Going nuts with Vegas rendering and YouTube

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DClarke

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I need some direction as to the best settings for HD on YouTube.

I would like to use MPEG-2 unless it's a bad choice.
What I'm reading does not make sense compared to what YT is asking for in files.

Source files are Canon AVC/HD 1080-60i 1920x1080

My work flow is to post for YouTube and then burn to DVD.

Again, any direction would be great!

Blessings,
David
 
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Ok I just watched that video, NOT impressed…

He says WMV is not as clear as H.264…. Bullshi*, I have screen shot after screen shot proving they are equally clear, sharp, edges defined ETC. There are other slight color differences but that's all I can see.

They guy also makes no mention of aspect ratio. I wonder how many people have squashed their videos or have unnecessary black bars because of him… Then he says, yea go ahead and render your Non HD video in HD! Yea that will make it look better! But hey, it will have that all important “HD” option when people go to play it right?

He also recommends Min and Max bit rate of 2-4 MBPS. If you can find the video titled something along the lines “H.264 best encoding practices” it’s a seminar and the guy goes into great detail, He recommends that 8-10 will be good for most users, after that you get very diminishing returns.

I use 8 and I will concede that you probably won’t tell much if any difference from 4. BUT the logic goes you might as well give YouTube as much info as possible (HD space is dirt cheap). From what I have read and seen in my own personal experiments going above 8-10 MBPS is usually pointless. I tried 20 once just to see if I could tell a difference… I couldn’t.

He also recommends variably bit rate, Now “variable” is usually “better” in the encoding world but in this situation I use constant bit rates because: I don’t care how big my videos are, they will be about 100-150 megs. Youtube will cut the bit rate so I want to give YouTube as much as possible to work with (within reason). I can say for certain my videos look noticeably better on my computer before YouTube re-encodes them but that’s just the facts of life for streaming video. Good thing is most people don’t care and are not going to wait for 720 anyway. I would bet the vast majority of plays are on the 480 setting. It’s the content and music that is going to hold an audience, not how sharp it is.


EDIT: Fixed typos and found the link: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2009-develop/encoding-best-practices-for-h264-video-using-flash/
It's long and boring but it has a TON of good information!
 
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