Getting a vertical stretch on finished videos...

crazydoglady

Newbie Location: Arizona Joined: Jun 02, 2012 13:44 Messages: 14 Offline

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Jul 23, 2012 18:58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_dyyHhoPJM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_Ls7oPbzU

I uploaded 2 movies last nite and both are showing a vertical stretch on playback when uploaded to YouTube.

If I play them in PowerDirector, they look fine, it is only when uploaded. (I have attatched the PD files just in case others see the stretch there) Both are in 16:9 aspect ratio.

I haven't done anything different (that I know of) with these 2 from the others I have done.

Any ideas as to what is going on?

Filename	emmi rebirth.pds	Download
Description
Filesize	979 Kbytes
Downloaded:	272 time(s)

Filename	2nd slugger.pds	Download
Description
Filesize	1109 Kbytes
Downloaded:	449 time(s)

HalCon

Senior Contributor Location: Charlottetown, PEI Joined: Mar 01, 2008 10:36 Messages: 719 Offline

Jul 23, 2012 21:12

crazydoglady,

Just for your information. We cannot do anything with the .pds files.

They are just text files and do not contain any media. In order for us to see what might be going on we would need that actual media that is used in the project along with the .pds file.

All we see/will see is the text entered on the titles and black colorboards where the media should be.

I downloaded one in the hope that you had used the sample files included with Power Director. If you get the same result from the sample files you can create the same project and insert the sample files in place of your own media files. Then we will be able to load the projects and perhaps see what you are seeing.

Hal

edited to add:
Watching the videos, I see very little stretching. But then I have not got the original media in order to make a comparison.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Jul 23. 2012 21:20

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jul 23, 2012 23:29

Hi crazydoglady -

Based on the fact that your other YouTube videos are 16:9 & lookin' fine, I'd say you've selected a 4:3 profile for upload to YouTube.

You didn't perhaps choose WMV High Quality, did you? It's 1440x1080 which is 4:3 unless your camera shoots in that resolution. It's for video with non-square pixels.

YouTube doesn't handle non-square pixels, as far as I know.

Cheers - Tony
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