Youtube uploading

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Youtube uploading

Posted by Jake Green on May 9, 2014 at 5:23 am

Hi Everyone,

I am relatively new on the whole uploading to youtube thing so I was wondering if I could get some advice from you.

I know that youtube allows 2gb uploads but what I haven’t been able to find is a more final conclusion on size of files to upload to youtube.

Sounds like a pretty broad question doesn’t it but here I go trying to explain where I am at:

I shoot with a canon XA20, fantastic camera don’t let anyone tell you any different, the files are AVCHD at 1080p at either 24 of 50fps.

Minute per minute what file size should I be making these final compositions?

I edit in premier cc and most of the time just pick the youtube setting and match the source but I feel this may the wrong way to go.

I am not doing anything with really fancy effects or anything like that, titles, cross dissolves and snappy cutting thats all.

For example lets say I have a 4 minute final clip full 1080P? Can someone give me a range on what size that should be between?

Again I know it is a broad question but if I want the highest quality possible without a file size that will take a million years to upload where should I aim?

Thanks in advance for any feedback,
Jake

P.S. Personal opinions welcome, don’t feel like you have to tow the company line, if something works well for you I would love to know tried and true techniques and if you have any links you would like to share that would be very helpful.

Ivan Myles replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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Ivan Myles
May 9, 2014 at 11:23 am

[Jake Green] “.. lets say I have a 4 minute final clip full 1080P? Can someone give me a range on what size that should be between?”

Here are my guidelines for H.264 bitrates in bits/pixel:

0.07 bpp – minimum quality for online streaming (YouTube, Vimeo)
0.12 bpp – Apple standard for online streaming
0.20 bpp – upper limit for online streaming
0.40 bpp – good quality local viewing or further compression
0.70 bpp – high quality local viewing (DVD/Blu-ray)

For online submission and second transcode I recommend 0.2-0.4 bpp H.264, or about 10-20 Mbps for 1080p at 24-25 fps. This correlates with Vimeo’s compression guidelines.

Therefore at 10-20 Mbps a 4 minute video stream would be 300-600MB.

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