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How to render the highest quality 720p video for YouTube?
Okay, so I’ve been using Premiere Pro CS4 for a little while now, but have never had to render anything higher quality than NTSC DV until now.
What I need is a crisp quality 1280 by 720 video.
I’ve tried many formats. A .mov file would be prefered, but Media Encoder OR Premiere’s Export function won’t let me do a high quality .mov file.
I’ve tried H.264 .mp4 format… it sort of worked, but made some of the shots have lines in them.
I’ve also tried .wmv, which made everything look like crap. I did try an .avi, which worked well, but it was at 720 by 480 (which I need it bigger than that to be a true 720p widescreen hi-def for YouTube)…
Can anyone help, please? And quickly, I’m already a couple days late with this.
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4 Replies
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Hi Jake,
H.264 is what YouTube uses, so while it will be re-compressed, and high quality source should be all you need. For 720P, I would start with 8Mb/s VBR and see what you get. High motion footage is never friendly to compression for the web.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I have a bad feeling that the clips I have that are 20 by 480 won’t be able to be better quality at 1280 by 720… however, I made an .avi file at 720 by 480, which was fine until there were text files that came out pixelated…
I’m losing my mind over this. It can be at 480p for youtube because the producer says it’s okay, as long as I can make the text look better.
P.S. I made the text in Premiere Pro.
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Jake- if your clips are 720×480 they are not going to get any better than that, but to answer the question:
I have been exporting my 1920×1080 footage to MPEG2 at 1280×720. The files are a pretty managable size and the quality is stellar. While i havent tried others like H.264, this works for me so i stick with it.
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Hey Tom, thanks to both you and Vince.
H.264 did work using some custom tweaking with the normal preset.
Still, thanks to both of you for your help 😀
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