Video Tip: Getting the Most from 16:9
It’s official: 16:9 is the aspect ratio of the future. And here at Yahoo! Video, the future is now (at other video sites the future is still just in the future, but they don’t have a suped-up Delorean like we do). We embrace the wide-screen aesthetic, so how can video uploaders make the most out of the 16:9 experience?
The general rule is: export the video in its native aspect ratio, and be sure to enable any function that preserves that aspect ratio. If you look at your original movie file and see black bars on the top and bottom, those black bars will be encoded, and your video will shrink. Just check out these illustrations (using Blender Foundation’s Big Buck Bunny):
It’s the difference between this:
and this:
The first one was exported as 4:3, even though the video was in 16:9. Hence the squishing.
Secondly, for best quality your video should be at least 576 x 324 pixels. This is the size of our player. Uploading at that size means your video won’t have to be scaled up, and you’ll maintain optimum resolution. After all, no one likes a chunky video.
If you’re not making videos at 16:9, that’s totally fine. But the same ideas apply: export the video in its native aspect ratio (be it 4:3, 2.39:1, 1.85:1 or whatever)), and keep the video as close to—or even larger than—the size of our player. Any letterboxing or windowboxing will be applied automatically at the time of playback.
-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team
Muereelkin - El Pastor Culión:
Bueno, en lo que dicen ustedes tienen razón, si uno no sube el video en 16:9 no se podrá explotar al máximo el reproductor de Yahoo! video, en algunos casos, por ejemplo, al “emblendarlo” en algunas páginas web, si el video tiene otro Aspect Ratio, por ejemplo 4:3, se verán unas líneas negras a los lados, yo lo que hago, en mi caso, es tomar el código HTML y editarle las medidas height y width al tamaño del video, para que no me salgan esas HORROROSAS líneas negras 8que se ven muy mal en un fondo blanco)… buenas sugerencias por parte de ustedes, pero, pues, una pequeña crítica constructiva, el DivX web Player (que usaba Stage6) se acomodaba automáticamente al video, así la gente subía hasta presentaciones de fotos verticales y el reproductor se acomodaba verticalmente, esto para evitar esas líneas negras, el código HTML también se acomodaba automáticamente para que quedara a la medida en donde se “Emblendara”
18 June 2008, 7:36 am¿se podría hacer lo mismo con un reproductor flash como Yahoo! Video?
Si ese avance se hace, avanzarían un paso delante de Youtube, aunque, con el hecho de tener un Reproductor 16:9 ya los tienen ADELANTADÍSIMOS (solo falta subir un trisito la calidad de los videos)…
Bueno, ese fue mi comentario, en otro idioma, pero, la idea es que comento ( al parecer soy el Único)
Muereelkin - El Pastor Culión:
Saludos, soy el ÚNICO FAN DE VERDAD que tienen desde Colombia, Suerte y sigan trabajando señor Kent y todo el equipo de Yahoo! Video
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26 June 2008, 3:02 pmlp:
I record video with cametesia using a ratio that is the multiple of 576×324.
The output is .MOV 16 million colors quality medium
when look in quicktime it is looking goog but in yahoo video the result i average
Any other input when uploading video?
28 June 2008, 8:04 pmSUZAN:
PLAYE VIDEO YOTUBE
29 June 2008, 11:09 pmAdministrator:
Hey lp,
Can you compress it at higher quality? You should use as much of that 150 mb file size as you can.
-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team
1 July 2008, 9:53 pmMetro Encoding:
So which would be better: 576×324 or 640×360? What sort of resizing algorithm are you using?
18 July 2008, 12:55 amIan Chase:
What are the best encoding settings to submit to Yahoo! Video? I’m hoping to improve the Yahoo! Video preset in Adobe Media Encoder.
28 March 2009, 9:42 am