Actual video size yjay gets exported

[robert58]

When you export a Nero project 'to web', the programme says you will get a 720 x 576 video. But when you upload to YouTube, the video is tiny, and sits in the middle of the standard YouTube video window surrounded by black. Looks silly! Surely if you're exporting to web, it should be the YouTube video window size... How do i fix this, please? I don't see any size option dialogue in the 'export to web' process...

[Mister_M]

It seems as if you've exported 16:9 video into a 4:3 format. Unfortunately Nero 10 (can't check Nero 11 at the moment) sets the aspect ratio automatically to 4:3, when you choose the "Export to internet" option. Since youtube displays its player in 16:9, you'll get black bars on each side of your video (see the attached picture for explanation).

To avoid this, you'll have to export your edited video to a data file (for youtube you should choose "Profile: AVC -> Format: AVC"). Next to the profile, you'll find the configuration settings button. Click on it to set your preferred configuration and export your video to an MP4-file. You should now upload your video directly to youtube without using Nero.

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[robert58]

Thanks Mister M
I think you might be right - I thought I was making the video in 4:3, but I think one imported clip was widescreen,and that's infected the whole thing.
I followed your adive - or tried to, and came eventually on a screen which said Nero Video 11 coudln't save as AVC, I would need to upgrade.
I though that might be because I was using the trial version, so I paid for the full version.
880 MB later, I tried again - same screen, something about licenses missing. If Nero 10 will do it, why not Nero 11 - do you know?
Thanks for your continuing help on this, if you have the time.

[robert58]

BTW, my info is that the YouTube default is now 16:9 , so if you do 4:3, your videos will always have black on the left and right when the video player is 16:9. It will only have black on top and bottom if the height is smaller than the player size.
Bob

[wither]

In regards to the licenses missing- did you activate the patent? You would need to do that with AVC since it's mpeg-4.

[robert58]

Hi Wither
Thanks for your thoughts! I didn't know about separate licenses.. Can you tell me what to do, please... Who are/is AVC?

[Mister_M]

AVC is a codec for videos (a bit like a video format) and stands for "Advanced Video Coding". Normally you should be asked to activate the patent/licence, when using those codecs for the first time.

[FarmerSmurfFFA]

Hi Robert58,

Have you added your personal Nero 11 serial number into Nero ControlCenter?

If you imported the serial number and got the license missing message when you tried to activate the third party patent through internet, this can have several causes. Please send an email directly to techsupport@nero.com.

The Nero technical support team will be glad to help you with the problem.

Best regards,

FarmerSmurfFFA

[robert58]

Thank-you Farmer Smurf and Mister M for you helpful advice. Long way to go, but I feel I have companions on the way. My Mister Musicarta videos steadfastly refuse to fill the screen but have got a little bigger. They're about playing the piano, so I should know that only practice makes perfect!
Thanks again
robert58, aka
Mister Musicarta

[hg-dude]

Having regard of your #3, - you used the wrong settings for the project (I assume DVD-Video) where you are creating your video for exporting lateron to YT. You should leave the defaults in the Recording Format Options, means aspect ratio on "Automatic". The aspect ratio of the project is then initiated on base of the aspect ratio of the first imported video. Is this 4:3 the display area you see of the monitor in the "Edit Video" window has an aspect ratio of 4:3 resp. 16:9 if the video has 16:9. The resolution remains always on 720x480 (4:3). See screenshot



The correct alignment in the display during playback is done by the monitor (TV or that of the SW player) and not by the player itself. In this case (TV-standard format) the image is widened, but from HD media (Blu-Ray or AVCHD) it is zoomed in.

Ok, - if you understood that above you should be able to create a video with the correct aspect ratio.

There are some other problems you can have with correct alignment in the display area. There is a lack in the SW which causes a little shrinking of the image and adding of small black bars to the sides of the picture. These bars (yellow framed in the screenshot) are part of the picture content from now on and are disturbing lateron in horizontal shift effects e.g. See screenshot


　

Furthermore the aspect ratio of the imported material may not be exactly one of these which are supported by NV. In these cases NV tries to initiate the aspect ratio of the project according to the the nearest available, e.g. for 3:2 the aspect ratio for the project will be set to 4:3 and for 16:10 to 16:9. the picture then is supplemented with more or less black bars all around which also are now parts of the picture content, as mentioned above, and therefore visible in playback. You can remove these black bars by scaling the image that the visible content is filling the full size of the display area. There will then be a little loss of picture content and quality, but this is hardly even noticed. This most be done previous to further editing, means you have to export the scaled video and import again to a project with the correct settings as stated above.

My suggestions are documented by tests and the application for your own videos. Also there is a video in MyNero as an example of a correct adjustment of 4: 3-material on a 16: 9-display area:

Original http://ArmandLiberi.my.nero.com/blog/7508121

corrected http://hg-dude.my.nero.com/blog/7508238

The small black bars you see at the right or left side of some pictures in the corrected video are caused by incorrect centering the image in the display area, - my fault.

Also I will publish soon a blog in MyNero about handling of the aspect ratio, in which the workflow for the treatment of the aspect ratio in NV will be described in detail.

This post has been edited by hg-dude: Jun 16 2012, 12:23 PM