How to get the best quality on YouTube?

DavidWard

DavidWard

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Hi guys!

I just found this forum recently and I was hoping if you guys can help me. I am trying to upload a video on to YouTube, but the dimensions are too small and it doesn't fill the whole entire video screen.

I shot the footage with my HD Canon HF10 camera. I connected the SD card to my laptop and and I converted the files to AVI because they were originally MTS files and they can't be imported into Final Cut Pro.

After converting the video files in Toast Titanium to avi and then imported the converted clips in Final Cut.

After hours of editing, I was finished. I exported the video to MOV, but YouTube doesn't support this format. So instead, I tried using QuickTime Conversion and I converted it to AVI, but the quality is worse.

I don't really understand how people have HD videos on YouTube. My video camera is HD.

What are the best file extensions are the best for better quality on YouTube.

Thanks Guys!
 
The quality is usually in resolution / bit rate. If you're going strictly just HD go with 1280 x 720 and I'd play around with the bit rate. Higher bit rate usually means a bigger size of file too so yeah play around with the settings.

Currently I'm using 1280x720 I think 8M bit rate and format is WMV. Quality seems pretty good.
 
NaturalPortman said:
The quality is usually in resolution / bit rate. If you're going strictly just HD go with 1280 x 720 and I'd play around with the bit rate. Higher bit rate usually means a bigger size of file too so yeah play around with the settings.

Currently I'm using 1280x720 I think 8M bit rate and format is WMV. Quality seems pretty good.
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How do I change the bit rate in Final Cut Pro?
 
I'm surprised, all my videos are .mov's once i've exported them in imovie, and I always export them at 720p (HD quality) :)
umm only thing i can think of atm, is sometimes when you upload movies, they reduce the quality to reduce the file size and so make processing it etc faster, imovie does that to mine, i have to tell it NO lol.
 
NaturalPortman said:
err.. I use sony vegas pro so I can't help you with that. But to optimize my settings I searched youtube and there's tons of great videos to help you out.
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I prefer to use Sony Vegas too, but since I have a Macbook, I've been using Final Cut.

Is there anyway I can download Sony Vegas to my Mac, or is it just for Windows?
 
I usually upload in 1920x1080 with 1080p quicktime - h.264 highest quality settings in square pixels and that usually works for me :p
 
If you have Adobe Media Encoder, try encoding files with the default YouTube 720p preset, but edit the preset and change it to 2 pass and change the min bitrate to 5Mbps and max to 8Mbps. You should get high quality and a small file size (I can compress 20 minutes into about 500MB using this, with excellent 720p quality).
 
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