Something To Keep In Mind When Filming For Youtube

Ok so this might be considered very basic and simple stuff and some people may think I’m a total idiot for now just having figured it out lol but if anyone else has any problems in this area…. YOU ARE NOT ALONE! AND I’M HERE TO ASSIST YOU!!! hahaha

What I just figured out is something about ASPECT RATIOS.  

For the longest time, I’ve been wanting to make HD videos for Youtube but whenever I tired to make a HD video, my computer would slow down whenever I edited them. It drove me crazy! So until I get a faster computer, I decided to lay off HD and just try standard. But the thing about standarded was that, on youtube, I couldn’t figure out how to record and get my video to fill up the entire video area. It drove me crazy!

Soooo I finally read up about Aspect Ratios, something I learned about in my English Film class but I guess I never really understood it until now haha

I knew to record widescreen and get HD for youtube was to record 1280×720.Indeed that’s what you have to record at to get HD but you don’t have to record at just that to get widescreen – which is what I wanted. Again, I’m sorry if I seem super slow for just figured this out but hey, no one told me! Everywhere I looked, everyone…..EVERYONE said to just record at 1270×720. UGH! I can’t record that on my computer, not if I just want to record my painting and not my entire screen. I thought that meant every other artist changed their viewing screen for Photoshop to full screen where you can’t see any of your brushes or layers which I need to see, I don’t know about anyone else but I can’t paint at full screen.

So I figured out to look at what the aspect ratio was for widescreen. It’s such a simple fix! Anyone remember learning fractions in like…what was it….the 3rd…4th grade?  Remember how you said you’d never ever use fractions? Well I used it today!!

In case there are anyone reading this that doesn’t know, fractions or ratios are basically they’re the same thing. Ratios are sort of just fractions but flipped on the side! haha So the way I figured out what to set my dimensions to record with on my computer, I took 16:9, which is the aspect ratio for widescreen, and made it into 16/9. Then I just times both numbers by 59 and I got  944/531. And that works for widescreen! Yay! I might make it smaller but I haven’t decided yet hahaha

So remember kids….math is good to know in the future.