YouTube has now gone over the modern era if I might call it like that, by releasing a quality option of 720 or 1080p HD or widescreen as well. So, it’s killed me to get my old videos on YouTube to appear widescreen; human nature we want everything trendy! After tedious hours of searching through internet and applying every possible setting on YouTube; I uncovered a simple trick that’s worked like ‘magic’.
Follow through these few steps and Voila enjoy the new widescreen look of your videos:-
- Click on ‘Edit Video‘.
- Go to ‘Info and settings’,
- Just enter yt:stretch=16:9 code in the tags section at the end of the tags, this zooms in on the 16:9 area and removes window boxing of your video.
Widescreen YouTube video after applying a code in the tag section
I hope this little trick will come in handy! It really did for me!