Question / Help Black side bars, though I am using stretch image to screen and ignore aspect ratio.

I'm using OBS to record and then upload though, I'm not live streaming. There are black bars in the actual mp4 file on my computer, which also shows up on youtube.
 
Sanity checking, is the preview window completely filled, while recording?
If so, have you tried resizing your video playback program window? Many will also default to a 16:9 viewer window and columnbox 4:3 videos dynamically.
Also don't think I've ever seen YouTube present a 4:3 video in a 4:3 player. Hence the HUGE columnboxes on any vertical phone videos that idiots take.
 
It's completely filled while recording. I just resized the windows media player window of what I had recorded, and the black bars go away and come back in other places depending on the size. I'm willing to do almost anything to get rid of the collumnboxes so the video is completely filled on youtube.
 
You're not going to be able to get rid of them. The player on youtube is set for a specific resolution. If you're not filling it, you will get black bars.
 
Yep. You'll have to record at 16:9 to get rid of the black bars on YouTube. The bars aren't baked into your video, it's how YT fixes it to fill their page layout properly.
 
Harold said:
You're not going to be able to get rid of them. The player on youtube is set for a specific resolution. If you're not filling it, you will get black bars.
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What would I have to set the resolution to? I don't care if things on my screen or distorted a bit, as long as things are clear for viewers.
 
FerretBomb said:
Yep. You'll have to record at 16:9 to get rid of the black bars on YouTube. The bars aren't baked into your video, it's how YT fixes it to fill their page layout properly.
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Alright, thanks, both of you. I'll see if I can figure out a resolution. Sorry for my constant dumb questions on here.
 
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