It would be nice if there was a way for us to go back and crop the top
and bottom black bars off of older uploads for the new 16:9 format
youtube windows, rather than reencode all of them and re-upload them.
Most of my videos are 16:9 or 2.35:1 so they would look much better in
the new format, except now they have black bars all the way around!
This should be simple to solve by just zooming in the videos to
eliminate the black bars for 16:9 uploads.
Exactly 4 of my older widescreen, letterboxed videos got converted to
widescreen. I can't figure out why those 4 were picked, although they
are older with more views than most. Links:
> It would be nice if there was a way for us to go back and crop the top
> and bottom black bars off of older uploads for the new 16:9 format
> youtube windows, rather than reencode all of them and re-upload them.
> Most of my videos are 16:9 or 2.35:1 so they would look much better in
> the new format, except now they have black bars all the way around!
> This should be simple to solve by just zooming in the videos to
> eliminate the black bars for 16:9 uploads.
Yes, I aggree!
I made all my video's to fill the youtube screen, and most of them
will be able to be cropped to widescreen, but I am not downloading
them to re-upload them!
> It would be nice if there was a way for us to go back and crop the top
> and bottom black bars off of older uploads for the new 16:9 format
> youtube windows, rather than reencode all of them and re-upload them.
> Most of my videos are 16:9 or 2.35:1 so they would look much better in
> the new format, except now they have black bars all the way around!
> This should be simple to solve by just zooming in the videos to
> eliminate the black bars for 16:9 uploads.
> Exactly 4 of my older widescreen, letterboxed videos got converted to
> widescreen. I can't figure out why those 4 were picked, although they
> are older with more views than most.
It probably depends whether you uploaded the video in true 16:9
format, or whether you converted a 16:9 video into 4:3 format before
uploading.
If you uploaded a 16:9 video, there's no reprocessing required: the
black bars were never part of the video, but the video was centred
vertically within the player. Now the player is widescreen, 16:9
videos take up the whole player.
If you converted a 16:9 video to 4:3 before uploading, then you added
the black bars yourself, and these black bars became part of the
video. To get rid of them, YouTube would have to analyse the video
frame by frame, detect the black bars and reprocess the whole thing,
which would be possible, but would be a massive undertaking, using up
a lot of processing power and an awful lot of time. And there's always
the risk that the black bars were placed there for some other reason,
or that the processor might mistake, say, a window frame silhouetted
against a view of a garden as a letterboxed movie, and completely ruin
it.
Thanks, you're probably right. It was so long ago I don't remember
what I did but I guess I was experimenting with different sizes.
Do you think there's any chance YouTube will ever let one (at least
partners) overwrite existing videos with better quailty so that the
old ones don't have to be deleted and re-added ?
> > Exactly 4 of my older widescreen, letterboxed videos got converted to
> > widescreen. I can't figure out why those 4 were picked, although they
> > are older with more views than most.
> It probably depends whether you uploaded the video in true 16:9
> format, or whether you converted a 16:9 video into 4:3 format before
> uploading.
> If you uploaded a 16:9 video, there's no reprocessing required: the
> black bars were never part of the video, but the video was centred
> vertically within the player. Now the player is widescreen, 16:9
> videos take up the whole player.
> If you converted a 16:9 video to 4:3 before uploading, then you added
> the black bars yourself, and these black bars became part of the
> video. To get rid of them, YouTube would have to analyse the video
> frame by frame, detect the black bars and reprocess the whole thing,
> which would be possible, but would be a massive undertaking, using up
> a lot of processing power and an awful lot of time. And there's always
> the risk that the black bars were placed there for some other reason,
> or that the processor might mistake, say, a window frame silhouetted
> against a view of a garden as a letterboxed movie, and completely ruin
> it.
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