Help - Format choice for making movie

roadstar wrote on 11/24/2011, 1:47 AM

I am having zero luck finding a good format to render my movie. I have tried a dozen formats with no luck and wasted a lot of time. I'm working with HD 1920 video from my camcorder. I want the highest format for HD youtube viewing (and computer viewing as well). I have tried Mainconcept, Sony, mpg, mp4, mt2 etc.....the movies I render do not open in Windows Media Player and mp4 plays video but no audio. Mostly I get a "cannot open file" message.
After selecting "Save file to hard drive" in the Make Movie window, exactly what format should I choose from the list of a hundred choices (eliminating the obvious ones). Again, my goal is HD youtube viewing. Please tell me which format to select.
Thanks for any help!

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/24/2011, 8:52 AM

These specs will give you a very nice looking video. However, do note that whatever you put up, YouTube is going to crappify in the name of bandwith. But this should get you pretty close.

Use Make Movie/To Hard Drive.

Under the Main Concept AVC tab, select Apple iPad/iPhone4 720p30 option.

musicvid10 wrote on 11/24/2011, 9:13 AM

You may find our "Vegas to Youtube" tutorial of interest.
1080 HD is generally not the best choice from a playability perspective.
Steve is correct that Youtube will always re-encode, so beyond a point you won't get better results no matter how you render.

roadstar wrote on 11/24/2011, 11:45 PM

Thanks for the format. I'm using it. I changed a couple of template settings to match the suggestions in the video mentioned. I also do the audio at 320.

I still can't view the rendered videos in Windows Media Player (win xp). I get codec error messages. So I can't actually watch them (without VLC player or something). Frustrating. They seem to play in windows 7 though.

Any suggestion how I can get windows media player to play these mainconcept files? I've tried installing codecs before but with no luck. Windows media player also play some mpg files with no audio. Drives me crazy.
But I'll use this 720 format for youtube. Thanks!