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youtube problem
Using the Adobe media encoder in Ppro 2, I have tried and tried again to get my uploaded videos on youtube to look somewhat decent, but everytime I upload a video it looks terrible. I have tried a number of different settings, divx, xvid, and the suggested settings by youtube only to get the same result time and time again. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help,
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Someone suggested (was it you Steven?) trying a .WMV export.
Vince
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could you give us a link to a good quality video on you tube? i havent seen any. Everything you upload there, is very very compressed. i mean, what is good wuality for you?
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youtube is going to recompress whatever file you upload and ruin the quality in the name of smaller bandwidth.
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According to one guy who has some nice videos posted, the secret is to use WMV at 1024K. Another fellow said that sharpening the edges helps, as well as oversaturating the video. Since YouTube seems to desaturate it a bit, that makes sense.
I still have not found the magic formula, but there is one. I have seen some really great videos on YouTube. Search on “Mr. Deity” and look at the clean white text on a black background. Look at the clean video. If I could do that, I would be very happy.
Steven
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Search for “takao tanabe” Are the titles, credits and the title image clear enough? This was compressed at wmv9 512 2 pas 320×240 from Ppro 1.0 The file is smaller than 1024, the render faster, the upload faster, but in the end, as long as you don’t exceed the youtube file maximums, either will work.
The same file uploaded to video.google does not look as good – obviously something in their compression. Furthermore, Google will scale the image to fit the browser so it gets worse when the browser is full screen. youtube does not scale so it stays sharp looking. The titles in particlar are less sharp.
Interestingly, since Google lists youtube videos, maybe there is less point in uploading to both.
The resulting flash video file from the browser cache for this 8 minute video was 18.2 mb for youtube, 18.8 mb for Google. The original wmv file was 35 mb, so there was a fair amount of recompression.
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