Diving Malapascua, Philippines [4k]

[Chris Underwater]

Two weeks of diving around Malapascua Island.
Filmed with a Sony a7sIII.

 

[KPV]

Please do not add these black horizontal lines. It makes your videos look like crap on wide angle screens (because it is not wide angle video but standard 16:9 with black horizontal lines) and does not futureproof your videos. Just export in desired aspect ratio. Youtube and other services fill the rest of the screen with black by default. Your video looks like this:

But it can be like this one:

 

[Chris Underwater]

Please do not add these black horizontal lines. It makes your videos look like crap on wide angle screens (because it is not wide angle video but standard 16:9 with black horizontal lines) and does not futureproof your videos. Just export in desired aspect ratio. Youtube and other services fill the rest of the screen with black by default.

I appreciate your feedback, but there is a reason why I do this (and it's quite a common practice): avoiding compatibility issues on older devices who have trouble with anything but the standard video formats.
What with playback on widescreen devices ideally should happen is that the respective player detects the letterboxing and automatically zooms in; I'm not sure why this does not happen in your case.