• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Hi Quality youtube files

  Posted by Jennifer West on May 7, 2009 at 11:55 pm

  Hello

  I havent been able to get a good quality picture on youtube on a short video yet and have been trying different methods.

  Both videos are short, 1 is 39 seconds with no sound and the other is 2 and 1/2 min. They have no sound – and are NTSC standard DV clips. Youtube recompresses them and they look awful.

  These are the 3 methods I have used.

  1) MPEG4 (using H.264 720 x 480 30progressive deinterlaced) exported from Final Cut Pro 6 using Compressor. these files are perfect when I have uploaded to a private web with no compression but looked horrible on youtube

  2) Read on blogs to try this: FCP out with Compressor – same settings as above except using 640 x 480 H.264 as a .MOV file. Looked ok for first 10 seconds, then heavy pixellation

  3) Standard QT out of FCP – obvioulsy did not work

  I’ve been scouring the web and reading blogs and need to try to get to look just “okay” – not its looks horrible

  I also have flash – should I important a QT movie into Flash and export that way?

  How about this Compressor plugin that you can download – HQ Youtube setting?

  thanks, Jennifer West

  Chris Borjis replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
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  Chris Borjis

  May 8, 2009 at 12:09 am

  I’ve made a lot of beautiful videos up on you tube.

  your really close. 4:3 is 640×480 (widescreen should be 864×480)

  set the h.264 video bitrate for 2,000 kbps for video.

  set the Mpeg-4 AAC audio bitrate for 160kps.

  I use mpeg stream clip to do this. perfect results every time!
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  Jennifer West

  May 8, 2009 at 12:15 am

  Hi

  Thanks for the tip.

  Is the MPEG stream clip in Compressor as an option?

  Thanks, Jwest
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  Chris Borjis

  May 8, 2009 at 12:20 am

  mpeg stream clip is a free application.

  I don’t know how anyone could survive without!

  https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
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  Jennifer West

  May 8, 2009 at 12:49 am

  Thanks, do you deinterlace?
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  Jennifer West

  May 8, 2009 at 3:27 am

  I tried the MPEG program you sent the link for – and it looked better – should I be exporting a standard QT out of Final Cut to use – or an uncompressed QT?
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  Maurik De ridder

  May 8, 2009 at 7:40 am

  You could also try exporting from FCP as Photo JPEG (75% or 90%)
  And upload that to youtube (max 1GB)

  greetings Maurik de Ridder

  Freelance Editor

  PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5GHz, 6.5 GB RAM, Multibridge Pro,
  ATI Radeon X1900GT

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  Chris Borjis

  May 8, 2009 at 4:05 pm

  [Jennifer West] “Thanks, do you deinterlace?”

  only if the video is interlaced.
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  Chris Borjis

  May 8, 2009 at 4:05 pm

  just export a quicktime as is.

  that usually works since it ends up being a much smaller rez on you tube.

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