How to encode for You Tube?

[Mikkell Khan]

1280×720
Bitrate: 1000
CBR

This will put your movies at a 100-120MB file and look amazing on youtube.

Check out the videos on the channel StayWellFireyourDoctor on youtube. I did that for the small company. Full HD.

Mikkell Khan
Director
Diamond Films Ltd. (Trinidad and Tobago)

[Jerry Cast]

Ok, thanks.

So you mean, choose H.264, and there will be available settings like those you describe?

I had picked VBR, so I’ll try the CBR.

Also, the bit rate goes from 1 – 9? Are you saying 1000 is the setting for 10?

Finally, I didn’t know I could set 1280 X 720 for a standard definition video.

Thanks again.

[George Socka]

My bit rate slider – CS3, goes to 20 which is 20 megabits per second. A standard definition DVD is about 5 – 7 megabits per second. HDV is 25 megabits per second. Sony EX is 35 megabits per second. To my humble eye, 2 – 3 megabits per second looks good for a talking head, nedium motion scene. 9 minutes of HDV is 2 gigabytes. 9 miutes at my rate is 140 megabytes.

I think that standard def widescreen uprezzed to 1280×720 by AME looks pretty darn god, especially considering that youtube is going to squish it down again anyway.

George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com

[Jerry Cast]

Hi George,
Ok, can’t wait to take a look now.

Also, I have a personal website that I also want to have the same video on.

I’m afraid if I just link to You Tube, visitors might leave my site and then not come back if something else on You Tube catches thier eye after my video stops playing.

In the past, I’ve had Windows Media Player video on my site, but now with Flash, is it better to use that? I tried encoding to Flash from Encore and WME in Premier, but the .flv files don’t play and it says I need to install the player to my site, but I’m really lost here.

So, to recap, my goal is to get the best video quality vs “amount of time the viewer has to wait for the video”, on my site.

Thanks.

[George Socka]

jwplayer is free on teh web, but I think it phones home. Maybe someone can confirm that.

Orgewise it is 5 mouseclicks in Dreamveaver to generate a custom player with flvplayback or media playback

George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com

[Mikkell Khan]

Oh sorry. The format is an FLV file. That’s how I saved it to get those file sizes. The encoding process can take a while though but very much worth it.

Mikkell Khan
Director
Diamond Films Ltd. (Trinidad and Tobago)