How to get the best quality on YouTube?

[davion100]

1080p is taking way too much time and effort, it's not worth it, 720p is just great.

 

[Music Videos]

Ill be trying out these tips, Ive always been dissapointed with the compression settings I have chosen from premier.

 

[DeantheDinosauce]

Can you possibly export directly into AVI? Or is FCP strictly MOV? I've never used Final Cut Pro before.

Although 1080p is great, I'd recommend going with 720p, it's a lot less hassle and a lot easier to handle.

 

[Jefff Thompson]

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!

You can export it to h.264 in FCP which will give you an .mp4 file. The problem you are having is each time you encode from one format to another you are losing quality because each one is compressing the image and subtracting quality. And I am not sure why you can't import the MTS file directly. Have you tried the import from Camera option? I import files directly from my Sony FS100 and encode them with h.264 in 108op with no issues. Let me know if you have more questions.

 

[CollapsRanger]

720p Sony Vegas Pro 12