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FCP exporting for YouTube
Hello,
I hope this is the right section where to post this (if not I would appreciate if someone could direct me to the right one).
I’ve uploaded a video to YouTube and I noticed that there’s a quite big difference between the standard quality and the “watch in high quality” option. In my case the standard quality looks pretty bad (while I see that most of the videos on YouTube have no such a difference).
What I uploaded the first time was a video 960×540 exported from FCP using quick time conversion with codec H264 (about 800MB), which looked great when playback on my computer.
Thinking that the problem was in the original video I recaptured all the footage in HD and I exported another video as 1280×720 (again with quick time conversion H264). The result has been again a pretty bad standard quality and “watch in HD” which looks ok.
Can anyone figure out what I’m doing wrong?
There’s something which is not clear yet when the second time I captured the footage in HD through iMovie I used the option capture as 1920×1080 while in final cut the footage properties show to be 1440×1080 (can this have anything to do?)Here’s are the two links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQUDYlA13LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHc5SW71yk&feature=channel
Any help will be highly appreciated!! Thank you!
Gennaro
Gennaro
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2 Replies
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The compression forum has what you need. Search “YouTube” and you’ll find plenty of advice.
The short version is YouTube runs your videos through their own compression software. It can be trial and error to get the best results.
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also see kenstone.net for the definitive explanations for your FCP workflow to YouTube.
DV Event magazine recently published an article by compression überwonk Jan Ozer on how to get the best video images up on some of the other video sites besides YouTube.
bogiesan
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