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09/09/2010 15:26:18

Frendor
Frendor
Posts: 27 		How does Youtube work?


No seriously, its evident that most up-loaders don't have a clue (Me included) and the vids on YouTube showing how its done also don't have a clue!( I'm talking wrong aspect ratio's etc. etc.) Anyway, I just spent the last hour on Youtube looking at such vids and the norm seems to be 'select file' hit 'upload'. Well that wont to at all!


You see I've just spent the last few weeks learning the basics of Muvizu and Première Pro and I don't want to totally mess it up now!(whether the movie is rubbish or not is another thing) So I want to get the uploading correct, what I mean is I want to get the format right, if possible I don't want Youtube to do any further encoding.


So...I have two formats of the same little movie, one's H264 (Mp4) 1280x720 and the others FLV/F4V 1280x720 both are around 125MB and a tad under 3 minutes, I'm pretty sure the H264 (mp4) is on the right tracks but I'm not sure about FLV/F4V.


The question is does anybody know the correct formula for up-loading HD vids to YouTube?


Has always thanks for your help.


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09/09/2010 16:04:06

davidbowman2001
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Posts: 23 		Have you seen this ?

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=132460
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09/09/2010 16:05:41

barrys
barrys
Posts: 102 		Hi

I know a little bit about it, but not much. Anyway, in a nutshell:

-Stick to widescreen (16:9 format)
-Upload the highest resolution possible. youTube prefers 1280x720 or 1920x1080
-Don't add your own black bars to simulate widescreen. youTube auto-detects your resolution and adds its own if necessary.
-Upload the best quality video you have. Try to limit the number of times you compress a video. For a start this means getting a VERY good quality video out of Muvizu (try lossless JPEG)

-youTube will also struggle with interlaced movies. Stick to full frames. So 1080i is bad, 1080p is good, as is 720p

-It's generally accepted that MPEG4 files (of which there are many flavours: DIVX, XVID, MOV, WMV) offer the best quality vs file size. You get a high quality movie for a small file size.

-I think it prefers 30 frames per second, but I'm not sure




em, that's it I think




Barry
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09/09/2010 16:06:30

barrys
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Posts: 102 		http://www.ifunia.com/youtube-column/best-youtube-video-format.html
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10/09/2010 10:43:31

Frendor
Frendor
Posts: 27 		Two very useful sites there, thanks again.

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