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YouTube Prep
I have been asked by a local ad agency to record a marketing presentation and prepare the recording for them to upload to YouTube. Not yet having ventured there (I knew that it just was a matter of time), I have several questions, please:
1) I plan to record the presentation (1.5-2 hours long) in HD, 1920X1080 60i. Is this the best acquisition format to use for eventual YouTube streaming?
2) What is the best Sony Vegas template to use in preparing this YouTube upload? Any special settings in the template?
3) I told them that it might be best to put my edited file on a 32GB thumb drive for them, but might I just upload the file to my Google Drive and give them the link?
I would appreciate advice ASAP, for believe it or not (e.g., not so unusual in our business), the event is taking place on Monday (less than 3 days and counting, PLUS I have a wedding to shoot tomorrow). What do they say–When it rains, it pours?
Thanks in advance to all!!
Rich Kutnick
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1) Rule of thumb is to shoot and edit in the highest resolution possible.
2) What version of Vegas? There’s as many opinions on this as there people uploading to YouTube.Here is an excellent tutorial by Jazzy the Dog for exporting HD material for YouTube or Vimeo.
But if time is short, here is how I made my YouTube template (with apologies to whomever I copied it from):
1080p in HD Quality for YouTube
Go to File, New.
In the window that opens, set the Width to 1920, Height to 1080. Also change the “Full-Resolution Rendering Quality” to Best. Leave everything else as it is.
Open the video/project you wish to render.
Go to File, Render As..
In the window that opens, on the “Save As Type” drop down menu select “Sony AVC” (*.mp4,*.m2ts,*avc,).
In the same window, on the “Template” drop down menu select “AVCHD 1920×1080-60i”.
Now click on the “Custom” button beside the template drop down menu.
In the window that pops up, copy the following settings exactly, and if there is something that you see that isn’t listed below, such as boxes to be ticked/unticked, leave them unticked.
VIDEO TAB:
Video Format: AVCHD
Frame Size: High definition (1920×1080)
Profile: High
Entropy Coding: Cabac
Frame Rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,0000
Bit Rate: 16,000,000
AUDIO TAB:
Audio Format: Dolby Digital Ac-3 Studio
Sample Rate (Hz): 48,000
Bit Rate (bps): 128,000
Audio Coding Mode: 2/0 (L,R)
SYSTEM:
Format: MPEG-2 transport stream (.m2ts)
PROJECT:
Video Rendering Quality: Best
Before exiting the window, we are going to go to the top where it says “Template:” and we are going to put in our own name for the template. Names suitable would be “YouTube HD Template”, “YouTube Temp”, “YouTube 1080p” etc.. then hit the save button (the button that is shaped like a floppy disk). Now you can click OK.Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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One more thing, depending on the type of YouTube account the client has, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to upload a 1.5 hour video. You may have to break it into 10-minute segments.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Thanks for the quick and thorough response, Stephen. I am up-to-date with Sony Vegas Pro 12, the latest revision. Good to know about the YouTube restrictions–I will check this out!
I also thought that I saw somewhere that SVG has pre-made Internet templates. Stephen, do you (or anyone else here) know if these are more-or-less suited to my situation than your wonderful solution?
Rich Kutnick
VIDEO IMPRESSIONS -
I’ve never tried them, but remember that all video hosting sited recompress your video no matter what you send to them.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Stephen Mann] “I’ve never tried them, but remember that all video hosting sited recompress your video no matter what you send to them.”
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I’ve often considered this as to when this happens and thought that what I would send would be messed with enough to be, well, counter-productive to what the pre-upload effort I’d be putting in. Is that true Stephen?
To this end, I’ve been using the Upload to YT from the Vegas Timeline. It’s really good, but how would I know what I’m missing?
So, to summarise Stephen:
A] How much does YT mess with my best efforts?
and…
B] Is the Upload to YT directly from the Vegas Timeline a better way to go? It does appear as a HD – or does it?
Interesting.
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
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Kudos to Graham and Stephen for some solid advice. I have recently used the “youtube 720” preset in Vegas 12 with great results. I mainly shoot live jazz and classical music, and post a lot to youtube. One thing I can point out is that sometimes the client will view from a less than optimal internet connection (like a smartphone) My cameras shoot at 1080i, but I find that 720p is a good compromise for both posting to youtube and providing an mp4 because of the reduced file size. Graham is totally correct in keeping things as high quality as possible. I have just found that when you are putting up client views on youtube, 1080 may be too big for the client’s system/connection. (I have even done 2 renders-one low res, one high res) Good luck this weekend.
Colin Mendez Morris
ArsMusica
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Whoops -I meant Stephen with the highest quality.
Colin Mendez Morris
ArsMusica
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If you upload to YouTube regularly, take a look at Video4YouTube (free extension)
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