I did wonder what format to do my video in, looking at examples already out and counting the pixels I noticed they appeared to be in 384 x 216 (Aspect ratio size 16:9) and I was going to do mine in that, but then I also noticed the same reply you saw about "4:3 aspect ratio. Optimum pixels 400 x 300", so I pondered, which to go for..
If I used the first one, then my video could look like its supposed to and not skewif, but then, what if they convert it to 400 x 300! then it would look equally silly!
So I thought, well, as no one else seems to be going for 16:9 so I may as well follow the crowd and if we all end up with videos looking a little worse for wear it doesn't matter. (Which is why I used very large font sizes in my video in case the text was too hard to read otherwise if it got distorted.)
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I did wonder what format to do my video in, looking at examples already out and counting the pixels I noticed they appeared to be in 384 x 216 (Aspect ratio size 16:9) and I was going to do mine in that, but then I also noticed the same reply you saw about "4:3 aspect ratio. Optimum pixels 400 x 300", so I pondered, which to go for..
If I used the first one, then my video could look like its supposed to and not skewif, but then, what if they convert it to 400 x 300! then it would look equally silly!
So I thought, well, as no one else seems to be going for 16:9 so I may as well follow the crowd and if we all end up with videos looking a little worse for wear it doesn't matter. (Which is why I used very large font sizes in my video in case the text was too hard to read otherwise if it got distorted.)
by Nigel Jarman