Uploading Videos to youtube in good quality...

Live the Dream · Post by **Live the Dream** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:36 pm

I'm having a bit of trouble uploading videos to youtube- I'm aware that youtube -recompresses your video- which would explain why my animation looks alot better in quicktime than it does on youtube...

However I've been playing around with the options and still cannot get a decent quality- and I also notice that when the camera moves in the video becomes fuzzy...

Is this normal?

Does anyone have any specific combination of settings they can suggest using?

Nolan Scott · Post by **Nolan Scott** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:10 am

Well, I would recommend creating your project in 1280 x 720, or higher.
25 or 30 frames per second that’s up to you, but stay with the same frame-rate
and resolution through your whole project. (personally I use 25 fps)

Export as QuickTime:
Resolution 1280 x 720 / Deinterlace
Compression H.264
Quality High / Multi-pass
Data-rate Automatic or at least 3000 kbits/sec
Sound AAC, Mono, 44.100 kHz, 64 kbps

Upload that movie to Youtube:
The initial display of your video will be still in normal quality, but now you have the option to click on the “watch in HD” button...
Example:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmXsELT8 ... re=channel

Cheers
Nolan

Live the Dream · Post by **Live the Dream** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:51 am

To be honest Nolan when i clikced on the link I couldn't find the "View in HD option" and your video looks every blurryer than mine! And I was completly dishearten...

BUT- then I found the little button/option and your animation looks truly gorgeous!

I'm gonna try uploading my little test and see how it goes- thankyou for giving me hope!!!

Live the Dream · Post by **Live the Dream** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:56 am

Now I've found the option to view the videos in high quality I can now find it under some of the videos I have lready uploaded!!!

I feel stupid- becuase I spent the whole of yesterday afternoon trying to work out how to upload decent quality videos!!!

Thanks again Nolan!

Live the Dream · Post by **Live the Dream** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:21 am

I seem to be having a problem- I changed all the options to what you suggested and when I try to upload the video I get this message- Failed (unable to convert video file)

Any ideas?

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:47 am

Maybe the file is too big?

You should read up on youtube's own tech specs about video formats.

Live the Dream · Post by **Live the Dream** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:57 am

Maybe.. but I'm only uploading a 3 sec animation...

Live the Dream · Post by **Live the Dream** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:18 pm

OH YEAH! I JUST DID IT!!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv8r0qZsxLc

Ok- what i did was-

I used 1290 X 720 (instead of 1280) as youtube prefers this for a HD video...

Also exported into a quicktime animation and instead of selecting H.264 I just used MPEG-4 Video and then- 25 FPS and 3000 KBytes/sec and quality high.

Nucleus · Post by **Nucleus** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:38 am

great post Live the Dream, I'm having trouble with this myself. hope your method works for me too.

Nucleus · Post by **Nucleus** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:15 pm

Works great! thanks for posting!