[Jerry Cast]

Hi George,
Ok, can’t wait to take a look now.

Also, I have a personal website that I also want to have the same video on.

I’m afraid if I just link to You Tube, visitors might leave my site and then not come back if something else on You Tube catches thier eye after my video stops playing.

In the past, I’ve had Windows Media Player video on my site, but now with Flash, is it better to use that? I tried encoding to Flash from Encore and WME in Premier, but the .flv files don’t play and it says I need to install the player to my site, but I’m really lost here.

So, to recap, my goal is to get the best video quality vs “amount of time the viewer has to wait for the video”, on my site.

Thanks.

[Jerry Cast]

Ok, thanks.

So you mean, choose H.264, and there will be available settings like those you describe?

I had picked VBR, so I’ll try the CBR.

Also, the bit rate goes from 1 – 9? Are you saying 1000 is the setting for 10?

Finally, I didn’t know I could set 1280 X 720 for a standard definition video.

Thanks again.

[Jerry Cast]

Ok, so I looked carefully at the H.264 codec in Premier Pro CS3 Media Encoder.

My file is now a 1.8 gig Microsoft DV .avi. (as opposed to the ucompressed .avi I was trying to start with).

Using the You Tube choice in the Media Encoder, makes the file about 57 megs.

Using the NTSC preset made it 190 megs, and when I boosted the bit rate and some other stuff, it balloned to about 450 megs.

I figured that the NTSC exported file would be better to upload to You Tube as I figured it’s better. And then let You Tube encode it, rather than encoding it myself with the You Tube option.

Does it matter? Will be final quality when it plays on You Tube be the same?

Thanks.

[Jerry Cast]

Thanks Roberto,

I’ll try some different settings with H.264 and see what happens.

Thanks again.

[Jerry Cast]

Thanks Michael,

I have Prem Pro CS3, but purchased that other thing because You Tube said they like the Mpeg 4 from an ucompressed .avi for best quality (I read this on thier site). I would up not seeing an option to export Mpeg 4 in this cheap program, and tried for Mpeg 2 and that didn’t work because it probably can’t deal with an uncompressed .avi as it works with a regular Microsoft DV .avi.

So, you are saying, right from Prem Pro, just use the media encoder and pick H.264, and also choose 1280 X 720, even though this is Standard Def video?

Ok, thanks, I’ll give it a try.

[Jerry Cast]

Roberto,

Thank you, I’ll try it. Your video looks pretty clear on your website. It looks like you linked to You Tube, so I guess your visitors are actually watching a You Tube video streaming from thier site and not actually streaming from your site, right?

I’m trying to figure out the best encoding (besides Windows Media Player) for my own personal site too.

Thanks again.

Jim

[Jerry Cast]

Just to add:

I purchased Magic Video Converter as “You Tube” suggested, so that I could take this 18 gig, uncompressed .avi and covert it to Mpeg 4 which they said they prefer.

After using the program, I only saw an option for Mpeg 2, so I tried that, but it won’t work with my .avi. I tried other .avi’s and it worked, so it must be either the size of the .avi, or, that’s it’s unmcompressed.

Thier tech support sent me an automated, “form” email without reading the specs I gave them already.

My goal is to get this video on You Tube in the highest quality possible, AND, to get this video on my own personal website, also at the highest quality possible, but am still lost in this process.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Jim