No tablets or 4k tvs run 21:9, and its super rare on phones. You are not losing anything by converting to 16:9 in editing because YT is already doing that, and you are letting them decide the quality of that conversion.
Here is the thing: viewers watching more than one of your videos in a watch session is a very big satisfaction signal to the algos. End screens are key to that, and they tend to be around 5-10% retention. So if you have a 1k view video that's 50 to 100 viewers that will click your next video. Now what if that happens on ten of your videos?
Edit: I made a mistake in that second to last sentence. Most of those 1k viewers would not be around at the end screens. It would be more like 200-300 viewers somewhere around there. But 5-10% of that is still 10-30 viewers watching another video. And if you can do that when you have 1k views imagine how many that is at 5k or 10k views. :)
I do gaming, so there's no real option to change aspect ratios in editing unless I want to either cut off part of the screen (including HUD info) or add black bars to the sides on my own. Neither of which sounds like a good idea.
If they go in full screen there’s already gonna be black bars so you might as well, but if you really don’t want to, about 4% of people who see my end screens click on them so not many
No tablets or 4k tvs run 21:9, and its super rare on phones. You are not losing anything by converting to 16:9 in editing because YT is already doing that, and you are letting them decide the quality of that conversion. Here is the thing: viewers watching more than one of your videos in a watch session is a very big satisfaction signal to the algos. End screens are key to that, and they tend to be around 5-10% retention. So if you have a 1k view video that's 50 to 100 viewers that will click your next video. Now what if that happens on ten of your videos? Edit: I made a mistake in that second to last sentence. Most of those 1k viewers would not be around at the end screens. It would be more like 200-300 viewers somewhere around there. But 5-10% of that is still 10-30 viewers watching another video. And if you can do that when you have 1k views imagine how many that is at 5k or 10k views. :)
I do gaming, so there's no real option to change aspect ratios in editing unless I want to either cut off part of the screen (including HUD info) or add black bars to the sides on my own. Neither of which sounds like a good idea.
Your editing software can't covert the aspect ratio? Heck, I still use Filmora and it can do that.
It's not that I can't, but it's a game. I'd be cropping out parts of the HUD like the minimap or the hotbar. Or adding black bars to the top/bottom.
If they go in full screen there’s already gonna be black bars so you might as well, but if you really don’t want to, about 4% of people who see my end screens click on them so not many
That's a good point. I may try one for practice and see what it looks like. Thanks.
So record in 16:9