You Tube have finally gone wide screen that’s 16:9 format or 1280px by 720px. I personally think its a great improvement since it now cuts down the time it takes for me to prepare video for You Tube. My video cameras shoot in wide screen and I would always have to re-render my 16:9 footage into a 4:3 box which produced letterbox black bars at top and bottom of those clips and also reducing the resolution of the video.
The Test
Today I tried encoding for the new wide screen format and uploaded a few test short clips to figure out what would be the best settings and came up with the following as the one that worked for me.
Using Premiere Pro CS3 I exported my final footage as follows:
Export to Adobe Media Encoder
NTSC
23.976 fps
HDTV 1280px X 720px
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+Kieran McCarthy