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Compressing
Hi, all.
I need to compress some short documentaries for YouTube. They were shot with a Panasonic HDX900 camera shooting 720 60 in HD mode. The footage was captured into FCP 7 in full resolution as DVCPRO HD (720p60) at 59.94 fps. I edited it uncompressed.
To compress for YouTube, which video frame rate should I use: 59.94, 29.97, or 30? The YouTube Help page says to use 30 but I don’t know if that applies to my video. Which video frame rate will look better, move more smoothly–less jerking etc– and be in synch?
For audio, which rate do I use 44 kHz or 48 kHz? I think 48 because that is the audio rate listed in my clip info.
The size of my file for 3 minutes of compressed High Def video with a video frame rate of 59.94 is 432 mb.
The size of my file for 3 minutes of compressed high Def video with a video frame rate of 59.94 is 233 mb.
Thank you.
Meg
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1 Reply
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Megan,
The first question is how long is the documentary? Is it just 3 minutes? YouTube has a 15 minute duration max.
I’d encode the video with H.264.
Andrew Saliga
I/O Specialist/Assistant Editor
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com
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