you-tube-boob: advice needed on how to upload

[richard p. t.]

I haven't ever uploaded to you tube and I can't seem to work out how to do it ...
Lets say i have an 8 minute .avi file that is about 10gig in its uncompressed state. I believe it has to be under 100meg to upload ... so should I compress it in virtual dub or something? Any suggestions regarding a suitable free codec I might use? do I also need to down res it to the 320 size? Would it be better to compress from a dv.avi file rather than my uncompressed .avi files?
any help would be appreciated.
cheers,
Richard

[Jim Carlile]

What's YouTube? I'm about at the same level....

[pinetar]

The specs that i found based on Quicktime were:

Compression:Photo-jpeg
30fps
quality-50%

SOUND
AAC 44,000
tbr 128k
compressor u 2.3

FILTER
letterbox-check it
sharpen-10-25%

Frame count-Custom
Output field-progressive

[mattias]

use the highest quality codec you got and resize to 320x240. mpeg-4 or wmv should work. last i uploaded something h.264 didn't work but it might now. the reason people recomment pjpeg is because it's the least compressed format, thus recompression is easier, but when you have as much as several minutes you really need to squeeze it to fit the 100mb, and then it won't do.

oh, denoising and edge sharpening works well too. there are some great ones in virtualdub.

/matt

[pinetar]

My note indicates that I used p'jpeg but then sent it to h264.

Image size suggested was 425x318.

[mattias]

that's the display size at youtube, but all clips are encoded as 320x240, so you might as well use that and get away with less compression.

/matt

[drsanchez]

Are you sold on YouTube or would you consider Blip.TV? Conceptually it's the same thing but Blip lets you upload any size.

[gianni1]

http://www.qik.com/ represents one of the newer streaming live content sites, uploading direct from your camera phone to their web server. Now you can point your camera phone at the Super 8 film off the projection screen and have that telecine session streamed live on the internet. Don't try this in your local digital cinema!

Gianni 8)

[steve hyde]

...I suggest learning about the "uploader"

start here:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/b ... swer=79983

The uploader allows files of up to 1GB thus higher fidelity possible.


Steve

[Patrick]

I'm new to Youtube as well. Once you've uploaded a video there, is it simple to delete / remove it afterwards? Ive got a feeling that it might take some experimentation with settings to get acceptable looking quality and there might be some deleting of clips that don't turn out looking all that good....

[timdrage]

Yeah it's really easy to delete.

I'm not 100% sure but I get the distinct impression that if you compress the video as a flash FLV movie rather than uploading a quicktime or mpg or whatever it doesn't re-compress? Or at least seems to look better in my experience.

[Angus]

The main attraction of youtube is that it is the online video sharing site that the vast majority of people are aware of and use.

Compress as little as you can, have a clean a picture as possible...maybe play around with your settings and find out what works best for you with the software you have.

I tried uploading mpeg-2 and it threw a wobbly at me last year, saying it was an unrecognised format. So I often send as mpeg-1.

[aj]

Being a non uploader of clips

But isn't blip.tv as used on super8.org the better service for quality minded people like posters here.

[timdrage]

stage6.divx.com is getting more popular too, and you can upload really high quality movies there.