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Optomizing video for Youtube
Can anyone tell me the best settings for outputting my video for Youtube? I have used Apple Compressor and Sorenson Squeeze using a variety of settings, including those recommended by Youtube, and always get the same results. The video looks good before I upload it, but once its up on Youtube it looks like crap. My files are too big to put up uncompressed as Youtube restricts the size to 100MB.
I wonder if the problem might have something to do with my source video, I use a SONY DSC-M2 MP4 video camera. Could this be the problem? I use lots of clips from TV in my show that are captured using MINIDV and there quality is effected too, so it appears to me that the problem isn’t with the source, but with my compression settings.
Here is a link to my most recent video so you can see what I am talking about:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j4Cgy8tzw48
And here are the settings I used in Compressor:
Name: Youtube
Description: H.264 for LANs/Intranets
File Extension: mp4
Estimated file size: 39.53 MB
Audio Encoder
Format: MPEG4
Sample Rate: 44.100kHz
Channels: 2
Bits Per Sample: 16
AAC encoder quality: high
Video Encoder
Format: MPEG4
Width: 320
Height: 240
Pixel aspect ratio: default
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls: Off
ISMA Profile: 0
Constant bit rate: 2048 (Kbps) -
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The weak link is the YouTube RE-compression on their end,
All you need to do to check this is to send a 5 second high-rez test clip and look at what happens to it,YouTube does offer a much higher level of clip storage if you sign up and pay for the service,
That’s why some of the videos you see (mostly from networks and movie companies) look so much better. -
Mark,
Nice vid – I dig it 🙂
It’s about the quality I would expect from youTube. The only thing you can do is create the highest quality file you can at your end – the cleaner the source, the cleaner your youTube recompression will be. I’ve uploaded a few different sources to my youTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/outpostpps and the results vary a little, but by and large you are dealing with some massive crunching at the youTube end when you upload.
Keep up the good work.
Enzo Tedeschi
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Hey guys thanks for your help.
I have discovered that part of the problem is with the video that I started with. It didn’t show up on my moniters, but when I checked at work, my source file doesn’t look so hot. I used Sony’s DSCM2 MP4 camera to make the show and the camera doesn’t give as good a picture as I thought.
Mark
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