Re: How to encode for You Tube?

My recipe is:

Adobe media encoder from PPro CS3. h264 format, ntsc 1280x720 about 2 mbps CBR ( VBR takes too long and the issue is not about trying to make the file small enough to fit on a DVD) An 8 minute clip became a 140 mb mp4 file. took almost an hour to upload at night.

Example:






This was shot in HD, edited in SD for a DVD based presentation, and then up-rezzed from the timline of the same widescreen DV PPro project used for the DVD. simply by select the 1280x720 preset. looks pretty good I think. I believe the resulting file creaed by youtube is about 32 mb when playing teh HD version so I am not sure that encoding to h264 at a higher bit rate would be useful but woudl take longer to encode and uplaod.







was encoded at 6 mbps from a similar widescreen DV project and has a bit richer color. This 2:20 clip became a h264 export of 110 mb.



George Socka
BeachDigital
www.beachdigital.com