Best Settings For YouTube

Dave wrote on 12/16/2007, 9:09 PM

Hey,

After a lot of experimentation, I have found settings that work best for me when posting videos on YouTube. I figured I'd share them with the community here.

For reference, I'm shooting DV at 720 x 480 resolution.
I'm using Vegas Movie Studio 7.

Render files in WMV9 format
Size: 640 x 480
In the "Custom" menu choose the following:

Project Tab:
Video Rendering Quality: Best

Audio Tab:
Mode: CBR
Format: Windows Media Video 9.1
Attributes: 128kbps, 44KHz Stereo

Video Tab:
Image Size: DVD Quality 640 x 480
Video Smoothness: Sharpest

Bit rate: Internet/LAN: 3M

There are other options as well, but for those not mentioned here, I used the default settings.

I hope this is helpful to someone....

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 12/16/2007, 11:10 PM

3mbps is a lot of bandwidth and slow re-encoding for something that's going to be re-encoded at 300kbps. I'd suggest the default PSP Full screen template that exists on Platinum. In terms of quality is good enough at 480x270 at 1mbps.

dibbkd wrote on 12/17/2007, 7:01 PM

Keep in mind that YouTube keeps the video you upload in it's raw format. One day, when they start having higher quality videos, it's very likely they will re-encode your video to a higher resolution than what they allow now.

ie: you upload a 720x480 3Mbps video now, youtube shows it as 320x240 384kbps. In the future, they will show it in the resolution you uploaded it as.

In other words, I personally upload videos with as high a res I can.