getting your hdv footage to look good in myspace & youtube

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africanmarty

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what the best settings ? i mean they only accept 100mb uploads... when i upload a 100mb file i keep it 1920 x 1080 but use xvid codec to make it 100mb.. wich looks pretty good as a raw file, but when viewed on myspace or youtube.. mmm not so good :( whats the best setting to make a good 320 x 240 res vid ( wich is the size viewed on those sites i think ) ? i think i read that using a quicktime format you can get good results but i cant find that thread... anyone who whats best method of doing this ? or where that thread is ? thanks - marty.
 
i'd also like to know the answer to this. also, does anyone have a video up on myspace or youtube that we could preview and see how it looks?
 
QT video codec H.264

QT video codec H.264

Marty,
You need to use QT video codec H.264, which delivers stunning quality at remarkably low data rates.
 
Kwan said:
Marty,
You need to use QT video codec H.264, which delivers stunning quality at remarkably low data rates.
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thanks i'll be sure to give it ago, but since hv20 films at a 16:9.. 320x240 is 4:3 so it would look squashed woudnt it ?? so i should use the h.264 on the 1920x1080 files ?
 
africanmarty said:
thanks i'll be sure to give it ago, but since hv20 films at a 16:9.. 320x240 is 4:3 so it would look squashed woudnt it ?? so i should use the h.264 on the 1920x1080 files ?
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just export H.264 at 240x428 (or whatever size gives a 1.78 ratio)
I think this was covered on other threads too.

You can dial down the bitrate a lot, and reduce the number of keyframes and still get some pretty nice results.
 
I tend to find that the best looking webvideos are usually 15fps or so just because half the frames=double the quality... theoretically. Though really I think YouTube and Myspace suck for showing videos, Divx.com's stage6 is the way forward.
 
Here's a nice article from the fab Ken Stone's site.

Read or scroll down the page to where it deals with 16:9. You need to use the letterbox filter in a 4:3 screen. Also, the sharpen filter is usable.

It's a great article with lots of tips, though I think using photo-jpeg and making it progressive (tips he suggests) are too time consuming. I hung with H.264.

My short video on youtube, "I'll Be Loving You" is fairly accurate 16:9, there was grain in low-light so it's a little rough to begin with.

It's here: http://youtube.com/profile?user=elmerlang

Don't know why the icon for the flick is so fuzzy...

Some of my latest movies, though 4:3 were made with his tips, the early ones, no.


best,
elmer
 
watched the fish video

if only youtube could be as good

what setting did you use ? did you buy the divx pro codec
 
BARYE said:
watched the fish video

if only youtube could be as good

what setting did you use ? did you buy the divx pro codec
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no i used the dr.divx app (free) to convert it for me that came bundled with divx6.6
 
It's been said that if you are using the Flash 7 Sorenson Spark codec, you can upload an FLV file under 100MB direct to Youtube and they won't recompress it.
I haven't tried this, but if somebody else is willing to test it, I'd like to see the results.
 
Digigenic said:
It's been said that if you are using the Flash 7 Sorenson Spark codec, you can upload an FLV file under 100MB direct to Youtube and they won't recompress it.
I haven't tried this, but if somebody else is willing to test it, I'd like to see the results.
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any takers ?
 
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