YouTube Quality of video

YokeUP wrote on 8/4/2007, 9:46 AM

I need some help... I have been rendering videos for YouTube and when I pick the 3M bit rate, render mode, My file is over 100M, but when I choose the 512 setting it drops the file size down to under 20,000.... which is good, but the quality of the video is not so hot.

How do I set the custom rendering choices to go somewhere inbetween and have good quality video etc... under the 100M limit for YouTube?

Thanks for all the help.

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 8/4/2007, 2:18 PM

I blogged about it with a guide a few weeks ago:
http://eugenia.blogsome.com/2007/07/23/how-to-upload-the-right-clip-on-video-sharing-sites/

IRH wrote on 8/4/2007, 8:32 PM

YokeUP

Here are some various resources that might help you. The first one in particular is sworn by by some Vegas users, although admittedly I haven't been able to get the same results (which I'm still investigating). It (or one of the others) might help:

http://www.squidoo.com/youtuberight/

http://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_you_tube.html

Ian.

MSmart wrote on 8/4/2007, 11:37 PM

While fishing around the Digital Juice forum, a recent thread had a link to THIS site. While it talks about Compressor, I believe the settings mentioned can be used in VMS with custom settings. The only thing I didn't see was a match for AAC in the Audio tab.

I hope at the very least, it gives you something additional to think about.

ADB wrote on 8/6/2007, 5:38 PM

What would be the best VMS alternative to the PhotoJPEG recommended in this article ? AVI with a DV codec perhaps ?

ADB wrote on 8/8/2007, 9:57 PM

I've found that rendering as a PhotoJPEG MOV and uploading to youtube gives a much better quality than an uploaded high quality wmv, as the article suggests.

MSmart wrote on 8/9/2007, 12:11 AM

Super!! What audio settings did you use?

ADB wrote on 8/9/2007, 12:52 PM

I haven't looked at audio yet ... getting good video on youtube has been challenging enough.

YokeUP wrote on 8/14/2007, 2:54 AM

Thanks for all the help everybody, I really appreciate it.

ADB wrote on 8/14/2007, 4:04 PM

I've also tried the recommended sharpening filter and slight oversaturation ... these also definitely help the appearance on youtube.

YokeUP wrote on 8/15/2007, 1:42 PM

I used these settings and the results were great! Thank you. Much appreciated.

MSmart wrote on 8/15/2007, 5:08 PM

Just so we're all clear, which settings exactly? I'm glad to hear it worked for you.

Care to post a link to your video?