large list of video sharing communities, but YouTube is mainstream and even other websites have added great features no one cannot approach YouTube’s traffic. It’s evident reason why Google bought YouTube, albeit they owned Google video before the deal. Anyhow, all video community websites can be considered as YouTube’ clone.

Video Editing Review

All my videos I made using Camtasia screen recorder and used it as editing tool as well, but recently I started playing around with Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Here’s video editing review if you haven’t decided yet which video editing tool to chose. There are ratings for 10 video editing softwares with reviews for many options like editing tools, easier usage, editing effects, costs and many more.