How To Remove Black Bars on Existing YouTube Videos [Creators Tip #128] |
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In July 2021, YouTube set all unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 to private (unless the channel owner had opted out). In the weeks leading up to this change, Archive Team archived many pre-2017 unlisted YouTube videos. If this video was uploaded before 2017 and has gone private, there is a chance that a 360p archived version can be viewed on archive.org via the site's Wayback Machine as follows: 1. Enter the YouTube URL in the Wayback Machine form or click on the following link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210000000000*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxPrVJkFNOk 2. Right-click on a blue entry in July in the calendar. 3. Click 'Copy link address'. 4. Paste the copied link address into your web browser's address bar and press enter.
Description: http://www.reelseo.com/remove-black-bars-youtube/ If you have older videos on YouTube that are cropped, have black bars, or are stretched to look weird, YouTube has a couple formatting tags you can use that will remove the black bars, restore stretched videos back to their normal aspect ratio, and more. Plus, they have a tag that lets you force the video to playback in high quality by default. Here they are: yt:quality=high: Defaults to a high quality stream (available based on the size of the viewer's player and the size of the browser window) yt:crop=16:9: Zooms in on the 16:9 area, removes windowboxing yt:stretch=16:9: Fixes anamorphic content by scaling to 16:9 yt:stretch=4:3: Fixes 720x480 content that is the wrong aspect ratio by scaling to 4:3 Get more help with YouTube formatting tags here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/146402?hl=en VISIT REELSEO.com FOR TONS MORE VIDEO NEWS & TIPS http://www.reelseo.com SUBSCRIBE FOR OTHER VIDEO TIPS AND NEWS! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=reelseo SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reelweb-video-guide/id527822483 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST! http://rseo.co/ReelSEOemail LET'S CONNECT! Google+ ► http://gplus.to/reelseo Facebook ► http://facebook.com/reelseo Twitter ► http://twitter.com/reelseo Linkedin ► http://linkedin.com/today/reelseo.com ReelSEO ► http://www.reelseo.com 
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