very best way to compress for youtube

[Ricky Dominguez]

I use Larry Jordan tutorial and it works:

Compressing for YouTube – Final Cut tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP-IjQjOHb0

Ricky Dominguez
Luna Films
Puerto Rico

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[Ed Sayers]

hi all

thanks for all your comments

so it looks like we will gor for this:

exporting from fcp7 at original settings (prores etc)

use latest version of compressor (4.0.7) to make
an mp4 file that’s h264
with youtube’s highest acceptable bit rate (50000kb!)
at full 1920×1080. (which is client specification, though point-taken about 720, thanks).
with AAC stereo audio at appropriate bit rate as per YT guidelines.(linked above in my first post)

now it’s just a question of whether to use either of these compressor streaming options:
fast start
or
fast start – compressed header

larry jordan’s clip doesn’t say to do this.

doesn’t YT make this happen anyway? when they re-compress (AS THEY DO!) ?

OR…
is it better to do it in compressor ourselves so YT has less work to do?

– anyone work at google/YT??

we aim to test both on private YT links but upload times are long!

thanks

e