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HELP! HD on YouTube
I shot a 30 second ad for a contest with HVX-200. it is 960×720 (true:1280×720). Everything is fine except when i load it onto youtube, the image becomes drastically splotchy. I know that it will not exactly be HD but ive seen much better quality on youtube than this.
Does anyone know proper settings that help maintain as much quality as possible on youtube for HD?
One other thing that may be of assisance…
on one attempt at loading the 30 second ad onto youtube i accidently left a small clip on the timeline at the 2:00 marker before exporting, so it loaded onto youtube as a 2 minute clip. However, the clip HAS TO BE 30 seconds for the contest. The odd thing is, with the 2 minute clip the quality was far better than I ever got before it was that long. It looked great. I used the same export settings as the 2 minute clip for anotehr 30 second attempt, which turned out horribly splotchy again. I then took the 2:00 clip and trimmed it to 30 seconds in quicktime pro, saved it, loaded it onto youtube, but still somehow it became splotchy. How can this be possible? I cannot allow myself to load crap for this contest after having put so much work into it. Can anyone help? How can i best retain quality in HD for youtube?
thanks,
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In my experience, the best thing to do is follow YouTube’s advice to the letter. You can read this in the help files. I think the link is called something like ‘How to get best quality videos.’
When you upload to YouTube, your files are recompressed (to flash .flv I think.) So my approach is not to make too much work for the YouTube compressors. With this is in mind, stick to the 320×240 frame size and 30fps if you can. I’ve submitted widescreen material letterboxed into 320×240 just to make sure my aspect ratio was maintained.
Good luck.
W
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[Will MacNeil] ”
When you upload to YouTube, your files are recompressed (to flash .flv I think.)”And very soon they are making the transition to H.264 which will make it nice for all of us. I’m betting Compressor will add a “youtube” preset just like we have AppleTV and iPod presets now.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
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[walter biscardi] “And very soon they are making the transition to H.264 which will make it nice for all of us. I’m betting Compressor will add a “youtube” preset just like we have AppleTV and iPod presets now.”
Cool! I didn’t know that. Would I be right in assuming that’ll be more pixels too?
I wonder if the fine folks at Google/YouTube would let us upload pre-compressed files so we can control the look of the final output.
W
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[Will MacNeil] ”
Cool! I didn’t know that. Would I be right in assuming that’ll be more pixels too?”Not sure. It’s all a part of AppleTV supporting YouTube natively. YouTube is switching completely over to H.264.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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If they change over to H.264, what will it play in? QT player? That seems unlikely. The beauty of Flash is that the player can be incorporated into the web site design, and the clips aren’t easily downloadable for later playback (or stealing). Can someone substantiate this?
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[Eric Jurgenson] ” the clips aren’t easily downloadable for later playback (or stealing). “
It is easy to grab a flash from a web site.
In safari all you need to do is from the menu bar choose window, and then activity. This shows a list of every element of the page that loads up. Usually it is the largest file and is still in the process of downloading. Double click on that file and it starts to download it.
And there are many programs that will convert it to a QT file for you.
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[Eric Jurgenson] “Can someone substantiate this?”
Article Link:
https://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-exec-details-160gb-apple-tv-youtube-h264-deal/Quote from article:
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[walter biscardi] “Quote from article:
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[Bill Dewald] “Hmm… does this mean that they’re abandoning Flash? Or just re-encoding their material to offer it on AppleTV – similar to how it’s on Vcast..”
From this and other articles I’ve read, YouTube is converting to the H.264 format so to me that says they are abandoning Flash. I won’t mind as I have not had any success getting a file to look decent on YouTube after they’ve recompressed it. I’ve had some really nice H.264 files that are only 9MB in size got all to heck when I try to upload to YouTube.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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