This post is for my latest YouTube video on TechTubeToday. The video will show you how to convert or encode any video so that YouTube thinks it's HD. This will mean it play in the large HD box if your viewers hit the HD button on the player. You can do this with any video. Even a horrible grainy mobile phone video. You can make that "HD". It will only loo as good as the original video but will play in the Bigger HD box.
I also show you how to encode your 4:3 videos (the old YouTube aspect ratio) to widescreen or 16:9 aspect ratio (Youtube's new aspect ratio). This will mean your video will stretch to fill the YouTube's widescreen video boxes and you won't get the vertical black bars on either side.
All you need is a video and a good video converter. I use Format Factory in the video so I recommend you use that too. It is completely free and legal to download. Middle click the link to open the download page in a new tab.
