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New option for uploading: formatting tags

YouTube Liz

Hey guys,

New options for Uploaders! :)

In our Team's continued effort to give you ultimate control over how
your videos are presented, uploaders can now tweak (modify) the
appearance of their video when played on YouTube or in an embedded
player. Just insert any of the hint tags below into the tags field of
your video when you're uploading it, and you'll be able to format the
video to the following specifications:

Tag: yt:crop=16:9
(zooms in on the 16:9 area, removes windowboxing)

Tag: yt:stretch=16:9
(fixes anamorphic content by scaling to 16:9)

Tag: yt:stretch=4:3
(fixes 720x480 content that is the wrong aspect ratio by scaling to
4:3)

Tag: yt:quality=high
(default to a high quality stream, depending on availability)

Thought this info would be useful :) Happy uploading!

~ Liz