> Your choices are to keep the OAR as 4:3 so that you have ~240 pixels of pillar bars on the left and right of the image (for HD), or crop into the image to make it full frame.
That's not true. You could keep the original aspect ratio and simply let the player decide. That way you aren't removing any information, and you aren't encoding redundant black bars into the video.
The YouTube player is perfectly capable of filling all available space it is given.
That's not true. You could keep the original aspect ratio and simply let the player decide. That way you aren't removing any information, and you aren't encoding redundant black bars into the video.
The YouTube player is perfectly capable of filling all available space it is given.