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Maximum quality Youtube video
Hi there,
I’m new to FCP and have just made an 8min video of my band.
It’s in 4:3 DV PAL format. I’d like to export it at the maximum quality for youtube.
So, I exported it using quicktime conversion to MPEG4, video 200,000 bps, audio 320kbs, keeping the original screen size.. and this file plays fine on my computer and looks / sounds great.
However, when I try to upload it to youtube I always get an error message, saying it failed.
The file is about 1.3GB, so is within the 2G limit.What do you think might be wrong? I’m currently trying lower bitrate sizes but FCP takes ages to process it so can’t say yet if it’s this yet.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Andy
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2 Replies
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I’ve had great luck with the H.264 codec. I use compressor to compress it. I set the quality high to around 10,000 or so. It looks great.
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Andy,
Export settings are definitely tricky, and trial and error will always help you get a better understanding of how it all works.
But I would think that you’re settings are way too high. You don’t need a 1+ gig file if you’re final video is 8 minutes long, in SD format.
Try this:
Export using QT convers
quality: high
keyframes: auto / or 30 / or 24 for PAL i guess
audio: probably just leave it, or you can change to aac and leave the rate, or go to 96, 128, etctry that, see how it looks/sounds, and then adjust things accordingly. that format should upload to youtube great. the keyframes will adjust the filesize a lot, but i export things at 60 or 120 keyframes and they can still look good.
set your in and out points in a 20 second section of your video, then start exporting and keeping track of what settings you used, then you can compare them all to each other, then you should know what looks good for you!
Cheers,
Adam Keyes
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