Compressing for YouTube

[Brian Gary]

Poppie,

I see that you referenced my old Ken Stone article that I wrote just about a year ago. It was sorely in need of an update, especially in the face of all the changes in both YouTube and Flash encoding (Moviestar). So, I took some time and revisited the whole “Encoding for YouTube” world and wrote a complete update to the article, which Ken posted today:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/you_tube_redux_gary.html

Brian

Apple Certified Trainer
Los Angeles — New Orleans

[Daniel Low]

Excellent, thanks for sharing that with us Brian.

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[Rob Grauert]

You could just stop using Youtube because it sucks and you can use Exposureroom.com

They don’t limit the size of your video and you may have as many videos as you want.

[Lulu Malmgren]

Brian, thank you so much for the updated article! It was sincerely a great help – you clarified what was important, which has basically helped me to just upload and then move on with more editing.

It actually looks like that any video uploaded now has an option for high or low quality (at the bottom right corner of the video), but I’m still tempted to lave the ‘hack/&fmt=18″ note next to at least one video, as a testament of my frantic forum/googling efforts.

Many thanks again,

Poppie

[Jacob Davis]

I wanted ping this thread because of the new availability of widescreen on youtube. In the past, Mr. Gary’s settings have always worked best for me. I was just wondering if the new widescreen availability requires needs a major overhaul to get optimal quality or if it is just a matter of adjusting the size when encoding in compressor. Also, I believe there are two high quality modes now. One that we get when we tack “&fmt=18” to the end of the addy and an even greater one when we tack on “&fmt=22”. Should we even bother encoding for the latter since it isn’t accessed by the “watch in high quality” button?

[Steve Booth]

Dear Brian your previous presets for youtube were of great help would it be possible for you to post one for the new widescreen format on YT.

I have tried many variations posted on various blogs and none work. I am filming in HDV 1080i60 and have FCP and compressor. I would like to upload in HD with the High Quality option. A new preset or step by step detailed walkthrough would be of great help.

Thanks, Steve

Steve Booth

[Brian Gary]

I’ve updated the article on Ken Stone’s site:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/you_tube_hd_gary.html

Thank you for the interest.

BG

Apple Certified Trainer
Los Angeles — New Orleans

[Daniel Low]

Excellent, thanks Brian

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[Daniel Low]

Brian, could you post your link as a new thread?

Thanks

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