very best way to compress for youtube

[Bret Williams]

No luck with the built in YouTube encoder/uploader?

[Ed Sayers]

thanks brett

just realised i posted in the FCPX forum

this project is in FCP7 and looking to compress having exported pro res

thoughts welcome…

ed

[Tony Brittan]

And if the actual sharing doesn’t work, you’ll find the converted file in the shared folder inside the project using finder. Then upload directly via a browser. Makes perfect files in my experience.

Tony Brittan
Island Shore Productions
Kill Devil Hills, NC

[Bret Williams]

When I open up the older compressor it also has a YouTube sharing function. Not sure how up to date those settings are though.

[Ed Sayers]

thanks again

do you have any opinion of mpeg streamclip?

ed

[Bill Davis]

Go to the Share menu.

Select YouTube.

If you’ve set up your YouTube account ID info and password properly – you click Share and a perfectly encoded version appears in your YouTube account.

Pretty much as simple as that.

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[Loren Risker]

Your settings look good and mpeg streamclip can get the job done.

One thing neither MPEG streamclip nor FCPX’s share to youtube doesn’t do is give you the option for fast start and compressed header. Compressor does.

Moov atom at the front of the file (Fast Start)

————-
OutOfFocus.TV – Original series, music videos, and entertainment for your couch.

[Claude Lyneis]

I usually use compressor but I tried the share to Youtube approach. The video came out with these settings.
HD 720p.mov
H.264, 1,280 x 720 (1,248 x 720)
Audoe AAC, 48000 Hz, Stereo (L R
Data Rate 10.34 Mbit/s
29.97 FPS

Note, the raw video was 1080i AVCHD. Of course the quicktime inspector does not show all the setting such as fast start for the internet.

[Bill Davis]

720p scales beautifully to all sorts of modern mobile platforms. It creates lovely iPad & iPhone retina display images and great looking android and even older style cel phone deployments.

So it’s become my default. I shoot and produce in 1080 – but I typically output everything to 720p 24 frame for delivery because it both compresses and scales so well across my most important distribution platform, and that’s the internet.

FWIW.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Julian Bowman]

FCP7 doesn’t have a share menu.